# Tell-a-friend script with custom template - ASP

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-a-friend-script-with-custom-template-asp/231591>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 6, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-a-friend-script-with-custom-template-asp/231591 "2007-07-06T00:31:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-a-friend-script-with-custom-template-asp/231591/1 "2007-07-06T00:31:30Z")

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Hi all,  
Iam trying to build a basic tell-a-friend script in ASP.One friend can input his name, email & his friend’s email in the form on the website & click Submit. Upon that, the process.asp file will process the request & it will send a message to the friend of the submitter saying that his friend has referred a website. The email that this friend receives will have the name & email of the sender in the email body along with a custom message. I wanted to create this custom message as a template in HTML which I can change any time & this changed version of the page will be what the receiver will receive after I change it. I tried many tutorials but in vain. Finally I arrived on [www.w3schools.com](http://www.w3schools.com) website. Now this one almost provided me with a solution I was looking for but not complete. I can send an HTML page using this command:  
myMail.CreateMHTMLBody “[http://www.w3schools.com/asp/](http://www.w3schools.com/asp/)”

So all I had to do was replace the link with mine like:  
myMail.CreateMHTMLBody “[http://www.mydomain.com/dir1/template.html](http://www.mydomain.com/dir1/template.html)”

That’s good. But now I wanted this template to even show the sender’s name  
& email which will be kind of dynamic & I don’t know how to return values  
from the form.

So I wanted the friend to receive a message like:  
Hi,  
Your friend (Sender’s name)  
With email (Sender’s email)  
has sent you an invitation. Visit this website [www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com)

where the sender’s name is the actual sender’s name & his email will be  
visible in Sender’s email area. Iam posting the process.asp form below. Any  
help to make this form work like I was thinking will be highly appreciated.  
Thanks in advance.

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\<%  
dim reqfrom  
dim reqbody  
dim reqbody2

```
                            'from email
                            reqfrom = Trim(Request.Form("sender_email"))                        
                                     'from name
                            reqbody = Trim(Request.Form("sender_name"))
                            'friend email
                            reqbody2 = Trim(Request.Form("receiver"))

                                                          If reqfrom="" OR reqbody2 = "" Then
                                                          Response.Redirect("http://www.mydomain.com")

                                                            Else
    
    

                            Set myMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
                            myMail.Subject="Hello!"
                            myMail.From= "myemail@mydomain.com"
                            myMail.To= reqbody2                        
                            
        myMail.CreateMHTMLBody = ("Hi,&lt;br&gt;Your friend:&nbsp;") + reqbody + ("&lt;br&gt;With email:&nbsp;") + reqfrom
+ ("http://www.mydomain.com/dir1/template.html")
                            
                                
                            myMail.Send
                            set myMail=nothing
                            
                            
                            
                            
                    
Response.Redirect("http://www.mydomain.com/thanks.html")

```

End If

```
                            %&gt;
```