[Pro] email a page to friend

I’m trying to figure out how to set up a means of bringing up the users email client to email the address of a page to someone from their own contact list by clicking on something like “Check this Out” text. This would call up an outgoing email with the website address already entered of the page they are on with something appropriate in the subject line and body already entered to direct attention to a specific thing like a video, picture or statement. I originally thought of feedback forms but then decided this wouldn’t work. Can anyone help me with this? The Example Link doesn’t have any attempts at this in it, it just shows my intent maybe.

http://www.mikebenoit.net


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http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/recommend.html

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That is it, now…how the heck can I do that with Freeway 6.1.2?


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This is my go-to email link tool - CHA's Mailto Code Generator

Fill it out, then press Create URL and copy or cut the code. Set your link
in Freeway Pro by pasting the code into the External pane of the Edit Link
window. Then publish.


Ernie Simpson

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http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/recommend.html

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Here’s mine, made in 2001 – one of my earlier PHP programming self-lessons.

http://freewaypro.com/mailto/

Walter

On Apr 2, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:

This is my go-to email link tool - CHA's Mailto Code Generator

Fill it out, then press Create URL and copy or cut the code. Set your link
in Freeway Pro by pasting the code into the External pane of the Edit Link
window. Then publish.


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http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/recommend.html

David


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It looks to like you did use feedback forms with this. Can this call up the users contact list for easy insertion of the address, can multiple addresses be included? Does the received email include the page address? How did you make the form pop-up? Sorry, I am pretty ignorant about this stuff.


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A web page form cannot usually access the system address book. Naturally, if you start typing something and auto-complete picks up on a frequently-used address, that’s going to happen, but it’s not using the system address book at all.

Walter

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It looks to like you did use feedback forms with this. Can this call up the users contact list for easy insertion of the address, can multiple addresses be included? Does the received email include the page address? How did you make the form pop-up? Sorry, I am pretty ignorant about this stuff.


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Mine uses a php script I came across some time ago.

There is some javascript to add to your page to create the link to the script that you host on your server - the script does the rest.

This is typically what you will receive in your email

John Doe saw Delta Design Site website and thought you might like to know about it:

URL: http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/recommend.html 

Additional Comments: 
------------------------------------ 
Great site I found 
------------------------------------

This message was sent from Delta Design Site (http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/recommend.html)

But if you tried it and put in your own email as the receiver you could see it for yourself.

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David, Ernie and Walter, Thank you for your input but I didn’t stress my ignorance level enough. Is there a step by step tutorial that will show me the steps for building this. I know close to zero html or php code and now realize that I may have jumped into the deep end as opposed to the shallow end. The links you three gave me seem like what I want to pop up when my link is picked but I don’t understand how to get to that place.
Do I in fact use feedback forms to accomplish this?


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Do I in fact use feedback forms to accomplish this?

For my method - No

There is a php file which you FTP to your server and a snippet of code to be added to your FW page using Insert>Markup Item.

If you want an example doc you will find my contact details on my People page of FWT.

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If you want to send a link to the current page, you’re not going to be able to do that with the PHP Feedback Form Action, or the Send Form Action, or any Action I can think of off the top of my head.

You can make a simple link, using one of the “Mailto Maker” systems noted in this thread to encode the syntax, and place that link on your page in Freeway. You may also want to do the same thing with JavaScript, which will have the added benefit that you don’t have to figure out the URL to the current page – you can just paste one line of code into each page, and it will automatically encode the current page’s URL into the link.

You can use a script like the one David noted, which runs in PHP on your server, and sends the mail message to your friend. This has the added benefit of working properly even if the visitor only ever uses Gmail in the browser, for example, and never bothered to configure Mail.app.

Walter

On Apr 2, 2014, at 5:09 PM, Gary Binkley wrote:

David, Ernie and Walter, Thank you for your input but I didn’t stress my ignorance level enough. Is there a step by step tutorial that will show me the steps for building this. I know close to zero html or php code and now realize that I may have jumped into the deep end as opposed to the shallow end. The links you three gave me seem like what I want to pop up when my link is picked but I don’t understand how to get to that place.
Do I in fact use feedback forms to accomplish this?


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All you need is a “mailto” link in your page. If you don’t want to go to the bother of typing in the address each time, you can do this with a blob of JavaScript.

  1. Type some text* on the page – maybe Tell A Friend or something like that. Highlight it, and apply a hyperlink to it with Command-K. Switch to the External tab, and in the URL field, type a single # mark (nothing else).
  2. While the Hyperlink dialog is still open, click the Extended button, then New, then enter the following name/value pair: onclick, tellafriend(). (If you’re reading this in mail, don’t type the back-ticks, they’re only there to format things nicely on the Web.)
  3. Open the Page / HTML Markup dialog, switch to the Before section, and paste in the following code.
<script type="text/javascript">
function tellafriend(){
	var url = 'mailto:?Subject=';
	url += escape('Check out this page: ' + window.title);
	url += '&Body=';
	url += escape(window.location.href);
	return window.location.href = url;
};
</script>

Walter

*This could also be a graphic button, if you want to do that. Makes no difference as long as you can create a link to the object.

On Apr 2, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Gary Binkley wrote:

I’m trying to figure out how to set up a means of bringing up the users email client to email the address of a page to someone from their own contact list by clicking on something like “Check this Out” text. This would call up an outgoing email with the website address already entered of the page they are on with something appropriate in the subject line and body already entered to direct attention to a specific thing like a video, picture or statement. I originally thought of feedback forms but then decided this wouldn’t work. Can anyone help me with this? The Example Link doesn’t have any attempts at this in it, it just shows my intent maybe.

http://www.mikebenoit.net


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