Need help in setting up "E-mail this page to a friend"

Hi! I need to allow our Web site visitors the option of e-mailing specific Web pages with articles, tips, etc. to themselves or friends. I created a small form where they can enter an e-mail address, and then I created a hidden field with the URL of the page to be sent. However, I don't know how to get the form to send the page on to the e-mail address. If you know what code I should be putting into any of the fields or any other steps I need to take, it would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, these $50 manuals never seem to have the answers I need. Thanks!

Gretchen

What language are you coding in?


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Thanks for responding! I was letting Dreamweaver do all of the coding for me since I'm still new at this. I inserted a form, a text box for their e-mail address, a hidden field with the URL of the Web page and a Submit button. I just don't know how to get the form to send the Web page to the e-mail address. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

"medea756" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Thanks for responding! I was letting Dreamweaver do all of the coding for me since I'm still new at this. I inserted a form, a text box for their e-mail address, a hidden field with the URL of the Web page and a Submit button. I just don't know how to get the form to send the Web page to the e-mail address. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Not being a code geek myself, I tried to do this just recently and
eventually had to trash the idea:

I went to www.hotscripts.com and tried almost every script available
since I was under the impression that you could send the page "as is",
i.e. a full html page with images, etc. However, the closest I could get
without breaking my back was some scripts that sent *the URL* to the
recipient. Not *the page*.

If that's sufficient, you'll probably still have to use your host's
"sendmail" function or at least be pretty well familiar with scripting.

Unless someone can tell how to do this with DW, I suggest that you go to
hotscripts.com and see what you can find...Be prepared to work with it a
while, though...

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