61 replies to this topic

[fiat707]

Hey Guys,

Now you can get some info about someone who sends an email from your store to tell a "friend" regarding your product. Is there any idea in how to deal with the one that sends out unfavored or false messages? Or better is there any way to stop sending out such message from your store before it damages or ruins your business?  Thanks for sharing your tip.

KF

[DubZ28]

I am running MS1, with tell a friend 1.36 and when I add the code where Mattice said I get a parse error on the first line of code...

Anyone have any ideas?

[Lutroo]

Dude - thanks for this code!

Being a simple man, and also a beginner - I got confused with your blue addition, I thought it was speech marks rather than double apostrophe.

Any simple men like me should just copy the adjustment and paste it - works a treat then!

Again - I thank you!

[rmtagg]

Oh my!!!! I love it , works great and I like seeing what the item is too!!!! I am a newbie and I have to thank all you wonderful people for all your help and time you put into making things do able for us!

[boxtel]

rmtagg, on Jun 27 2005, 08:15 AM, said:

Oh my!!!! I love it , works great and I like seeing what the item is too!!!! I am a newbie and I have to thank all you wonderful people for all your help and time you put into making things do able for us!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I simply use the email queue which saves all send emails.

[webtoole]

Thank you Mattice for your wonderful addition.  Also thank everyone else that added and enhananced the code for this thread.  I really appreciate this forum and all of the members.  I was so overwhelmed just 2 weeks ago that I almost gave up on a huge web project for a client and was going to turn it down and find a job bartending or something (Just kidding I love building websites)  I knonw HTML pretty well, but php is way new to me.  With this forum, I not only didn't give up, but so far have made major advancements on the site, have a very happy client with my progress and am very happy about the situation now.  PEACE!

[FlyingKites]

boxtel, on Jun 27 2005, 12:41 AM, said:

I simply use the email queue which saves all send emails.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I just found this topic and it is great.  

Tell a Friend is usually used by sites to gather emails for mailing lists as well i.e. the recipient.  We are now starting to use more Tell A Friend type features on sites including an obvious share your wishlist (we have a couple more that are client specific)

Wouldn't it be better if this detail was put into a table in the database and there be a report?

Any thougths on that?

[hostify]

I tried this script. the tell a friend to recipient is working perfectly. But the email that send me a report has no message. Like this..

Here are the details of the T.A.F. submission by MY Name on Tue Jul 26 23:20:37 2005:

Recipient details:  -
Sender details: MY Name - myname@mysite.com
Sender ip address: 99.99.19.7
Personal message:



Product link: http://www.mysite.com/product_info.php?products_id=36

--------------------

you will notice that there is no text or message after the word
Personal message:

What is the problem? How should I fixed it?

[MYC267]

I coded this up myself quite some time ago and I found it quite useful. One thing that I found interesting was how much it actually wasn't being used. It doesn't actually get used all that much but those times it is used it's usually people telling their friends about the product in a good way. I don't think I have ever seen it being misused.

As an example here are a few examples of e-mails that I have received recently:





Here are the details of the Tell A Friend submission by Brett on Fri Jul 8 2:54:47 2005:

Sender details: Brett - ***********
Recipient details: ***********
Sender IP address: 61.88.36.65
Personal message:

Not sure if your still thinking it but i though i'd show this to you.
Product Name: ModYourCar Intercooler Kit - Nissan Skyline R33 GTS-T (RB25DET)
Product link: http://www.modyourcar.com.au/product_info....roducts_id=3710






Here are the details of the Tell A Friend submission by graham on Fri Aug 5 20:08:59 2005:

Sender details: graham - ***********
Recipient details: doug - ***********
Sender IP address: 144.137.253.81
Personal message:

this exhaust system will suit a gt4 :-)
Product Name: Greddy Power Extreme II Exhaust System - ECR/BNCR33
Product link: http://www.modyourcar.com.au/product_info....products_id=783







Here are the details of the Tell A Friend submission by dale on Sat Jul 30 6:03:09 2005:

Sender details: dale - ***********
Recipient details: sue - ***********
Sender IP address: 144.139.39.149
Personal message:

look, i found it
Product Name: 'F*UCK' Sticker (300mm long)
Product link: http://www.modyourcar.com.au/product_info....roducts_id=3333

Edited by ModYourCar, 06 August 2005 - 08:59 AM.

[TheMadHatter]

I just stumbled upon this mod...EXCELLENT!  Thanks for the code Mattice!!!

Cheers,
Travis

[Cowzor]

Excellent contrib, thanks

[Irin]

Cowzor, on Aug 13 2005, 02:13 AM, said:

Excellent contrib, thanks

Hello,

Thanks for this great contribution. I really love it. I have two questions though.
1. How can I add "Product Model" to the Report? I add

Quote

$report .= "\n\n" . 'Product Model: ' . $products_model = $product_info['products_model'];

but it not enough because the field is left blank in the Report

Quote

Product Model:

2. How can I make a Product link in the Report as well as in the email sent to a Friend clickable?

Thanks a lot.

