hi,
I need to add a "Send to a friend" link to my website.
When a user clicks on it, their e-mail software should open and the e-mail should be already filled.
Subject: Website Name Body: Link to website, short description
is that possible ? thanks
+2
A:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Website Name&body=Link to website, short description">Send me an email</a>
Is one way.
Tobiasopdenbrouw
2010-07-24 19:11:01
uhm, why is my Safari visiting a new page instead of sending an email ? And Firefox just not doing anything ? I've just copied pasted your code. thanks
Patrick
2010-07-24 19:58:24
Is this actually / still a problem?
Tobiasopdenbrouw
2010-07-24 20:07:34
yeah this snippet doesn't work in my browsers
Patrick
2010-07-25 06:36:50
From what I know, mailto shouldn't pose a problem in these browsers. Perhaps certain plug-/add-ins are causing the problem? And you could try Luc's comment (or sending something without spaces).
Tobiasopdenbrouw
2010-07-26 07:16:45
+1
A:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Feedback for
webdevelopersnotes.com&body=Link to website, short description">Send to a friend</a>
dejavu
2010-07-24 19:11:31
A:
I think that you are going to need a simple form to allow people to enter there friends email address. php mail perhaps (just in case people don't have a email program).
ellisgeek
2010-07-24 21:19:02
A:
Using protocol mailto and GET parameters is correct, but you also have to use the urlencoded version for strings:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Website+Name&body=Link+to+website%2C+short+description">Send me an email</a>
Spaces become "+" or "%20". PHP provides function urlencode() for this, python 2.x urllib.urlencode() of the urllib module, Perl has uri_escape of the URI::Escape package ... and so on.
Luc
2010-07-24 21:58:44