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Alias Tell-A-Friend
Documentation
How to install Alias Tell-A-Friend ?
After having downloaded the Alias Tell-A-Friend package
on your computer, unzip it, and transfer (using an FTP client) all files
under a directory of your choice on your server. It is very important to
transfer all files in ASCII mode.
That's it! Alias Tell-A-Friend is now installed.
How to call the Alias Tell-A-Friend script from your
pages ?
In other words, how to put Tell-A-Friend links or buttons
on your pages ? Clicking on these links or buttons will execute the Alias
Tell-A-Friend script which in turn will display the Tell-A-Friend form.
Example of code for a text link :
This will produce :
Click here
to Tell your Friends about this page
Example of code for a button link :
A better way to call the Alias Tell-A-Friend script
from your pages
In the above links examples, the Alias Tell-A-Friend
script will use the referring URL (i.e. the URL of the page that the
user is recommending) to tell their friends about. This referring URL
will be included in the emails sent to the friends.
This has a few problems associated with it as you are relying on the
user's web browser to pass some information that may or may not be
passed along. Most web browsers do pass this information (known as the
HTTP_REFERER header). However, this information is not always reliable.
Occasionally a website visitor will be behind a firewall which either
filters out HTTP_REFERER information, or even deliberately corrupts it.
Therefore we recommend to add
?link=http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html
to your Tell-A-Friend links.
in the above links replace alias_tell_a_friend.php with
alias_tell_a_friend.php?link=http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html
The friends will then get an email recommending to visit
http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html regardless of the referring
URL present in the HTTP_REFERER header.
Here is an example to recommend this page :
Click here
to Tell your Friends about this page
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