[paq1200]

Irin, on Dec 4 2005, 12:57 AM, said:

Hello,

Thanks for this great contribution. I really love it. I have two questions though.
1. How can I add "Product Model" to the Report? I add
but it not enough because the field is left blank in the Report
2. How can I make a Product link in the Report as well as in the email sent to a Friend clickable?

Thanks a lot.

Did anyone ever figure out how to get the model number to show up in the report?

Thanks
Mike

[grunionfab]

What a great little bit of code.  It will be interested to see the results from this.  Thanks for the info!

[DoctorMason]

mattice, on Mar , 08:05 AM, said:

Tell A Friend Reporting
The Tell a Friend feature on osCommerce is a popular feature.

[/code]
Things to remember
Note that if you use MIME e-mail you should change all occurances of "n" to "<br>".
Furthermore you should obviously change the e-mail address used to reflect your own.
Regards,
Mattice
PS:

Thanks! Makes you wanna check your emails more often.

[HHHoagie]

I am getting double emails sent to my email address.  I'm still playing with my store and after installing the clever little code, I tried my email for the first time.  That when I noticed I was getting two emails sent to me each time.  I don't think it happened when I installed this code but could it be possible.  I don't know where to look to find the problem and I asked this question in the general board but did not get any replies.
Any suggestions please.
Bob

[Mrs Minx]

Hey All,

Mattice - THANK YOU ... it works and it is wonderful   I am running MS2 so I had to change 'your message' to 'message' to get a sneak preview of what the customer is saying to their mates.

Hostify, you need to do the same.  Its on line 109.

The only slight thing (and I can live with it) is the report that comes back, shows the product URL, but cannot click on it - NO LINK - so I have to paste it into my browser to see what they have looked at.

Anyone know how to get that link enabled please?

Thanks again for a great contribution!!

[eitai2001]

Hi.

Not sure if anyone already posted this ... too lazy to read, but here is an update with all the correct format for outlook express (and possibly other clients) ... so that when it sends you the e-mail, it creates enters and not little n's. Also, some people using later versions of oscommerce might get nothing where it says "Personal Message", because he used a variable named different to the oscommerce default ... or at least I think its default ... I never changed it ... here it is:

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// Mail a (silent) report to the web owner:



// get ip

if (getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')) {

     $ip=getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');

   } else {

     $ip=getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');

}



// build report

   $report  = 'Here are the details of the Tell A Friend submission by ' . $from_name . ' on ' . date("D M j G:i:s Y") . ':';

   $report .= "\n\n" . 'Recipient details: ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['friendname'] . ' - ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['friendemail'];

   $report .= "\n" . 'Sender details: ' . $from_name . ' - ' . $from_email_address;

   $report .= "\n" . 'Sender ip address: ' . $ip;

   $report .= "\n" . 'Personal message: ' . "\n\n" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['message'];

   $report .= "\n\n" . 'Product link: ' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO . '?products_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'];



// mail report

   tep_mail('Tell A Friend', 'itai@digitaladdiction.co.za', '[ REPORT ] Tell a Friend Usage', stripslashes($report), '', $from_email_address);

[GreenForce]

Mattice,

it was what I looking for,
Thanks,

[webhigh]

Does anyone have the complete Tell a friend page code for this I cn 't seem to get it working - I add the code after this line (which is around line 80) tep_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_body, $from_name, $from_email_address);


So that my code now looks like this :

      tep_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_body, $from_name, $from_email_address);
  // Mail a (silent) report to the web owner:



// get ip

if (getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')) {

     $ip=getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');

   } else {

     $ip=getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');

}



// build report

   $report  = 'Here are the details of the Ladyee Boutique Product Information sent to a friend. submission by ' . $from_name . ' on ' . date("D M j G:i:s Y") . ':';

   $report .= "nn" . 'Recipient details: ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['friendname'] . ' - ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['friendemail'];

   $report .= "n" . 'Sender details: ' . $from_name . ' - ' . $from_email_address;

   $report .= "n" . 'Sender ip address: ' . $ip;

   $report .= "n" . 'Personal message: ' . "nn" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['yourmessage'];

   $report .= "nn" . 'Product link: ' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO . '?products_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'];



// mail report

   tep_mail('Tell A Friend', 'webhigh@comcast.net', '[ REPORT ] Tell a Friend Usage', stripslashes($report), '', $from_email_address);



      $messageStack->add_session('header', sprintf(TEXT_EMAIL_SUCCESSFUL_SENT, $product_info['products_name'], tep_output_string_protected($to_name)), 'success');


Emails are sent but I don't get a copy.

Thanks