Tell A Friend + Automatic Referral Code

Tell A Friend + Automatic Referral Code

Edited 1-13-01. JavaScript pop version available at:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...838#post212838

The JS version permits you to place the link anywhere you want on your board.

This version in this post returns your members to the thread they were reading using the same browser window.



Purpose: Permit members to promote your Board via email using their unique Referral code which is automatically inserted. Reward them for x number of referrals

Does not require any modifications to source code but does require hacking.

Requires 3 custom templates and a renamed and hacked version of sendtofriend.php which I have called referbbtofriend.php

1. Create 3 custom templates which are really a save of your current templates with a new name:

sendtofriend saved as referbbtofriend
email_sendtofriend saved as email_referbbtofriend
redirect_sentemail saved as redirect_referbbsentemail

2. Edit your custom templates. See zip for mine

3. Grab your copy of sendtofriend.php and save it as referbbtofriend.php

Edit referbbtofriend.php as follows and place in your forum root:

Change this line
< $templatesused = "sendtofriend,email_sendtofriend,redirect_sentemail";
--- To this line
> $templatesused = "referbbtofriend,email_referbbtofriend,redirect_referbbsentemail";
Change this line
<   eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("sendtofriend")."\");");
--- To This line
>   eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("referbbtofriend")."\");");
Change this line
<   eval("\$message = \"".gettemplate("email_sendtofriend",1,0)."\";");
--- To This line
>   eval("\$message = \"".gettemplate("email_referbbtofriend",1,0)."\";");
Change this line
<   eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_sentemail")."\",\"showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=".intval($threadid)."\");");
--- To This line
>   eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_referbbsentemail")."\",\"showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=".intval($threadid)."\");");

4. Insert this link in your Show Thread Templates >> showthread template

<a href="referbbtofriend.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid">Tell a friend about your Board</a>

Notes: Uses a redirect to return them to the thread they were reading.

Thoughts and comments welcome.

[Steve_S]

Thanks. A JavaScript Popup version coming tomorrow which might be a little "cleaner" for some folks and faster for the folks on a dial up.

[SirSteve]

great.... after I just installed this one!

[DelusionalMind]

nice

on my que for tomorrow

[Lesane]

Nice hack, thanks.

[Steve_S]

NEW: Tell A Friend + Automatic Referral Code via JavaScript Pop Up Instructions edited on 1-13-02 for new features.

NOTE: if you previously installed the "redirect" version but wan't to use the JS pop up version, please start over and download the zip in this post

Includes welcome and thank you by member name. Requires 4 custom templates.

1. Please download the .zip first which contains all the custom templates.

2. Grab your copy of sendtofriend.php and save it as referbbtofriend.php

Edit referbbtofriend.php as follows and place in your forum root:

Change this line
< $templatesused = "sendtofriend,email_sendtofriend,redirect_sentemail";
--- To this line
> $templatesused = "referbbtofriend_pop,email_referbbtofriend,referbbsentemail_thanks,";
Change this line
<   eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("sendtofriend")."\");");
--- To this line
>   eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("referbbtofriend_pop")."\");");
Change this line
<     eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_requiredfields")."\");");
--- To this line
>     eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_referbbtofriend")."\");");
Change this line
<   eval("\$message = \"".gettemplate("email_sendtofriend",1,0)."\";");
--- To this line
>   eval("\$message = \"".gettemplate("email_referbbtofriend",1,0)."\";");
Change this line
<   eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_sentemail")."\",\"showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=".intval($threadid)."\");");
--- To this line
>   eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("referbbsentemail_thanks")."\");");

REMOVE these 2 lines in referbbtofriend.php:

$threadid = verifyid("thread",$threadid);
$threadinfo=getthreadinfo($threadid);

2. Create the following 4 custom templates using the files which I have provided in the zip:

referbbtofriend_pop
error_referbbtofriend
email_referbbtofriend
referbbsentemail_thanks

Change my text in these templates to fit your site.

3. Insert the following JavaScript code anywhere on your Board you wish. Try header, footer, top of forums, user cp. Anywhere.

<!------NEW JS POP BELOW---->
<!-----begin pop up link---->
<script>

function openpopup(){
var popurl="referbbtofriend.php?s=$session[sessionhash]"
winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=525,")
}

</script>

<a href="javascript:openpopup()">Tell a friend about your board</a>

<!------end pop up link---><!------END NEW----->

NOTE: In the last line (href) of the JS code above remove the space between java script so it reads javascript

Edited 1-13-02 for new features.

Enjoy

[Steve_S]

The screen shot:

[SirSteve]

Pop-up works great BUT can you make it where JUST the e-mail box shows up and not the vB header/footer. As it is now, you could have achieved the same affect by just using a TARGET="_BLANK" in the <A HREF> tag. It would load even faster without all that unneeded stuff.

[Steve_S]

Thanks.

If you used my template from the last zip I posted today for the form you have NO header or fotter for the form. See the file in the zip named referbbtofriend_pop.txt

You need to download the zip I posted for the JS version.

About the only thing I couldn't get just the way I want it is the error if fields are left blank.

HTH

[SirSteve]

Oh, ok. I didn't see any different instructions for those that already had it installed so I just used the code above. Thanks. I am going to check it out now.

[SirSteve]

Ok better, but once you submit the e-mail, it takes you back to the thread in that same window and that page will not fit in there...