Hey everyone. On a website that I am working on, I need to include a "email this website to a friend". How would I do this?

Easy way is to pick up a free or low cost "tell a friend" script. The php versions are a bit safer than html IMO.

Suggest you not use a 3rd party site solution.

As colbyt said, it would not be a good idea to use an off-site company. This brings up security risks with the form.

PHP would be a better solution, and I'm sure that you can pick up a script that does this for free somewhere.

I use JavaScript to do this and it's worked well for me. I never tried a php script, though. Those more savvy in programming would know if that's a better alternative.

Well, you could use Javascript to send the information to PHP. It would make it more appealing to use...but in the overall scheme of things I think that it would be best to run through a server-side language before being sent away to an email.

It depends it you want the mailserver to send it, and not the actualy user as in a user click send to a friend enters their email, their "friends" emails and submits and it does it. then you need to look at mail() function.

IF however you want the user to send it, then you jsut collect all the variables and make a link with the friend email and all the vars in the address...

I can help if your interested.

Got to be careful with mail-injection on the PHP particularly though. Either a CAPTCHA or a really clever I just heard of was an extra address field that no human could see but a bot would fill in. Google it.

There used to be a free script on hotscripts for this.