Hi all,

I was going to write my send to a friend form in PHP but the website I'm doing this for is being programmed in ASP.

Here's the situation...

I have a newsletter with an article. There is a "send to a friend" link on there that is directing the reader to a page with a form on it to send the URL they were just reading.

I'm writing the form page in XHTML. It has the basic fields plus the following hidden field...

<input type="hidden" name="URL" value="<%= Request.ServerVariables('HTTP_REFERER')%>" />

Now, I have to use single quotes in the value field or else I'll get an error on the HTML side.

After the reader puts in their friend's email, their own and a short message, I then have a "submit" button that calls send.asp that creates the email.

objCDO.Body = strFrom & " has recommended that you check out " _
& "this article in Atlas Plugged." _
& vbCrLf & VbCrLf & Request.Form("URL") _
& vbCrLf & VbCrLf & Request.Form("Message")

When I receive the email (I'm testing on me), what I'm getting is... the <%= Request.ServerVariables('HTTP_REFERER')%> in the message.

HELP!!! What am I doing wrong? I heard that some browsers don't support the ASP Http_referer. I tried this with IE6 and Mozilla and get the same results.

Thanks
Donna

sounds like the form page doesn't have a .asp extension.

Chris,

You are a genius. At 4am I looked up at the ceiling and said, I bet I didn't save the darn thing with an .asp extension.

Sure enough, I kept it as htm. I use FrontPage just for coding as I type everything (can't get into the Dreamweaver interface - it drives me nuts).

I guess I saved the page as .htm.

Thanks again. Boy do I feel like a dope. Believe me... I'll have better questions.

DonnaZ

heh we've all done that.

DonnaZ, a little piece of advice: what you may want to do is get a colour-coded text editor not named Fr*ntP*g* (yes, I know FP is WYSIWYG...it's one of the reasons I hate it).

Anyway, do that, and make sure your HTML and ASP colour templates use two different colour schemes. This will allow you to determine how the file is saved when you save it...if you see the HTML colour scheme, it's saved as HTML. The ASP scheme indicates that it's saved as ASP.

Easy, eh?