Hyperlink in a PHP generated Email

gushy

OK guys, I'm sure this is probably really easy, but I can't get it to work (see below).

Basically I have an email that gets sent out when a user submits information to mysite. I want the email to contain a clickable link to the site.

How do I do it? I don't need attachments or anything fancy, just a plain html message.

-- Nick Gushlow
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My attempt so far sends the Content-Type header as part of the From field.

mail ($uemail_found,'New Call Logged',$email_message,'From: support\nContent-Type: text/html');

pnoeric

Nick - this is really more about the program the receiver is using to read the email, than about how you do it in PHP.

Some programs automatically scan emails for valid URLs and when they see them, make them blue (hot). Thus you don't do anything special but just type the URL in the email.

Other programs will manage some basic HTML tags in text, but very bare-bones. For those try sending the link bounded by the HTML anchor tag, i.e.:

$str = "And if you click today, you can get the handle poodle fluffer free by clicking <A HREF=http://www.dogfluff.com/>I want a big fluffy dog!</A>"

Some email clients, like AOL, require that the <A> tag sit on the first character of the line, so you'd throw a "\n" newline before the "<A>" (and know that it changes the formatting of your email message, of course).

Then there's the whole world of HTML-formatted email, which it beyond the scope of this reply, but you can find more in the code library and elsewhere.

good luck!

best,
Eric Mueller

gushy

Eric,

Thanks for that. I shall give it a whirl, and let you know how I get on.

The clients I'm trying to make work are MS Outlook / Outlook Express. Others need to work to, but those are my initial target.

So does this mean I should abandon my attempts at trying to make the email MIME formatted?

Nick.

pnoeric

Nick, I think most-- if not all-- configurations of MS Outlook + Outlook Express will automatically highlight URLs. Some quick testing should reveal the best way to proceed!

best,
Eric Mueller