Link sharing my forum via email [SOLVED]

[Bpoetic]

A member has asked me how she may share our forum with her friends. I told her to just email them with the site URL . . . but it set me wishing for a more user friendly method. Is there a script that would open a new window with an email client ready with a link and a brief intro to my forum? If so, how do I go about doing that?

Could it be incorporated into a navbar button? If not - where would I place something like this?

Thanks, Bpoetic

[zakir321]

Hm... something similar is already available through the "Actions!" menu to the top right of each forum and topic. It basically does what you are searching for I think, though I don't think it's possible to customize the preset-text there.

For a navigation bar entry, you can use this one as redirection URL:

http://bpoetry24-7.com/tell_friend.forum

If you want to place a button at your portal, a forum description or anywhere else, use this html:

<a href="http://bpoetry24-7.com/tell_friend.forum"><img src="IMAGE LINK" /></a>

[Bpoetic]

LAST EDIT:

I found that if we use the direct link: http://bpoetry24-7.com/tell_friend.forum rather than the html version - it is a working nav button! Thank you, Sunny!! bev



Sunny . . . you're the best thing since the lightbulb! Thank you so very much. bev

EDIT:

You're still the best thing since the lightbulb - BUT, I'm having a bit of a problem with the nav button.

Look at this:


The icon is not clickable - but the red X is. When you click it, a pop up window goes to a 404 *Page Not Found* page. Then I'm taken to my Portal. I never get the email-a-friend option.

Here's your html: <a href="http://bpoetry24-7.com/tell_friend.forum"><img src="IMAGE LINK" /></a>


Here's the icon pic url: Tell A Friend

What can we do? Thank you so much, Sunny! bev

[zakir321]

Did you maybe use the whole html code as the redirection URL?

If you create a Nav Link, use the following data for the fields:

Menu: Something to identify, will not show up on the forum
Picture: The URL to your image. https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img122/175/tellafriendvg6.png
Text: This is the text that will appear for that button if you hover your mouse
Redirection URL: Just the target link. http://bpoetry24-7.com/tell_friend.forum

That way it should work.

~ Sunny