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On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:03, PHP Tech wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am on a tight deadline here- I am trying to get a feature on a website I
> am creating where you click a link on a page which says 'email this page'
> and it takes you to a new page with a form asking you to enter your name,
> email and an email address and name of a person you would like to email the
> link of the page together with a message.
> 
> In theory this is easy to do- but what would be the best and secure way of
> doing it?
> 
> I thought by clicking the link this would be a form sending the url of the
> page to the next page and so I could then use $_GET to retrieve this.  I
> also thought of using $_SERVER and getting the referer web address. Then I
> could use this in a hidden field and use the mail() function to mail it off.
> 
> Aren't both these options open to abuse?  I was impressed with a feature I
> saw on this website- http://www.chesternovello.com/composer/606/main.html  -
> at the bottom of the page when you click on Email this page it takes you to
> another page without using a form, and it seems to use just html.  How do
> they do that?  I would really like to use a nice PHP script to do this.
> 
> Any ideas? Would be grateful for any thoughts.
> 
> I. Gray

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