Putting URL into php scripts to be e-mailed

pattiea

Ok...I'm not a programmer, but I have been able to modify scripts in the past to get them to look the way I want them to. So, I have this script that is basically an affiliate script, that I'm using just to replicate my site. My site does not sell anything direct.

In my welcome letter, which is sent as a e-mail to the affiliate, I want to be able to put the affiliates URL in there, and I can't for the life of me figure out how. I keep getting a parse error, unexpected T_STRING.

Please look at my script and tell me what I'm doing wrong. $domain, is my domain name, $ausername is the affiliate username.

The original code is:

 ."http://".$domain."/user/index.php\n\n"

I want it to be, or something similar:

."http://".$domain."/index.php?=".$ausername"

so that the output will be the complete URL of the affiliate, like this:
http://www.chocorich.com/index.php?=pattie

Any help would be appreciated.

Pattie

thorpe

."http://".$domain."/index.php?=".$ausername

or even easier;

."http://$domain/index.php?=$ausername"

pattiea

Thanks for the reply. I tried both suggestions, however, the error still exists.

I know someone out there knows how to do this,

Pattie

thorpe

show us more code then.

pattiea

Thanks for looking at this. This is the code from the beginning of the file to where it send the e-mail.

<? <?
  session_start();

  include "../affconfig.php";
  include "./lang/$language";
  include "./countries.php";

  $errorMsg = '';

  if($_POST['commited'] == 'yes')
  {
    // form was sent
    mysql_connect($server, $db_user, $db_pass)
      or die ("Database CONNECT Error (line 8)"); 

if($_POST['ausername'] == '')
  $errorMsg .= AFF_SI_UNAMEMISSING.'<br>'; 

// check if user doesnt exist already
$userid = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/', '', $_POST['ausername']); // protect against sql injection

$chk_user = mysql_db_query($database, "select refid from affiliates where refid='$userid'");
if(mysql_num_rows($chk_user) > 0)
{
  $errorMsg .= AFF_SI_USEREXISTS.'<br>'; 
  $_POST['ausername'] = '';
}

if($_POST['apassword'] == '')
  $errorMsg .= AFF_SI_PWDMISSING.'<br>';

if($_POST['aemail'] == '')
  $errorMsg .= AFF_SI_EMAILMISSING.'<br>';

if($errorMsg == '') 
{
  // save and send notification email
  $aemailbody = "Dear ".$_POST['afirstname'].",\n\nWelcome to the exciting ChocoRich Free Chocolate Exchange online marketing system.  With it you will be able to generate virtually unlimited leads who are asking you for a free sample of our healthy chocolate and our CD; How To Make A Fortune Giving Candy To Strangers.\nYour URL is 
      [SIZE=3][b] ."http://$domain/index.php?=$ausername"[/b][/SIZE]  \n\n
      ."When you get to your webpage you will see a \"\training\"\ link at the bottom of the page.  This will take you to a training page, which will tell you how to use the system.  If you have questions from there please email us at ".$_POST['emailinfo']."\n\n\n"
     ."Again, welcome to the ChocoRich Team,."\n\n
		 ."Greg Arnold"\n\n\n\n";

  mysql_db_query($database, "INSERT INTO affiliates VALUES ('".$_POST['ausername']."', '".$_POST['apassword']."', '".$_POST['acompany']."', '".$_POST['atitle']."', '".$_POST['afirstname']."', '".$_POST['alastname']."', '".$_POST['awebsite']."', '".$_POST['aemail']."', '".$_POST['apayable']."', '".$_POST['astreet']."', '".$_POST['atown']."', '".$_POST['acounty']."', '".$_POST['apostcode']."', '".$_POST['acountry']."', '".$_POST['aphone']."', '".$_POST['afax']."', '".$_POST['adate']."')") 
    or die(mysql_error()); 

  include "thankyou.php"; 

  mail($_POST['aemail'], "Welcome New Affiliate!", $aemailbody, "From:".$emailinfo."\nReply-To:".$emailinfo."\n"); 
  exit;
}     
  }

Again, Thanks in advance for your kind help.
Pattie

mpdolan_com

Try using this...

$aemailbody = "Dear $POST[afirstname],\n";
$aemailbody .= "Welcome to the exciting ChocoRich Free Chocolate Exchange online marketing system. ";
$aemailbody .= "With it you will be able to generate virtually unlimited leads who are asking you for ";
$aemailbody .= "a free sample of our healthy chocolate and our CD; How To Make A Fortune Giving Candy ";
$aemailbody .= "To Strangers.\nYour URL is [url]http://[/url]$domain/index.php?=$POST[ausername]. When you get to your ";
$aemailbody .= "webpage you will see a \"training\" link at the bottom of the page. This will take you ";
$aemailbody .= "to a training page, which will tell you how to use the system. If you have questions from ";
$aemailbody .= "there please email us at $_POST[emailinfo]\n\nAgain, welcome to the ChocoRich Team,\n\n\nGreg Arnold";

pattiea

Thank you so much. That seems to be working now.

Pattie