Thank you all, but mail to link is a backup atleast. I was more looking for a way to use
email in a form right from the wiki. That doesnt require Email setup on the local PC.
What I want to ask then is: Is there a way to pass the pageURL variable to a hidden
field of an HTML form? That will help. Then it'll be like the Clickability links of
CNN.com, where pages can be emailed with the Link of the page already embedded in the
email form.
Brian is right though, this kind of thing could be used to spam, so a visual
confirmation mod would help, but atleast I'll be on my way if I can get the HTML form
thing going - along with passing the pageURL to the form ofcourse.
Eric
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JTAutry <jtautry(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Not sure what magic words work with each versions, but this external hyperlink works in
1.7.1:
[mailto:?subject=Check%20this%20page%20out&body=You%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20web%20page:%20{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}
Tell a friend]
Of course its still a bit sloppy not to have the email sent by the wiki's server, but
still, it works right NOW! :)
Taylor
----- Original Message ----
From: Sam Odio
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:04:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Feature: "Email this page"
Erik,
I would agree with Robert - ideally you make a special page and add
an "email user" button in your skin.
If you want to go the "hackish" route use a mailto link and define
the subject/body. Of the top of my head, something like this might
work:
You might be interested in this web page; text
('pageurl') ?>">Tell a friend
Let me know if you implement a SpecialPage - as I would be interested
in also doing that on
http://BluWiki.org
-s
On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:44 AM, Robert Leverington wrote:
That would require editing the skin files as all of
the links that
appear in the toolbox are found in the SkinName.php files, it might
also need a new special page depending on how it was implemented.
If it were like the Emailuser item then it could just be a special
page with options on it (you would need to be logged in though)
otherwise it could be a mailto: link however they are not very
friendly if you are using a public computer or use online web mail.
On 18/10/06, Eric K wrote:
"Email this page" is a very useful
feature that can boost the
traffic of a website. Any suggestions on how to enable this in the
Toolbox on the left for every page?
thanks
Eric
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