TELL A FRIEND

   TELLFRIEND is a very simple, yet powerful script that
   you can use to help promote your site. It features:

    1. As many recipient fields as you would like.

    2. Text area entry for the reader to send a personal note
      with the e-mail.

    3. Automatic page recognition (FULL URL!) and automatic
      return to that page upon completion of the form.

    4. Domain validation to prevent "parasitic" use by others.

    5. Maintains a logfile of date/time, calling page and e-mail
      information.

                *** INSTALLATION TELLFRIEND.PL ***

    All of the configuration options are in the configuration
    section of the script. This is an easy one!

   To install this script on your site, just do the following.

    1. Edit the TELLFRIEND.PL file so that all of the configuration
      options are set properly for your server. In addition to
      the configuration section, check for the SERMONATOR SAYS!
      located through the script for even more customization notes.

    2. Upload the script to your cgi-bin/yabb2 directory as ASCII.
      (Please, ASCII NOT Binary!)

    3. Using telnet or your FTP program, chmod 755 TELLFRIEND.PL
      This means owner has read-write-execute permission, group
      and others can read-execute.

    4. If the script does not create the logfile, place an empty
      file with the name you are using in the directory. Then
      chmod 666 the file (read-write for all). The default reflog.txt
      is included in the cgi-bin/yabb2 folder.

   
              *** INSTALLATION TELL_A_FRIEND.MOD ***

    1. Use Boardmod or manually edit the required files.

    2. IMPORTANT!!! - In the mod file edit the next to last line which reads:

      if($username ne 'Guest') { $yymenu .= qq~<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/TellFriend.pl">$img{'tell'}</a>~; }
 
      To reflect the path to the URL of your domain!

        Added Xavier's suggestion below to mod file!

    3. Upload the modified files to your server:

     Admin/ModList.pl
     Variables/Menu0.def
     Variables/Menu1.def
     Variables/Menu2.def
      Sources/Subs.pl      

    4. Upload from the public_html directory:

     yabbfiles/ModImages/TellFriend/tell.png/gif
        (Jet Li has promised to make an updated button when he has time)



Sermonator

Thanks for the suggestion!

I changed the mod file and updated the zip file.

Hi , I always get Servererror 500 ! I chmoded the TellFirend to 755 and the reflog to 666 !

Hi , when call it with the browser , i also get the 500er Error  ???

Of Course , can you give me your adress ? ( This one in Boardmod , could not be the right one     )

Sermonator,

I have the same problem. Any ideas for a solution?

Many thanks

Daniel

even then people are still able to send spam another wayto prevent this is use the same measures as the posting so that they cant use another script to generate the emails. also a validation script so that the have to enter a code in to send the referal

Sermonator,

I had a sudden burst of inspiration today, and solved the reason for this mod not working on my forum! 

At the top of the '.pl' file was this line:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

I changed that line to:

#!/usr/bin/perl -- 

(adding the " --" at the end)
And hey presto! It now works

How easy would it be to modify this script, so that it takes the display name and e-mail address from the user's profile? I have already set it so that the button is only displayed to registered members (not guests), but I would like the added security (and ease for the users) of automatically completing the name and e-mail address fields from the user's profile.

Many thanks for this mod!

Daniel