Tell A Friend Extension

[partisanentity]

Hi all,

I installed the Tell A Friend extension.

Unfortunately at the moment it displays a rather ugly form above my pages.

What I would like to have instead is simply a button, that when clicked, will lead to the form.

Any idea if this is possible?

Attached a screenshot of what it currently looks like.

[ramjet]

Haven't used it, but you could place it as a content element on a hidden page - and create a button with a custom html module that links to the hidden page - and place this button wherever in your page layout.
Make sense to you?

[partisanentity]

Haven't used it, but you could place it as a content element on a hidden page - and create a button with a custom html module that links to the hidden page - and place this button wherever in your page layout.
Make sense to you?

The problem is that it would only send a referral to itself.

I have written my own simple php script that sends referral links.

It's working, but it's using the classic php mail() function, how could I make it hook into Contaos emailing capabilities?

[partisanentity]

To give you some more information:

I created two external php scripts:

1. file 1 gets the referring url and displays a form:

<?php
//get the referring url
$refurl = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]

//show the form
?>

<?php
echo 'The page you are recommending is:
 ';
echo $refurl . '

';
?>


<form id="tl_registration" action="http://www.server.com/index.php/pagerecsend.html" method="post">
<table>
<tr>

<td width="100px">Your Name*</td>

<td><input class="text mandatory" type="text" name="fsendname">
</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="100px">Recipient Name*</td>

<td><input class="text mandatory" type="text" name="fname">
</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="100px">Recipient Email*</td>

<td><input  class="text mandatory"type="text" name="femail">
</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><input type="hidden" name="furl" value="<?php echo $refurl ?>"></td>

<td align="right"><input class="pagerec_submit" type="submit" value="Send"></td>

</tr>

</table> 

</form>

2. file 2 takes the information and mails it:

<?php

//get all the form data
//strip any tags from the user entry
$to = strip_tags($_POST["femail"]);
$body = 'Hello '.strip_tags($_POST["fname"]).','." \r\n ".strip_tags($_POST["fsendname"]).' would like to recommend the following page to you:'. "\r\n".$_POST["furl"];
$subject = "Page Recommendation";

$header = 	'From: webmaster@server.com' . "\r\n" .
			'Reply-To: webmaster@server.com' . "\r\n" .
			'To: '. $to . "\r\n" .
			'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

//mail it all
 if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)) {
   echo("

Message successfully sent!</p>");
  } else {
   echo("

Message delivery failed...</p>");
  }
?>

I imported each php script on to a page in Contao.

It's all working.

Now what I would like to do instead of using mail() is hook into Contaos mail feature because the emails are getting stuck in my spam filter.

Any help or tips appreciated.

(I know it would be better to create a proper Contao module, but i dont know how to do that at this point).

[ramjet]

In a module it would work like this...
not sure about from imported script, but try.

$objEmail = new Email();
$objEmail->from = 
$objEmail->fromName =
$objEmail->subject =
$objEmail->text = if plain text
$objEmail->html = if html formatted
$objEmail->sendTo($therecipient);

//log acknowledgement if not failure, else log failure			
				if (!$objEmail->failures)

{

$this->log('Log Success Message', 'Where From', TL_GENERAL);
}else

{
$this->log('Log Failure Message', 'Where From', TL_ERROR);

}

[partisanentity]

Thanks, I tried that, but nothing happened.

I think I need to import the classes and libraries into my external php script?

But I am not sure how to do that.

Edit: sorry I was too quick, it did work, thank you!