Script for an Add-Free Tell-A-Friend Form

There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of Tell-A-Friend services on the internet that will do all this for you. But - there's one huge problem with these services.

They all serve annoying advertisements to you, to your visitors, but worst of all: they serve annoying ads to the people your visitors invite to your site.

I don't know about you, but I think that's a very poor way for people to hear about a website for the first time.

So I decided to make my own Add-Free tell-a-friend script. Then I decided to give it away. So, if you want a tell-a-friend service that won't drive people away - here you go!

Just put your website details (URL, e-mail address, etc.) in the places indicated and upload the files as instructed. There are three files to copy, just paste them into a text editor and make your changes.
Note:Your website host must support PHP for this thing to work.

Example In Action - Send yourself an email to see how it works from both sides.
Detailed instructions.

Part 1. The *php file. Edit, save as "tellafriend.php", and upload to your root folder. (Your root folder is the same folder where your homepage is stored. (Usually))
<?PHP # This part removes any html tags that # the sender may enter on the form strip_tags($friend1); strip_tags($friend2); strip_tags($friend3); strip_tags($senderemail); strip_tags($sendername); # This part sends you an email # every time this form is used $emailto = "PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE"; $esubject = "PUT YOUR EMAIL SUBJECT HERE"; # This is the body of the email sent to you # Feel free to edit the parts without a dollar sign $emailtext = " ".$sendername." has used your tell-a-friend form. Their email address is ".$senderemail." The people they have recommended are: ".$friend1." ".$friend2." ".$friend3." "; @mail("$emailto", $esubject, $emailtext, "From: $email"); $thankyoupage = "PUT YOUR THANKYOU PAGE URL HERE"; # This part sends mail to the recipients # Change the subject and text to suit yourself $tsubject = "You will like this site"; $ttext = " Hi, A friend of yours, ".$sendername.", whose email address is ".$senderemail." thought you may like to visit our website. ".$sendername." has used our Tell-a-Friend form to send you this email. PUT YOUR WEBSITE NAME AND DESCRIPTION HERE Our web address is : PUT YOUR URL HERE We don't save the names and email addresses from this tell-a-friend form, you have not been added to our list, your friend ".$sendername." just thought that you would like to visit our website. You may review our Privacy Policy here: URL FOR YOUR PRIVACY POLICY Thank You. YOUR NAME (and ".$sendername.") "; @mail("$friend1 $friend2 $friend3", $tsubject, $ttext, "FROM: $senderemail"); header("Location: $thankyoupage"); exit; ?>

Part 2. the script file. This part goes before the </head> tag on any page that has the form on it.
   <script language="javascript">  </script> 

Part 3. The form that your visitors use to tell their friends. Edit and paste between the <body> and </body> tags where you want it to show.
  <table width="400" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <h2>Please Tell Your Friends About Us</h2> <p>Fill in the boxes to send a note to your friends.</p> <form name="tellafriend" action="tellafriend.php" method="post" onsubmit="return checkfields()"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> *your name:</p> </td> <td> <input size="30" name="sendername" maxlength="45"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>*your email:</p> </td> <td> <input size="30" name="senderemail" maxlength="45"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"> <p>Enter your friend's email addresse(s):</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>*email 1:</p> </td> <td> <input size="25" name="friend1" maxlength="45"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>email 2:</p> </td> <td> <input size="25" name="friend2" maxlength="45"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>email 3:</p> </td> <td> <input size="25" name="friend3" maxlength="45"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"> <br> <input onclick="validate();" type="button" value="click here to send"> <br> <h2>Thank You!</h2> </form> </td> </tr> </table>