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Daria
10-17-2003, 10:38 AM
I tried one of your php codes for link referral posted in this old thread (http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=102238#post102238) , and found that if you do not enter "your name" "your email address", it does not deliver the message, yet, you get a "thank you" page. What gives? I mean, should there be a "sorry, you have not entered one of required fields" page, too?

Just a thought.
pyro
10-17-2003, 11:55 AM
Wow... that is some old, old code... Rather embarrassing, really :D

This version is much better, and forces users to enter their friends email (as that is the only field necessary for the script to function).
Daria
10-17-2003, 01:53 PM
much simpler, indeed!
Follow up question: why not put the requirement on "your email", too?
when you leave sender's email field blank, it automatically inserts that website into the sender adress @ mail server.

Some people may not understand that email came from a friend, but rather think it is a spam message and not even read it, or, better yet - complain to the abuse@blablaba....
pyro
10-17-2003, 02:10 PM
Simply enough done. I uploaded the new one in the post above.
Daria
10-17-2003, 02:24 PM
damn, you are fast!
:)

do you need the </td> in the refer.php for any reason, or is it just a forgotten chip?
pyro
10-17-2003, 02:58 PM
Yep, that's called doing too many things at once... ;) Thanks for pointing it out, and again, that updated version is above.
december
12-20-2003, 05:53 PM
Hi pyro,

Love this code, it was just what I needed. I do have one question though. Is it possible for the part that says:

Page you are sending: http://..........

to have the title of the page with a link rather than showing the url? Thanks.
pyro
12-20-2003, 07:38 PM
Yes, it would be possible.

Basically, what you will want to do is keep most of it the same, but read the referring URL (using file() (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php) or file_get_contents() (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php)) into a string (thus the latter function would be more appropriate if your server supports it) and use a simple regex to match the title. Then, you can print that out rather than the URL.