How do i invite people to my website (Like Facebook)

[ammar555]

I only have one quick question and I hope someone will direct me to the right path. As we all know Facebook is very growing website, and i have noticed something that they use. When someone registers on their website, they ask you to log in to your e-mail and they try to find your friends based on who you have in your list. Now i am want to create something similar to that, but i really don't know how to start? I am not even sure if i need php to do that. When someone registers on my website, I want to let them invite all of their friends by sending them a message automatically so that they could come and register on my website too  . How do i start?  What is the idea here? Will i need php to do that ? I would love any help!

[2levelsabove]

What you are looking for is a "PHP invite a friend script" and yes it could be written in PHP.

 

You can ask people for help in the forums to help you write one or you can search for it on the search engines.

 

Good luck!

 

 

[TeddyKiller]

You can use API's, which can be gotten by Windows Live, Yahoo, Google mail, and others, or you can simply have a textbox for your users friends email address('s) and use the mail() function to process it.

[ammar555]

What you are looking for is a "PHP invite a friend script" and yes it could be written in PHP.

 

You can ask people for help in the forums to help you write one or you can search for it on the search engines.

 

Good luck!

 

I will google that right now and thanks, if i have something i will come back

[ammar555]

You can use API's, which can be gotten by Windows Live, Yahoo, Google mail, and others, or you can simply have a textbox for your users friends email address('s) and use the mail() function to process it.

 

 

Is this what you mean?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx

 

Or is this something else? Do you know where i can get examples ?

[TeddyKiller]

Yes, that can help you. Bare in mind, it's confusing and you need atleast a VPS hosting. (Most shared hostings dont support all the features it needs) Hence why I've just stuck to an invite a friend script in PHP. It's pretty basic and rubbish, but I can post it through if you want?

[ammar555]

Yes, that can help you. Bare in mind, it's confusing and you need atleast a VPS hosting. (Most shared hostings dont support all the features it needs) Hence why I've just stuck to an invite a friend script in PHP. It's pretty basic and rubbish, but I can post it through if you want?

 

Yes please I would love that, at least i will get the idea

[TeddyKiller]

   
<?php
        if(isset($_POST['invite'])) {
      if(empty($_POST['recipent'])) { //Check if the recipent field in the form is empty
                       echo "You have left an empty field!"; 
                } else {
         $to = $_POST['recipent']; //Recipent field in the form - This is the email the invitation is going to
         $subject = "SUBJECT HERE."; //Subject
         $message  = "YOUR MESSAGE HERE"; //Message
         $header  = "From: YOUR-NAME <[email]YOUR-EMAIL@EMAIL.COM[/email]> " . "\r\n"; //Set the header of the message

         $send = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); //Put it all together and SEND!

         echo "Your invitations have been sent!"; //It's successful so display a message
      }      
   }
?>   
   <form action="" method="post"> 
   <span>Type in your friends emails seperated with a comma and click invite!</span><br />
   <input type="text" name="recipent" id="recipent" size="50" />
<input type="submit" name="invite" value="Invite!" />
   </form>

 

Replace.. "SUBJECT HERE", "YOUR MESSAGE HERE", "YOUR-NAME", "YOUR-EMAIL@EMAIL.COM", with the desired inputs.

 

This should work though.

 

edit: multiple email addresses can be used, if it's seperated.

[ammar555]

   
<?php
        if(isset($_POST['invite'])) {
      if(empty($_POST['recipent'])) { //Check if the recipent field in the form is empty
                       echo "You have left an empty field!"; 
                } else {
         $to = $_POST['recipent']; //Recipent field in the form - This is the email the invitation is going to
         $subject = "SUBJECT HERE."; //Subject
         $message  = "YOUR MESSAGE HERE"; //Message
         $header  = "From: YOUR-NAME <[email]YOUR-EMAIL@EMAIL.COM[/email]> " . "\r\n"; //Set the header of the message

         $send = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); //Put it all together and SEND!

         echo "Your invitations have been sent!"; //It's successful so display a message
      }      
   }
?>   
   <form action="" method="post"> 
   <span>Type in your friends emails seperated with a comma and click invite!</span><br />
   <input type="text" name="recipent" id="recipent" size="50" />
<input type="submit" name="invite" value="Invite!" />
   </form>

 

Replace.. "SUBJECT HERE", "YOUR MESSAGE HERE", "YOUR-NAME", "YOUR-EMAIL@EMAIL.COM", with the desired inputs.

 

This should work though.

 

edit: multiple email addresses can be used, if it's seperated.

 

It looks great, i will check it out and come back, ("YOUR MESSAGE HERE"), I still have to design the invitation message, and make it look like a website (HTML format). When I am done with the design, Do I copy the code and paste it instead of  ("YOUR MESSAGE HERE")

[TeddyKiller]

Has to be done inside the double quotes. Like an echo would be. You'll need to set the header so it allows HTML too.