sending url in email

[derek mcgilvray]

Hi,
I'm emailing a login link to new users once they've registered (using GET variables). It seems best as I'm choosing a random password which I'm then forcing them to change of first visit.

My problem is that the url is not clear in the email - part is an active link while the rest is plain text. Is there a simple thing I'm missing that will make the whole url either active or inactive?

Hope you can help,

Derek

[jatar_k]

>> the url is not clear in the email

apologies, I am not totally sure what you mean.

[Veil]

Depends on the mailclient how the url is displayed.

Plain text should be working in every client though. Is it possible that there are spaces in the link?

[derek mcgilvray]

Sorry about not being so clear. There are no spaces in the url:

www.mysite.co.uk/login2.php?users_email=user
UP TO HERE is an active link,

@domain.com&users_pass=6de68362fa5f428dd4c3c37db4eb00f9
then from (@)it is inactive.

Any clues?

[Habtom]

<a href="domain.com/link.php"> Click Here to Activate </a>

Something like this should keep the whole thing as a link. I have come across the same problem, and the way it was solved was this way.

Hab

[derek mcgilvray]

That's what I would've thought, but in hotmail for example, the only part of the link that's active is the users email.
If I include html, head, body tags, etc hotmail inserts some javascript function [ol('***link***')] that doesn't work in itself but does if I remove the javascript (which I don't know how to do).

Another email client only displays the bit in between the *** as active (and even then it links to only [a href]).
Please ***www.mysite.co.uk/login.php?users_email=user***@domain.com&users_pass=6de68362fa5f428dd4c3c37db4eb00f9">click here to finalise registration.

Should it really be this complicated?

[alfaguru]

If you want to embed special characters in a URL, you must encode them first using urlencode().

so, "user%40example.com", not "[e-mail]"

PHP will automatically translate the characters to their correct form when the page is invoked.

[derek mcgilvray]

HA HA! I knew there had to be a simple explanation. Thanks for your help, I'll remember it for next time.