Email a friend

[Rich Atkins]

I've used the "email a friend" from P47 of the V7 "Advanced User's Guide", but when trying to send an email get a javascript error "unterminated script constant". Any thoughts on what went wrong?

(I've taken it back off the site - www.flashharrys.co.uk - so it's not visible or available for testing)

Also: I'd like the sender to be able to enter their email address. Can I capture both email sender and email recipient addresses?

Rich

[NormanRouxel]

I think I wrote this. The Advanced Guide has added extraneous new lines to make it fit the page. Most of the code has to be on one v e r y l o n g line

Enter e-mail address to tell a friend
<input type=text value="" size=40 onchange="var thisloc=location.href + '#NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR';if (this.value != '') {location.href='mailto:' + this.value + '?subject=Take%20a%20look%20at%20NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME&body=I%20saw%20' + thisloc + '%20and%20thought%20you%20would%20be%20interested.'}">
<input type=button value="OK">

This fires off the customers own e-mail program (E.g. Outlook Express) so the e-mail sent to the new contact will be identified correctly.

[Rich Atkins]

Thanks, Norman!

Quick, quality response. I'm grateful.

I have pasted the code you sent, and uploaded on www.flashharrys.co.uk -
As you predicted, this does indeed fire up the email client, ready for the viewer to send off.

Is there anyway to force a "space" after the hyperlink to the page anchor? At the moment the text is correct, but it needed the space after it in Outlook to trigger it as a hyperlink.

[NormanRouxel]

Not sure what's happening. I don't use Outlook. However that's a correctly formed URL at present and works as expected with Outlook Express.

If you want to tinker just add %20 where you want that space. Make sure that such changes don't break it on other more popular e-mail clients though.