At CommerceStreet.com, your web site visitors can simply:

1. click on a hyperlink or graphic,
2. enter their own and a friend's e-mail address, and
3. click "Send"

Our "Send To A Friend" program does the rest, e-mailing the friend a link to your web site. Your visitors can even include a message that gets sent with the link.

There are three different ways to implement CommerceStreet.com's "Send to a Friend" program.

1. The easiest way is to simply hyperlink to the program. You can hyperlink a graphic, hyperlink text, or both, as above. Hyperlink to the program at
   /cgi-sys/2aFriend.asp and our program does the rest.
   
   - It determines the page you hyperlinked from,
   - brings up a "Send to a Friend" input form,
   - e-mails the link, and
   - returns your visitor to the page they left.
   
   It's as easy as this: Send to a Friend
   
   

2. You can incorporate the "Send to a Friend" input form into a page on your web site so you can customize the page to match your web site.
   
   Simply name your page with an ".asp" extension, and insert this HTML where you want the form:
   
   <!-- include virtual="/cgi-sys/2aFriend.inc"-->
   
   A full functional Send to a Friend input form will appear in your web page.
   
   

3. You can create your own Send to a Friend form and post it to the
   /cgi-bin/SendTo.asp form handler.
   
   Two form fields are required, "Sender" and "SendTo".

Sender is the e-mail address of the person sending the link and

SendTo is the e-mail address of the person receiving the link.

Without both of these fields present and filled in, the form handler will return an error message.

The following fields are optional. They can be set with hidden fields, filled in (or left blank) by the respondent, or disregarded completely. Optional field names and descriptions are:

Body - the body of the e-mail message, normally comes from a comment field on the form.

Subject - the subject line of the e-mail message can be set with a hidden field or input buy the sender. If it is blank and there is a body message, the subject will take the first 24 characters of the body message.

ReferURL - This is the URL of the page you are referring. It is not required, meaning you can use this form handler for other purposes. The following hidden field on an asp page will fill in this field with the referring URL automatically:
<input type="hidden" name="ReferURL" value="<% =Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") %>">

NextURL - This is the URL of the page the sender is sent to after submitting the form. If it is not provided, the sender is left on a blank page. Use the same code as the ReferURL to send your user back to the page they left.

BCC - This is an e-mail address for a blind carbon copy of the message sent. It would normally be supplied with a hidden field to monitor Send To activity and messages.

Here is example html code for a custom 2aFriend.asp page.

1. Name the page with a .asp extension (instead of .html)

2. Copy the code from this page to a text editor such as notepad to convert if from the html format on this page to text format. 

3. Paste the text into the html of your web page.

4. Customize your web page was desired.

<!-- Start 2aFriend.asp code -->

<form method="POST" action="/cgi-sys/SendTo.asp">

<input type="hidden" name="NextURL" 
value="<% =Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") %>">

<input type="hidden" name="ReferURL" 
value="<% =Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") %>">

<p>E-MAIL A LINK TO: <%=Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")%></p>

<p>Your Name: 
<input type="text" name="SenderName" size="20"><br>
<p>Your E-Mail Address (required):
<input type="text" name="Sender" size="20"></p>

<p>Send to E-Mail Address (required):
<input type="text" name="SendTo" size="20"></p>

<p>Comments: (will be included in the e-mail with the link)<br>
<textarea rows="4" name="Body" cols="36"></textarea></p>

<input type="submit" value="Send" name="Send">

</form>

<!-- End 2aFriend.asp code -->