[RESOLVED] How to format email address in email to hide mailto:

[dmacman1962]

Hi all,

I have an email response for students that fill out a teachers quiz and I am trying to figure out how to format our email address in the email's signature to show.

[e-mail]

not

mailto:[e-mail]

In the email code I have it as...

$OurEmailAddress = "mailto:[e-mail]";

//Sending Email
$header = "From: ".$StudentsName;
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName;
$to = $TeachersEmail;
$message = "\n"
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.\n\n"
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate\n"
. "Time: $Time\n\n"
. "Sincerely,\n"
. "In The Classroom Media\n"
. $OurEmailAddress;

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]", "[e-mail]");

I tried to change...

$OurEmailAddress = "mailto:[e-mail]";

to

$OurEmailAddress = "[e-mail]";

...but then it is not a hyperlink that the end user can click on to send us an email.

I know that the email itself has that address, and they could just hit 'Reply' in their email program, but the site owners are sticklers for these kinds of details.

Thanks in advance,

Don

[duckduckgoose]

Try:

$OurEmailAddress = "[e-mail]"; 

//Sending Email 
$header = "From: ".$StudentsName; 
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName; 
$to = $TeachersEmail; 
$message = "\n" 
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.\n\n" 
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate\n" 
. "Time: $Time\n\n" 
. "Sincerely,\n" 
. "In The Classroom Media\n" 
. "mailto:".$OurEmailAddress; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]", "[e-mail]"); 

[dmacman1962]

No, that displays in the email as

mailto:[e-mail]

Thanks,

Don

[duckduckgoose]

Ok, try:

$OurEmailAddress = "[e-mail]"; 

//Sending Email 
$header = "From: ".$StudentsName; 
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName; 
$to = $TeachersEmail; 
$message = "\n" 
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.\n\n" 
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate\n" 
. "Time: $Time\n\n" 
. "Sincerely,\n" 
. "In The Classroom Media\n" 
. "<a href=\"mailto:$OurEmailAddress\">$OurEmailAddress</a>"; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]", "[e-mail]");

[dmacman1962]

That does not work either, I tried it before.

Here is what I get in the email...

Sincerely,
In The Classroom Media
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a>

It seems that the email (outlook in this case) does not parse the HTML for some reason???

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Don

[duckduckgoose]

Yes, you could try:

$OurEmailAddress = "[e-mail]"; 

//Sending Email 
$header = "From: ".$StudentsName; 
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName; 
$to = $TeachersEmail; 
$message = "\n" 
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.\n\n" 
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate\n" 
. "Time: $Time\n\n" 
. "Sincerely,\n" 
. "In The Classroom Media\n" 
. "$OurEmailAddress\n"; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]", "[e-mail]"); 

For some reason, Outlook won't hyperlink URLs if there's no space or return after it.

[dmacman1962]

Sorry DDG,

That just gives me...

[e-mail]

with no hyperlink (because we removed the mailto: )

I am stumped on this puppy.

Thanks,

Don

[duckduckgoose]

This might be obvious, but are you receiving your email in plain text or html format? This would be an Outlook setting...

[dmacman1962]

Hi ddg,

I was receiving these message as plain text, which is not set in Outlook, so the server is sending it that way. But when I open a message and set the format to HMTL, I still get either the mailto: in front of the mail address, or the email address just displays [e-mail]???

Thanks,

Don

[edit]

I read about the headers having to set the format to html, but in my code, I get an error if I use 6 parameters in the mail function (because of the last part that is used to set the 'reply' address to [e-mail]).

This line to be specific...

"From: [e-mail]", "[e-mail]"

//Sending Email
$header = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: html; ";
$header .= "charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "From: ".$StudentsName;
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName;
$to = $TeachersEmail;
$message = "\n"
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.\n\n"
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate\n"
. "Time: $Time\n\n"
. "Sincerely,\n"
. "In The Classroom Media\n"
. $OurEmailAddress; 

//mail($to, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ;

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]", "[e-mail]");

[edit]

If I put the headers back in I get this error...

Warning: mail() expects at most 5 parameters, 6 given in /home/inthecla/public_html/forms/isamerica1process2.php on line 147

[ClarkF1]

Can't you combine everything into one headers variable?

$header  = "From: [e-mail]\r\n" 
$header .= "Reply-To: [e-mail]\r\n"
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "From: ".$StudentsName; 

and then send the email using

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

I also think the Content Type and charset need to be on the same line from an example I saw at php.net

Having the From in $headers does work.

[dmacman1962]

Hi ClarkF1,

That got me close (although, I had to add a few semi-colons [;] to the ends of your headers, but I got it).

I am now getting an email with 2 HTML files attached, which is the message variable?

Here is my (and yours) code.

$header  = "From: [e-mail]\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: [e-mail]\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "From: ".$StudentsName;
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName;
$to = $TeachersEmail;
$message = "\n"
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.\n\n"
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate\n"
. "Time: $Time\n\n"
. "Sincerely,\n"
. "In The Classroom Media\n"
. $OurEmailAddress; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

And here is the contents of the Attachments,.

This email is to inform you that Don, has received a score of 33% on the Is America #One? test.

Date of test: 03-22-2006
Time: 7:56 AM

Sincerely,
In The Classroom Media
[e-mail]

Interesting, but I noticed that the email address in the attachements is still not a hyperlink (even though it does appear to be on this forum).

Getting close, any tweaks?

Thanks,

Don

[ClarkF1]

I changed the content type to text/html and added <html> </html> plus the <a> tags to the message as well as <br> tags for formatting

$header  = "From: [e-mail]\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: [e-mail]\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "From: ".$StudentsName;
$subject = "Is America #One? Online Student Test Results from ".$StudentsName;
$to = $TeachersEmail;
$message = "<br>"
. "This email is to inform you that " . $StudentsName . ", has received a score of " . $Score . "% on the ". $Subject . " test.<p>"
. "Date of test: $DisplayDate<br>"
. "Time: $Time<br>"
. "Sincerely,<br>"
. "In The Classroom Media<br>" 
. "<a href=\"mailto:$OurEmailAddress\">$OurEmailAddress</a>"
. "</html>";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); 

[dmacman1962]

Bingo!

That worked perfectly, even the email address is a hyperlink now.

I understand what you did and appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Don

[ClarkF1]

No worries.

I've only been learning PHP for two weeks. I got two dat files with my emails so I thought the problem was the content type.

Tried it out myself with different email addresses etc.

Glad I could help.