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How can I create a MySpace Message Me button?I read your article about how to create a nice MySpace "add me" button on my Web site and am wondering, is it possible to create those buttons, but for Message Me and Block Me? It certainly seems to me that it should be doable, though I'm a bit baffled why you would want to have a nice button for "block me". I mean, do you find that your friends, or, um, former friends, are blocking you that frequently that you'd want a button for that particular task available? To quote the MySpace help, "Blocked users can still view your profile, but they cannot send you a message or communicate with you. If you do not want them to see your profile, you can adjust your privacy settings." I'll assume you have some reason to make it easy for people to want to block you. One thing to correct here in the beginning is that the button you want to create is "Block User", not "Block Me", though once you are almost done tweaking the code I'll show shortly, you'll be able to change the label as desired. The first step, once you've logged in to your MySpace account, is to click on "Profile" in your MySpace Control Panel: ![]() The next page you see will have a lot of edit boxes, but the link you want is on the top right, the View My Profile link: ![]() Now you should be viewing your profile as someone else would see it, and just below your picture should be a "Contacting" box, like this: ![]() (well, your contact box might not be quite the same as mine. Quite likely it has a white background rather than my fancy profile. The good news is that you can learn how to customize your profile too with the myspace help offered throughout this site) Just about there. The next step is to right click (or, if you're a Mac user, option-click) on the "Send Message" link and choose Copy Link. The URL you get will look something like this: http://messaging.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.message&friendID=65108791&
MyToken=965145b3-9e04-467e-8d72-a6a72ed5ab95 You can axe out the junk after "MyToken=", so in fact the trimmed URL looks like this: http://messaging.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.message&friendID=65108791
While we're here, scribble down or otherwise save your friendID. Mine, as you can see here, is 65108791. To produce a button like what I showed in my earlier article you need to unwrap the link and make it a little HTML form. Or just let me do the work! Here's what you need: <form method="get" action="http://messaging.myspace.com/index.cfm">
<input type="hidden" name="fuseaction" value="mail.message" /> <input type="hidden" name="friendID" value="65108791" /> <input type="submit" value="Message Me!" /> </form> Simply substitute your own friendID value and paste the modified code onto your Web page, Facebook profile, or whereever else you might like. Now, back to that Block User link. Turns out that this exact same technique will work fine and the code above is almost exactly what you need. Instead of it invoking "mail.message" as the "fuseaction", however, we need "block.BlockUser": <form method="get" action="http://messaging.myspace.com/index.cfm">
<input type="hidden" name="fuseaction" value="block.BlockUser" /> <input type="hidden" name="friendID" value="65108791" /> <input type="submit" value="Block Me!" /> </form> That's all there is to it. Good luck with your tweaks. Curious about the other options? Looks like fuseaction could also be "invite.addfriend_verify", "groups.addtogroup", "mail.forward", "user.addToFavorite" and RateImage.UserRating". Hack away. :-) Oh, and if you'd like, I invite you to check out my own MySpace profile too.
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Tagged: html, myspace, social networking Previous: In Google's Gmail, how do I email an individual on a list? Next: How do I disable the IR infrared port on my Mac? Reader Comments To Date: 11tieran said, on January 25, 2008 7:33 AM:
hey, like, ive copied the code for the messgeing and block....
tieran julia said, on May 24, 2008 6:27 PM:
the same problem as tieran can you send me the code too please lauryn sedillo said, on June 17, 2008 7:26 PM:
hey, like, ive copied the code for the messgeing and block....
thanks. Kaitlin said, on August 4, 2008 3:44 PM:
wanna talk? nera said, on September 13, 2008 9:52 PM:
i have the same question as what tieran wrote: hey, like, ive copied the code for the messgeing and block....
tieran Jadeeeeee; said, on October 21, 2008 1:23 PM:
send mehh tha comment linkkk tooo ! banky03 said, on December 27, 2008 11:10 AM:
add some chat to my mail box Michelle DeLaGarza said, on March 20, 2009 2:09 PM:
How do I create a button for my customers to ask me a question on my blog space? nicole said, on April 10, 2009 2:05 PM:
how do you make just a link?? joe said, on November 5, 2010 10:22 PM:
can a button be put on my space to send the viewer to your eBay store?
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