Can I still keep the formatting? When I added the Content-type: text/html to the header last night, the link worked but my formatting did not. Everything was just a long string.
Thanks, Eddie -----Original Message----- From: Rick Emery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: mail() that should be: http://www.aircharterunited.com\pages\activate_account.php?clientid=$uname (Grrr...that's what I get for using copy/paste from original email) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Edward Peloke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: mail() Actually, you don't need to send this as an html <A> hyperlink. Simply using: http:\\www.aircharterunited.com\pages\activate_account.php?clientid=$uname Should work; it does for me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Peloke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:18 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: mail() I changed this and it works fine but I now lose my formating. It doesn't seem to recognize the \n breaks. Am I asking for to much? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Mannakee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: mail() You need to set the correct header type: Content-type: text/html otherwise it defaults to: Content-type: text/plain Mike "Edward Peloke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello all, > > I am using the following code but when I view the sent e-mail (in my yahoo > account) the link info is all plain text. I see the <a tag and everything. > How do I create it as a link? I know I can send them because I have done it > before in my yahoo e-mail, just never through php and mail(). > > Thanks, > Eddie > > $mailcontent="Thank you for registering with AirCharterUnited \n" > ."Your Username is $uname and your password is $pword > \n" > ."Please click the following link to activate your > account \n" > ."<a > href='http:\\www.aircharterunited.com\pages\activate_account.php?clientid=$u > name'>Activate Account</a>"; > mail($email,'Thanks',$mailcontent,"From: > aircharterunited.com"); > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
