[emalen]

I'm trying to figure out how to implement a 'email photo to friend' button in a web site I'm designing. Does anyone know how to do this.. do i need to know a special programming language, do i need to find a javascript? or another type of script...

is there a web tutorial for this?

any help would be definitely appreciated!

thanks,
emalen

[Millennium]

You would need to create a CGI script of some kind. You can write CGI scripts in practically any language -C, C++, Perl, Python, AppleScript (if your server runs on a Mac), Unix shell scripting, and so on- but some are more suited to this task than others, and some of them will require your server to specifically support that language, and some places won't allow you to use CGI scripts at all.

I'm going to recommend, however, that you not do this. Unless you are extremely careful in how you design the script, spammers will find a way to hijack it for their own Nefarious Purposes (and they will find your site; they always do). Write some more basic scripts first, learn about secure mail form design, get your feet under you, and then go about it. Or have someone else write it for you; that's a perfectly viable route to take.

[fats277]

You don't need to use an unsafe CGI to accomplish this.

Research PHP.

It's a pretty easy language to learn, and you could do something basic like send a picture to a friend with it.

Tom

[york28]

I agree that PHP is the way to go. It's relatively easy to write code that takes an image, sesizes it, and attaches it to an email, assuming that you have the correct libraries installed and an email server.

You could also check these out.

I'm working on a photo hournal sofware that provides a web interface for uploading pictures, and then automatically makes thumbnails and enters the info into a database. So I'm sure adding an email capability to aalready written pages would be fairly easy.