How about a quick and easy tell a friend program? I'mlooking for one now and as usuual the pickings are slim.

This makes like the third request for this that I've seen today. Might be on to something here...

Fantastic idea..!

Great idea

As of today I've officially added this to our developers project path. They'll see it and discuss it, then decide if it's something they can invest time on.

To be honest, a lot of the functionality is already there in Form Builder, so in my opinion, I think this would be a fairly simple app to create. I'm definitely hoping it becomes a reality; I can picture it catching on pretty quickly.

I too would like a Tell A Friend.

I was wondering if the form builder could be made to do it, hence my visit here and search.

I am going to subscribe to this thread and hopefully, a Tell A Friend will come our way soon :-)

SFX

PS - Reason I am looking for one (now, after many years of not bothering) is because of the blogosphere. TAF is the easiest and most effective way currently known to mankind to gain links there and exposure without going through a huge deal of extra effort.

PPS - Love my CoffeeCup software :-)

I also needed one. But I wanted it to where someone couldn't send spam from my site.
I've cobbled this together from looking at a number of javascript kits and how they did it.

So, this opens a new email message on their computer and they send the message to their friend(s).
I wanted to have more than just a single line... so I've now got 4 lines of the message and it inserts a hyperlink of my choosing...not just the page it's on.
You can go see the original javascript that referred to the page at javascriptkit.com.
My line4 is reserved for future use!
I use this for sending out important customer information (price lists, service bulletins, etc). Rather than have people forward it on, I insert a hyperlink to my \TellAFriend.html to make it easier for them to Tell a Friend.

This was a bit of a learning experience...I'm slowly getting better but I couldn't have done this without Trånn doing it first. I just expanded it and changed it to better fit my needs.

If you want to see it in action, goto Compass-Instruments.com\tellafriend.html or goto to javascriptkit.com
What I liked was I'm protected from being an open relay. If someone wants to use it to spam, then they have to do it from their email address.
================
<!-- Begin

//Script by Trånn: http://come.to/tronds
//Submitted to JavaScript Kit (http://javascriptkit.com)
//Visit http://javascriptkit.com for this script
//Modified by Bill Mammel

var initialsubj= "Compass Instruments - Signup Page"
var line1= 'Hi!%0AI thought you might want to signup to receive important CFR information from Compass Instruments.%0A'
var line2= 'Click below or copy and paste the link below into your Internet browser to go to their signup page.%0A'
var link= window.location.ref='http://www.Compass-Instruments.com/signup.html'
var line3= '%0AThis way Compass Instruments can quickly get CFR News and Service Bulletins and Parts Information to you.%0A'
var line4=""


var good;
function checkEmailAddress(field) {

var goodEmail = field.value.match(/\b(^(\S+@).+((\.com)|(\.net)|(\.edu)|(\.mil)|(\.gov)|(\.org)|(\.info)|(\.sex)|(\.biz)|(\.aero)|(\.coop)|(\.museum)|(\.name)|(\.pro)|(\..{2,2}))$)\b/gi);
if (goodEmail) {
good = true;
}
else {
alert('Please enter a valid address.');
field.focus();
field.select();
good = false;
}
}
u = window.location;
function mailThisUrl() {
good = false
checkEmailAddress(document.eMailer.email);
if (good) {

//window.location = "mailto:"+document.eMailer.email.value+"?subject="+initialsubj+"&body="+document.title+" "+u;
window.location = "mailto:"+document.eMailer.email.value+"?subject="+initialsubj+"&body="+line1+line2+link+line3+line4
}
}
// End -->


<!--
======
Then here's the form:
======
<form name="eMailer">
<P ALIGN="center" STYLE="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Tell a friend/coworker:
<input type="text" name="email" ; size="40" value="Enter your friend's email address here" onFocus="this.value=''" onMouseOver="window.status='Enter your friend's email address here'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status='';return true ">
<SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial;"> </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:9pt;">(Separate multiple addresses with a semicolon &quot;;&quot;)</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN="left" STYLE="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">
<input type="button" value="Write the email now" onMouseOver="window.status='Click to send an email (with this site address) to a friend! Enter email address above...';
return true" onMouseOut="window.status='';return true" onClick="mailThisUrl();">
</P>
</form>

Hi David R, this is why I love CoffeeCup. Looking forward to buying this application. Meanwhile, I'll noodle around with the form builder and see if I can turn it into a tel-a-friend module as a stand-in for now. Thanks again for your responsiveness!

Sincerely

Robb Auspitz

I would buy it!

I would love for this to be integrated into web form builder...which i just bought today! Really love it. No more form spam!