I have created the Template:Email page as per wikipedia (see bottom of email) and it works fine. I have a nice icon and the 'email to a friend' text to go along with it.
The one problem is that the creation of the email depends on a client side email client. Clicking on the link attempts to open Outlook etc.
What I would far prefer is a simple form which the user can input an email address and click on send. This would mean they can send from a machine with no email client.
Any ideas on whether this is feasible?
Thanks, Paul
Template:Email
[mailto:?subject={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20in%20{{SITENAME}}&body=Check%20out%20th e%20{{SITENAME}}%20page%20{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20at%20{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?ti tle={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%2526oldid={{REVISIONID}} {{{1|E-mail someone this page}}}]
You could create a special page which does this task. Robert.
On 29/03/07, Paul Coghlan pcoghlan@usa.net wrote:
I have created the Template:Email page as per wikipedia (see bottom of email) and it works fine. I have a nice icon and the 'email to a friend' text to go along with it.
The one problem is that the creation of the email depends on a client side email client. Clicking on the link attempts to open Outlook etc.
What I would far prefer is a simple form which the user can input an email address and click on send. This would mean they can send from a machine with no email client.
Any ideas on whether this is feasible?
Thanks, Paul
Template:Email
[mailto:?subject={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20in%20{{SITENAME}}&body=Check%20out%20th e%20{{SITENAME}}%20page%20{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20at%20{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?ti tle={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%2526oldid={{REVISIONID}} {{{1|E-mail someone this page}}}]
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I had assumed it would be a Special page but have no place to start from.
Is there something similar in existence I can look at as far as you know?
Thanks,
On 3/29/07 10:51 AM, "Robert Leverington" lcarsdata@googlemail.com wrote:
You could create a special page which does this task. Robert.
On 29/03/07, Paul Coghlan pcoghlan@usa.net wrote:
I have created the Template:Email page as per wikipedia (see bottom of email) and it works fine. I have a nice icon and the 'email to a friend' text to go along with it.
The one problem is that the creation of the email depends on a client side email client. Clicking on the link attempts to open Outlook etc.
What I would far prefer is a simple form which the user can input an email address and click on send. This would mean they can send from a machine with no email client.
Any ideas on whether this is feasible?
Thanks, Paul
Template:Email
[mailto:?subject={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20in%20{{SITENAME}}&body=Check%20out%20th e%20{{SITENAME}}%20page%20{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%20at%20{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?ti tle={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}%2526oldid={{REVISIONID}} {{{1|E-mail someone this page}}}]
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Paul Coghlan wrote :
I had assumed it would be a Special page but have no place to start from.
Is there something similar in existence I can look at as far as you know?
Yes, there is already an e-mail form implemented in mediawiki, however, it only allows user-to-user mailing. But you can easily modify the php code it to allow anonymous mailing and create an extension on this.
See : /includes/SpecialEmailuser.php
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