emailing a link using tags.

[jeff5656]

I am using the mail command in php.  I'm using a class call phpmailer.php.

 

I want to mail something that contains a link.

 

The wording of the email is stored in the database under a text field and I declare it as: $body.

 

If I put inside the body:

Dear john,  here is the link: test.com

 

then the email contains a hyperlink called test.com.

 

But it does not work if I put this in the text:

 

<a href='test.com'>CLICK ME</a>

 

In the email, you can see the <a href tag and click me is just text.

 

How do I get the email to show it like this:

 

tes.com

 

 

[MarPlo]

Hi,

If you use phpmailer class, use the MsgHTML() method to send the email, like this:

$mail->MsgHTML($body);                 // to send with HTML tags

[jeff5656]

I think it might be a different class, because here's how they want me to handle the body of the text:

$mail->Body     = "Dear Dr. $pd_lname,  \n $body ";

 

[jeff5656]

I figured it out. 

I had to use stripslashes after I retrieved it from the database.

And the class called for it to be used like this:

$mail->IsHTML(true);