too long links in mail()

[sigge]

Hi everyone...

How can I make a link shorter in an email message sent with mail()

I want the link to be www.mypage.com?var=123&var2=adsasd for example but I only want to display "click here" in the e-mail.

Please help me... 🙂

[devinemke]

send the [man]mail[/man] as HTML and use whatever you want for the link text

[sigge]

Hi

Thanks for the help but I would like to avoid sending the e-mail as HTML. Do you know a way how to send it as plain text instead of HTML

[n_wattam]

if its plain text then the link regardless of size will have to be viewed in its origonal format.

meaning you cant shorten the link down.

[sigge]

ok

shit! 🙂

Thanks anyway!

[n_wattam]

the only other way to get around this, is to design a data base which holds the origonal link with an ID number, then you provide a link to access that record and forward them. eg

www.mysite.com/redirect.php?id=1

table
id=1
link= www.mypage.com?var=123&var2=adsasd