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Tell-A-Friend Form Email Edits Last Update: 15th July, 2005
Article ID: 199

Introduction
Tell-A-Friend Form Edit
Add Store Owner Email to Form

Introduction

The Tell-A-Friend form email is sent when a customer wants to inform someone else about one of your products. When a product in the store is clicked the Tell-A-Friend form is activated and made available for use in the left column of the store. This form can be sent to the store owner when used by a customer to see who was notified.

Tell-A-Friend Form Edit

To edit the content of the email you need to look in the following file.

catalog/includes/languages/*your language*/tell_a_friend.php

The sections of the file that handle the content of the email are:




define('TEXT_EMAIL_SUCCESSFUL_SENT', 'Your email about <b>%s</b> has been successfully sent to <b>%s</b>.');

define('TEXT_EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

define('TEXT_EMAIL_INTRO', 'Hi %s!' . "nn" . 'Your friend, %s, thought that you would be interested in %s from %s.');

define('TEXT_EMAIL_LINK', 'To view the product click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your web browser:' . "nn" . '%s');

define('TEXT_EMAIL_SIGNATURE', 'Regards,' . "nn" . '%s');

Add Store Owner Email to Form

[note]To add the store owner to the form to receive an additional email when submitted open /catalog/tell_a_friend.php about line 80 after this code:



tep_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_body, $from_name, $from_email_address);



?>

Put this:



// Mail a (silent) report to the web owner: 



// get ip 

if (getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')) { 

$ip=getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'); 

} else { 

$ip=getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'); 

} 



// build report 

$report = 'Here are the details of the T.A.F. submission by ' . $from_name . ' on ' . date("D M j G:i:s Y") . ':'; 

$report .= "\n\n" . 'Recipient details: ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['friendname'] . ' - ' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['friendemail']; 

$report .= "\n" . 'Sender details: ' . $from_name . ' - ' . $from_email_address; 

$report .= "\n" . 'Sender ip address: ' . $ip; 

$report .= "\n" . 'Personal message: ' . "\n\n" . $HTTP_POST_VARS['yourmessage']; 

$report .= "\n\n" . 'Product link: ' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO . '?products_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']; 



// mail report 

tep_mail('Tell A Friend', 'you@youraddress.com', '[ REPORT ] Tell a Friend Usage', stripslashes($report), '', $from_email_address);

Change you@youraddress.com to your email address.
Note that if you use MIME e-mail you should change all occurances of "\n" to "<br>"