Emailing links problem

[vinhbao]

I am having trouble get links to email when the Link Text does not match the link.

 

<a href=\"http://mysite.org/?upfriday.php&e=$email&v=$v&r=no\">I do not need a ride this Friday</a>

 

Just prints the text with no link, while:

 

<a href=\"http://mysite.org/?upfriday.php&e=$email&v=$v&r=no\">http://mysite.org/?upfriday.php&e=$email&v=$v&r=no</a>

 

Sends the link just fine.

 

Is there a workaround for this? Or is this just a limitation of PHP?

 

The thing is that I want to put 3 options in each email... each of which sends a different response to a script that will enter their response into the database. I'm afraid if the links are this long and non-descriptive, it will confuse my users.

 

Thanks for any help.

[Pikachu2000]

Are you sure you're sending an html formatted email? It sounds like the email is being sent in plain text, and the values in the tags are simply being suppressed by the email client.

[vinhbao]

Are you sure you're sending an html formatted email? It sounds like the email is being sent in plain text, and the values in the tags are simply being suppressed by the email client.

 

here is the relevant section: (If I'm not mistaken I copied this from you earlier today.... :-) I have learned a ton from you without even having to talk to you.

 

//set for HTML email

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'From: VNAG RIDES <rides@mysite.org>' . "\r\n";

 

if(mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers)) {

echo "Account is activated.";

} else {

echo "Something went wrong.";

}

 

[vinhbao]

I believe I have found the problem. The email I set up as a test was a webmail account that apparently doesn't support HTML mail. Well, the benefit of find this out is that I can make sure to take this into account for those who don't get HTML emails :-)

[Pikachu2000]

Glad you figured it out, even if it's not completely sorted . . .