Refer Friend

Refer Friend

For some reason, there is no "Refer a Friend" form standard in vB3.

This is a simple "Refer a Friend" form based on sendmessage.php.

All you need is to edit 1 PHP file - sendmessage.php, and add 1 template.

Instructions are in the HTML zipped below.

Below is a screenshot, as requested.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Double check the first edit.

Originally Posted by mholtum

Odd. I installed this on 3.0.5 and it works great. Installed it on a fresh install of 3.0.7 and get this error

fshfanatic, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
 
1: Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system? 
2: If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

works here: http://www.ravensrealm.net

doesnt work here: http://www.theflyfishingforum.com

any ideas?

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Double check the first edit.

Double Checked and got this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/theflyfi/public_html/forums/sendmessage.php on line 423

this is line 223

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If I use the php file from an earlier version of vb it works fine... :ermm:

[mholtum]

ok downloaded a fresh copy of the file from VB and re-edited the file. Worked... odd..

[rrr]

Installed on vB 3.0.7 and working great.

This should definitely be included in the next version of vB

[thesatman]

Great hack thanks.

1 small question After the refer a friend message is sent it just returns to the forum home page, Anyway to show "Message Sent" screen before going to the forum home page.

[Benj]

My Question !

can you send a refer email to more than one email at a time ?? maybe using

"email1@w00t.com,email2@w00t1.com"

???

If so

how hard would it be to have an addon that maybe opens up in a new window sayin import contact from hotmail (or yahoo) which looks at all the ticked email addresses (user imput)that are pulled from the loged in users hotmail / yahoo contact list and says invite these users. The addon would then look at the email address and thouse that are not all ready members ( the emails that are not in the users table of the datbase) and would add the email address to the email field of this form


Good idea i recon just a case of how hard it would be to make

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by thesatman

Great hack thanks.

1 small question After the refer a friend message is sent it just returns to the forum home page, Anyway to show "Message Sent" screen before going to the forum home page.

Sure, don't disable redirect pages in your Admin CP.

[Brandon Sheley]

the download link doesn't work for me :| so i can't install yet

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You mean you can not download the hack? Please try again, because it is working fine for me.

[kobescoresagain]

can you change it so that it doesn't make a delay? I have people wanting to use it but it delays a little to long. I would like to know the variable where I could adjust this. Thanks