Tell-a-Friend Scripts

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Tell-a-Friend Scripts

I'm planning to e-mail family travel tips to friends and associates and ask them to forward it as a way of getting out the word on my book, "Educational Travel on a Shoestring." After a message is forwarded a few times, however, it will have all those >> marks. Therefore, I'd like to post my tips on my website with a button to "Email this to a friend" to encourage people to e-mail a fresh copy and to come to my website. Where can I get a script to do that? -- Judith Allee, Dreams on a Shoestring

Some of the many scripts available include:

• TellDog.com Tell-a-Friend Script, available in both free (LE) and PRO versions. The PRO version ($9.95) is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. http://www.wilsonweb.com/afd/telldog.htm
• Chris Garrett's Send to a Friend Script, free. http://www.aspalliance.com/chrisg/default.asp?article=26
• JavaScript Kit's Tell-a-Friend Script, free. http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/tellafriend.shtml

Others can be found at the CGI Resource Index (http://cgi.resourceindex.com) or the PHP Resource Index (http://php.resourceindex.com) by searching on "Tell a Friend". Just be sure that you don't spam the e-mail addresses you receive by sending unwanted e-mail. It's okay when a person sends a single recommendation to her own friend, but not when you send 100 or 1,000 e-mails to people with whom you have neither a relationship nor e-mail permission.