Modifying Tell a Friend

[voltage]

I need help modifying the 'Tell a Friend' email page. I would like to remove the requirement to select a product, so that users can tell their friends about our site. We are going to implement a 'Refer a Friend' program and would also like to get cc:'d by such emails (not to the main store email, but an alternative such as 'referrals@ . . .'

Any ideas . . .

[Absolute]

If I was you, I would alter the "Tell A Friend" sidebox, so that it always appears. If it is on a product page, then show the Tell a Friend about the product, and if not, tell them about the store. This can be changed in includes/modules/sideboxes/tell_a_friend.php .

Next you will need to change the sending email script, which is found in includes/modules/pages/tell_a_friend/header.php

Here I would check if you have a product_id sent in, which is detected in line 19 of a zen 1.3. If not, by adding and else to line 34, then set the email up to send the Our Store email.

As for cc-ing yourself in, you can send yourself a copy of the email, by re-running the send email line of code.

Hope this gices you some ideas.

Absolute

[marcap]

If I was you, I would alter the "Tell A Friend" sidebox, so that it always appears. If it is on a product page, then show the Tell a Friend about the product, and if not, tell them about the store. This can be changed in includes/modules/sideboxes/tell_a_friend.php .

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Following your tip I got now the Tell a Friend sidebox on the main page but it doesn't work, it only works when I am in the product page as usual.

What I have to write in the tell_a_friend.php to make it works so a costumer can "tell a friend" ?

Thank you.

[marcap]

Hello again
is there someone that can post the code to add to the:

includes/modules/pages/tell_a_friend/header.php

in order to have TELL about the site in addiction to the Tell About this product or just Tell About the site ?

thanks you

[marcap]

Hello, Really need help !!

I altered the Tell_friend_php in order to have it in every page (10 days ago) then I changed my mind, tried to alter it again in order to have it only where it supposed to be. The problem now is that I forgot what I did (I very new to PHP), The box it is not in any page even if in the Layout Boxes Controller it is set to "ON". Here is the tell_a friend_php code just in case you are able that something is wrong:

// test if box should display
$show_tell_a_friend= false;
if (isset($_GET['product_id']) and zen_products_id_valid($_GET['product_id'])) {
if (!($_GET['main_page']==FILENAME_TELL_A_FRIEND)) $show_tell_a_friend = true;
}
if ($show_tell_a_friend == true) {
require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_tell_a_friend.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_tell_a_friend.php');
$title = BOX_HEADING_TELL_A_FRIEND;
$title_link = false;
require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
}

Thanks a lot

Mario