Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature?

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 46398
interpreted = N
texte = Pedro - thanks for your prompt response.I liked the site, and I've got the general idea.But I forgot to mention that HTML pages I'd like visitors to email to their friends are not dynamically-generated from a database (in the near future they will be). There're plain static.Does it matter? Should I go for your idea anyway?Sorry for asking this kind of maybe obvious questions - I've never done any emailing stuff in WebDNA before, and also was away from coding in WebDNA for a rather long time (I'm still in WebCat3).It doesn't mean, though, I'm not going to dig deep into reference docs and archives. TIA, Olegon 12/18/02 10:36 AM, Pedro Rivera at pedror@pssl.com wrote:> We use a form in a pop-up window and for the url I use > http://www.mysite.com/[thisurl] > > Give it a shot here: http://www.pssl.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oleg Kremiansky [mailto:olegK@ccohs.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:32 AM > To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com > Subject: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? > > > Hello everybody, > > How do you guys implement 'Email an article to a friend' feature used in > many sites these days? Specifically, how to process a web form with a > page's URL, receiver's address, sender's notes et el? That's where I'm > stuck. Could someone please share some of the best practices? > > As for me, I use JavaScript to do that, and it works fine cross-platform and > cross-browser, although I'm not sure if the client-side approach is better > option than server-side (WebCat) in this case. > > There must be a good reason why sites which using 'Email to a friend' > feature prefer server-side...They have web forms and Perl or PHP processing > files. But how the same can be achieved using WebDNA code? > > On the other hand, server-side approach assumes trips to a server which > seems to me kind of overkill for that type of task (again, maybe I'm wrong > here). > > I'm puzzled. > > Any possible help in clarifying it would be really appreciated. > > > Best Regards, > Oleg > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Oleg Kremiansky 2002)
  2. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Donovan 2002)
  3. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Donovan 2002)
  4. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Pedro Rivera 2002)
  5. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Alex McCombie 2002)
  6. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Pedro Rivera 2002)
  7. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Alex McCombie 2002)
  8. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Pedro Rivera 2002)
  9. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Oleg Kremiansky 2002)
  10. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Alex McCombie 2002)
  11. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Pedro Rivera 2002)
  12. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Oleg Kremiansky 2002)
  13. Re: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Pedro Rivera 2002)
  14. How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? (Oleg Kremiansky 2002)
Pedro - thanks for your prompt response.I liked the site, and I've got the general idea.But I forgot to mention that HTML pages I'd like visitors to email to their friends are not dynamically-generated from a database (in the near future they will be). There're plain static.Does it matter? Should I go for your idea anyway?Sorry for asking this kind of maybe obvious questions - I've never done any emailing stuff in WebDNA before, and also was away from coding in WebDNA for a rather long time (I'm still in WebCat3).It doesn't mean, though, I'm not going to dig deep into reference docs and archives. TIA, Olegon 12/18/02 10:36 AM, Pedro Rivera at pedror@pssl.com wrote:> We use a form in a pop-up window and for the url I use > http://www.mysite.com/[thisurl] > > Give it a shot here: http://www.pssl.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oleg Kremiansky [mailto:olegK@ccohs.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:32 AM > To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com > Subject: How to implement 'email to a friend' feature? > > > Hello everybody, > > How do you guys implement 'Email an article to a friend' feature used in > many sites these days? Specifically, how to process a web form with a > page's URL, receiver's address, sender's notes et el? That's where I'm > stuck. Could someone please share some of the best practices? > > As for me, I use JavaScript to do that, and it works fine cross-platform and > cross-browser, although I'm not sure if the client-side approach is better > option than server-side (WebCat) in this case. > > There must be a good reason why sites which using 'Email to a friend' > feature prefer server-side...They have web forms and Perl or PHP processing > files. But how the same can be achieved using WebDNA code? > > On the other hand, server-side approach assumes trips to a server which > seems to me kind of overkill for that type of task (again, maybe I'm wrong > here). > > I'm puzzled. > > Any possible help in clarifying it would be really appreciated. > > > Best Regards, > Oleg > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Oleg Kremiansky

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