Tell a friend?
 

I'm positive I'm not the first to think of this one, but I don't see it anywhere. Is there a script/hack/mod/whatever that will allow members to tell friends about a thread?

You've seen them on other sites, you click on the "tell a friend" link, give it your e-mail and your friends, and it mails them the page and says "so and so" thought you might like to see this.

If you look at the bottom of this page you'll see a link for 'Email This Page to Someone'. This is a standard feature in vB and has been ever since I can remember.

<font size="4">D'oh! </font>

Sorry... Thanks for the reply.
Think I'll make it a bit more
noticable in my templates.

Ok, after looking around a bit, I don't feel quite as stupid for not noticing this as it only shows up in certain views.

In the default templates, at least the ones I have, it only shows up when you're viewing a thread. It doesn't show up on the forum or topic page views.

It doesn't look like you can just cut and paste it in either, since it wants a threadid. So is there a way to do it on the home page and the forum pages too?

If you put it in the forum home and display pages then how would it know which thread you want to send. It's in the thread view for a reason.

Why does it have to be only threads?

All it does is send them a link, why can't it send them a link to any of the pages in the forum, rather than just threads.

What if I want to tell them about the Code Hacks forum in general, and not this just thread? It could just as easily send them the url of https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisp...p?s=&forumid=3 It doesn't need a thread in that case.

Same for the home page, which is actually where I wanted to put it at first.

I guess you've got a "Tell a friend about this thread" option and I want a more generic "Tell a friend about this Page" option. :)

There's plenty of CGI scripts out there that will do just what I want, except I need to have it strip the session specific stuff. That's why I was looking for a hack here, instead of just using a generic tell a friend script.

That's true, but your original question was,

"Is there a script/hack/mod/whatever that will allow members to tell friends about a thread?"

That's what I was responding to. :)

OK, you're right. I did ask that, since I thought it would be tougher to do with threads.

So, we've establish VB can and does do that.

Now, what about non thread pages? Any options there?

On that subject you're right - a hack and template edits would be involved. Not being much of a hacker myself, we'll have to let someone else come up with a solution. Good luck!

That's what I was afraid of...

For now I've compromised on this. I used the "tell a friend" form from bignosebird.com and removed the place where it is supposed to automagically insert the page url. Instead it
simply inserts the url http://www.railroadforums.com/ no matter what page they call it from. (and of course I changed the wording to tell a friend about this site...)

So, no matter where they use it, the url won't break. Bad news is that it doesn't allow you to send a specific page, just the site in general.

Any cgi hackers out there know an easy way to strip the "S=" portion out of the url? If I can do that, I could make this script work.