I would suggest that you send the link to the page that you want them to
visit rather then the entire article.
The reason being is that you put a lot of work in to getting people to
your site to just give them the content, and if you have banners as a
revenue source and you send the entire article you will lose those
pageviews and click through rates.
Just a thought, let me know if you want to do it this way and I will
share with you what we have done.
Thank You
Brian Paulson
Sr. Web Developer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Pueblo Chieftain
www.chieftain.com
1-800-279-6397
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas D. Landmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] how to "email article to a friend"
At 20.06.2001 08:52, you wrote:
>You can query your database to extract those info, compose your email
>and
>use mail( ) function to send it.
that is _not_ a wise way to do it, you should include some form of
restrictions on how many
emails can be sent to a single account within X minutes for example.
Further you should
restrict by HTTP_REFERER (yep it's poor, but it's better than nothing)
so
that a automated
script can't use your email-article-to-a-friend function to "spam"
thousands of people without
any work...
There are quite a few considerations to take into account when writing a
email-article-to-a-friend
function, just to be on the safe side...
--
Andreas D Landmark / noXtension
Real Time, adj.:
Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there
and then.
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