I was reading a blogger blog today and saw that they had a really neat button labeled “Add me as a MySpace friend!” and when I clicked on it, it took me directly to the ‘confirm you really want to be friends’ page, rather than the more common, but less useful, link to my profile. I’d love to have more MySpace friends, so if you can tell me how to make this sort of button, it’d be most appreciated!!
Hmmm…. you’re right, I’ve seen these sort of buttons too, I just never really thought about how they’d be accomplishing this bit of MySpace trickery. Fortunately, it’s not hard to figure out…
Go to your own MySpace profile by logging in, then clicking on “View My Profile” just below your picture:
Now that you’re viewing your profile as others see it, notice that right under your picture in this view is a link to “Add to Friends”. Here’s an example of this set of choices from my friend Cathie’s profile:
Here’s the magic: right-click on that link on your profile and choose “Copy Link” from the pop-up menu. Now, in your copy and paste buffer you have something like:
MyToken=949c8e1d-0fa6-4742-89e4-0c731ab3bb9e
(I’ve broken this into two lines for formatting purposes only)
Turns out that if you simply eliminate the last name=value field, the “MyToken” value, you have the URL needed for others to add you as a friend. Try it, click on this:
Now, let’s do a bit of a bonus step here! If you want to make this look like a standard HTML form button, you can unwrap the URL and create a succinct form:
<input type=”hidden” name=”fuseaction” value=”invite.addfriend_verify” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”friendID” value=”65108791″ />
<input type=”submit” value=”Add Me as a Friend!” />
</form>
Here’s how it’d look:
Cool, eh? Of course you can also just create a suitable graphic and use that as a button too, but that’s just a simple matter of graphic work! 🙂
Anyway, I hope that helps you create a similar link of your own. And while you’re experimenting with the steps on this page, don’t hesitate to actually add me as a MySpace friend too just as a test!
Thats useful! They have the facebook and twitter shortcut for it. About time myspace sorted one too! Though it is used a lot less these days.
Good job!!!!this is really helpful,I really appreciate.Thanks a lot.
thanks. I really appreciate it
ummh; how d0 i make a bottom that qoes 2 your photos on myspace .
Is there a WordPress plugin that can do all of this for us?
How do you get the display at the top of the myspace with the “ADD ME” and so forth? Like most of those bands do. I have an example that I can show you, minus the girlie extras. You can find it at: http://www.myspace.com/tiika.
Hi Dave, that’s a nice writeup, however I don’t think that will work in the MS 2.0? Would you be so kind and post the CSS code that does the same thing.
Much appreciated, thanks in advance
Mark
please comment me k!!!!=]
hey dave i was wondering how do u put a graffic on the add me button
Thanks for the info. I actually just created some buttons so if anyone is interested check out my blog.
i hope people add me to myspace
hey
can you tell me how to make one of those buttons as a “comment me” link that sends em to the post comment page..
thanks soo much
add him he’s cool
with nice music =]
thankyou this website hepled me alot but i think that there should be less writing and cut the sentenecs down beacsue the pageis a but long.
thank you=]
i wanted know how you add somebody as a friend?can somebody help me please?
hi,could u pls mail me and tell me how do i place a add me as a friend button or link in the about me section of my profile page?i want to place it in orkut.so pls do reply i need it.
send me amail and let me knew how you can connect me to a friend hat can allways make me happy
Umm…how do i make my own comment my pictures buttons?
i’ve been trying to make a “Comment me” button for a while using your coding but it keeps MESSING UP and its real irritating..
could you please help?
PLZ HELP
i have my comments HIDDEN and i cant get any body to comment me how do i get a commment icon
PLZ HELPP
Hey, I was wondering how can i make my own picture as a add me button on myspace.
Hey dave,
do you know the html for making a view pics, and view all friends button? can you please help me out? i been stuck on this forever now haha.
Hey Dave,
I did what you said but when i right clicked on the link i didnt see a “copy link” thing. All i saw was “copy” and “copy shortcut”. Is “copy shortcut” the same thing?
Tjanks,
Pablo
hey do you by any chance know how to get on myspace when it;s blocked?….
be my friend
can u help me verfly my myspace email now please.
thnx it workss!!!
i want to delet my verify email address
hey
i was wondering
how you get those links on myspace
were it has something like a friends name and when you click it it leads straight to their myspace without typing their URL or clicking a picture of them in a top friends?
hey this add button is ge=reat but can u make the comment button and a massage button too?
i really want some.
and how do i put say my own picture in the button?
maybe somthing that says COMMENT??
HELLPPPP
HOW DO I MAKE MY OWN ADD SIGN WITH A FRIEND PICTURE AND A MY SPACE CODE?
Dave, it looks good on a htm page..but it is not working when placing the code in a users message box…???
how can i add friends
How is it possible to create those buttons, but for Message Me and Block Me?
I’ve tried every conceivable combination of the above code and it seems to send me to some sort of “send an invite to your friend via email” thing. Obviously the one on this page still works, and I have one that is actually on my myspace page that works…however I can’t seem to get one that can be send via messages and/or bulletins. Any ideas?
can you help me verfiy my emil addres on myspace
i understand how to make the box, but is there a way i can create my own colors and stuff or size and what it says?
Hi Dave,
I just got going with myspace and your site is VERY helpful. Somehow I changed something in my code and the “add me” button is now in the top left corner and not below my writings anymore. Please help!
Thanks,
Andrea
alright..you know that add me button you explained?how do you do that..but for messages?
ugh i custom my page…but man i can’t seem to figure this out…everytime i click on “view mor pic” it says that my friend id is invalid or either cancelled??” i dont know what else to do…do you know why it sayin this…and what can i do
i just tried that and it’s not coming up with the button.. just comes up with the code
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=97289596
is there something wrong?
Hi Dave tried the add me to friends button thing…the button comes up in my myspace blogs when i paste it there BUT when people click on it they say they get a message saying invalid ID…
oh just incase.. I did change my id number for the one in the example above lol
umm im not very good at this HTML stuff so…
i was wondering what a ‘copy and paste buffer’ is??
i right click on the link and copy, but i dont know where to paste it =(
Sheree, sorry I didn’t see your question earlier! The text you specify in the “value” attribute of the submit tag is limited to just plain text, just as you can’t have HTML formatting or CSS in the TITLE tag of a page either (though some people sure try!)
i have an icon i designed with transparancy on my myspace if u want
pretty simple lol
but hey, i like cornflakes
Hi Dave,
Someone appeared on ‘my friends’ on myspace, I am sure that I didn’t confirm this person as a friend.Is this possible?
Regards,
Micky
That could happen if TypePad automatically puts “<br>” after each individual line, which messes up forms. Try making the entire form sequence one long line instead, Denise, and perhaps that’ll do the trick?
Hi Dave, I’ve been playing a lot with MySpace lately and blogged about your button, but when I tried adding it to my TypePad blog, in the body of the post (in the HTML field, not a text) the form somehow gets screwed up and ends up saying “submit query”. Maybe there’s too much conflicting HTML in a TypePad post?
Thanks for your consistently great tips!
Denise
help me verify myspace!!!
I tried it but HOW do you get the code into a message as an HTML button. When I do it it just puts the HTML code as text in the message?