Link in PHP

[Jasper99]

Hey,

I don't have a lot of php experience so, please, I need your help:

 

I have a php-script:

 

<?php

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.

.

?>

 

In this script I want to show a link, something like:

 

<a href="http://www.domain.com/index.html">Hello</a>

 

How can I show a link in a php-script?

 

 

[hastishah]

Hi

    Just use echo "html tags here"...

 

<?php
echo '
<a href="http://www.domain.com/index.html">Hello</a>';

?>

 

 

[Yesideez]

If you're building links from the contents of variables you can use this:

echo '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$urltext.'</a>';

[Axeia]

Seeing as it's pretty much the most basic thing you can do I suspect you either don't know html, or php.

(Can't imagine anyone not knowing html while knowing php though).

 

So you may want to start off with reading some tutorials first, w3schools has excellent tutorials on html and php.

[Yesideez]

Agreed - that site Axeia has posted is where I started learning and it's a GREAT resource.

[Jasper99]

My be the problem is not soooo basic.

It still do not work. 

My problem:  It is a newsletter with a 'tell to a friend' option.  After filling out a 'tell to a friend' form an email is send to the 'friend' and it should show the link to the newsletter.  What can I do that the link will be shown in the email?  As I said the basic script is php.

 

Thanks.

[Yesideez]

Can you show the code please? Bit like asking a car mechanic to look at your car while it's still in your garage...

[Jasper99]

Here it is out of the garage. 

 

Here's the script (tellafriend.php):

 

<?php
if(count($_POST)) {

foreach(array('fmail1','fmail2','fmail3','email','name') as $key) $_POST[$key] = strip_tags($_POST[$key]);
if(!is_secure($_POST)) { die("Hackers begone");}

$emailto = "[email protected]"; 

$esubject = "Recommendation form submission"; 

$emailtext = "
$_POST[name] has used your recommendation form using an email address of $_POST[email]

The people the recommendation has been submitted to are:

$_POST[fmail1]
$_POST[fmail2]
$_POST[fmail3]

The page recommended:

$_POST[refurl]

";

@mail("$emailto", $esubject, $emailtext, "From: $_POST[email]");

$thankyoupage = "thankyou.htm"; 



$tsubject = "A web page recommendation from $_POST[name]";

$ttext = "
Hi,

$_POST[name], whose email address is $_POST[email] thought you may be interested in this web page. 

$_POST[refurl]

$_POST[name] has used our Tell-a-Friend form to send you this note.

We look forward to your visit!

";

@mail("$_POST[fmail1],$_POST[fmail2],$_POST[fmail3]", $tsubject, $ttext, "FROM: $_POST[email]");

# After submission, the thank you page
header("Location: $thankyoupage");
exit;

}

function is_secure($ar) {
$reg = "/(Content-Type|Bcc|MIME-Version|Content-Transfer-Encoding)/i";
if(!is_array($ar)) { return preg_match($reg,$ar);}
$incoming = array_values_recursive($ar);
foreach($incoming as $k=>$v) if(preg_match($reg,$v)) return false;
return true;
}

function array_values_recursive($array) {
$arrayValues = array();
foreach ($array as $key=>$value) {
if (is_scalar($value) || is_resource($value)) {
$arrayValues[] = $value;
$arrayValues[] = $key;
}
elseif (is_array($value)) {
$arrayValues[] = $key;
$arrayValues = array_merge($arrayValues, array_values_recursive($value));
}
}
return $arrayValues;
}

?>

 

Where the code is $_POST[refurl] should be shown the link:

 

The page recommended:

$_POST[refurl]

 

and

 

$_POST[name], whose email address is $_POST[email] thought you may be interested in this web page. 

$_POST[refurl]

$_POST[name] has used our Tell-a-Friend form to send you this note.

 

Hope you can help me.  Thanks.

[trq]

You completely forgot to mention that fact that your sending an email, not displaying a webpage. Emails are designed to be plain text though some email clients can display html.

 

You'll want to look at example #4 on the mail manual page.

[Yesideez]

You're wanting the link to appear as a link in an email?

 

Depends on how the client picks it up and translates the body - some will show the link as a link others will show it as text because you're sending a plain text email using PHP's mail() function.

 

A better way would be to download and install the great free PHPMailer script and send a proper HTML email.

 

I've actually stopped using PHP's mail() function and now use PHPMailer instead.

 

http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/

[Jasper99]

Yes, it is an email and not a Webpage, sure.

But in the code below it shows a link in the email (or at least the link as text).

 

The people the recommendation has been submitted to are:

$_POST[fmail1]
$_POST[fmail2]
$_POST[fmail3]

 

So it must be possible to show the link.  It don't have to be a variable.  I can change the code for each newsletter.

What do you think?

 

 

[trq]

I think you should actually read the previous replies. No one said it wasn't possible, two solutions have already been posted.

[Jasper99]

When I use the solution from hastishah it is still empty, it shows nothing in the email.

 

$_POST[fmail3]

The page recommended:

";

echo '<a href="http://www.domain.com/index.html">Hello</a>';

@mail("$emailto", $esubject, $emailtext, "From: $_POST[email]");

 

 

[hastishah]

Hi jasper

 

 

<?php
$emailtext = "
$_POST[name] has used your recommendation form using an email address of $_POST[email]

The people the recommendation has been submitted to are:

$_POST[fmail1]
$_POST[fmail2]
$_POST[fmail3]

The page recommended:
// if its url like domain.com than
<a href='$_POST[refurl]'>$_POST[refurl]</a>
// else if url like  <a href='link'>domain</a>
$_POST[refurl]

";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: '$_POST[email]' . "\r\n";

@mail($emailto, $esubject, $emailtext, $headers);
?>