SEND INVITATION

[matrixindicator]

For my association of volunteers I like to include on the website something like "Send a invitation to a friend" as you seen on gmail. I like to have some ID how this works. I need a form, some validation. What do I send ? a URL + some text ? What PHP code is required ?

 

[jpadie]

you will need a database and an smtp gateway. It is possible to do without a database, but clumsy.

the php code and html can be broken down into the following modules:

1. send email module
2. create unique ID module
3. store unique ID module
4. form to capture name and email address of friend
5. module to validate form input.
6. module to store form input in a database
7. module to receive an incoming email validation and to process it.
8 module to update user record with appropriate status flag.

i'd probably build many of these into a class for the user entity, personally.