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Add a field to "Send to Friend"

Does anyone know how to add another field to "Send to Friend"?
In many online stores, you can add a personal message to the friend - perhaps telling why you think he/she might enjoy or be interested in that particular product.
My client would like to add "Add Personal Message" to the "send to a friend" but I have no idea how to start working on this.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you
Gita

Re: Add a field to "Send to Friend"

Just did this for my site running 4.3.1

In send_to_friend.php, add this code around line 78 below $mail_smarty->assign ("product", $product_info);

Code:

$mail_smarty->assign ("msg", $msg);

In skin1/customer/main/send_to_friend.tpl add a new row before the row containing the submit button:

Code:

    <tr>

      <td class="data-name"><label for="msg">Optional Message</label>:</td>

      <td></td>

      <td>

        <textarea id="msg" type="textarea" name="msg" /></textarea>

      </td>

    </tr>

Style and size the textarea however you like.

Lastly, in either your HTML or text email tpl file (I use skin1/mail/html/send2friend.tpl), add:

Code:

{if $msg}

$msg

<br/>

{/if}

Hope this helps. Kudos to Shan's old post for giving me the help I needed.