At 07:49 AM 3/11/01 , Richard Scott Crawford wrote:
>The first thing to do is to take two aspirin and lie down until the
>temptation to do this passes. It may be cool, but those of us who use
>Eudora or Pine for our e-mail don't read HTML-encoded mail, don't *want*
>to read HTML-encoded mail, and get really annoyed when it shows up in our
>mailboxes.
I generally agree, but there is...
ONE GOOD USE FOR HTML EMAIL: AOL DUMMIES.
REASON:
When I would send my email list a URL I needed them to go to, I would do it
in plain-text. ("Go to www.something.com and do something.")
And because 90% of the email programs out there automatically make it a
hyperlinked URL, there was no problem - *EXCEPT* the AOL people who would
email back stupid things like, "Sounds interesting! What's the web address?"
SOLUTION:
When you're sending email using PHP, try this:
if (strtolower(strstr($email, '@'))=="aol.com")
{
$link1 = '<a href="http://www.something.com/">www.something.com</a>';
$link2 = '<a href="http://www.otherthing.com/">www.otherthing.com</a>';
}
else
{
$link1 = 'www.something.com';
$link2 = 'www.otherthing.com';
}
$message = "Hey $firstname -
Check out this link!
" . $link1 . "
and also this one...
" . $link2 . "
Enoy!";
mail ($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
That way the AOL dummies get their hyperlinked HTML links, and all the cool
people of the world get the regular simple version.
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