Using links/html in php mail function

[ericthomson]

I am trying to use the php mail function and want to include links to a dynamic page, so I need to know how to do this...

 

Something like:

 

$id=$_POST['id'];
$mailto="email@address.com";
$mailsub="Subject";
$mailhead="From: other@address.com";
$mailbody="Your comment has been posted. You may view it by <a href='domain.com/page.php?id=".$id."'>clicking here</a>.";
mail($mailto, $mailsub, $mailbody, $mailhead);

 

I know this is not correct but I'm trying to figure out the actual way to do this...

[Psycho]

The problem you are facing is probably due to the fact that they email is being sent as plain text. You have two options that come to mind:

 

1. Just add the url in the output (i.e. not an anchor tag). The email readers (Outlook, gmail, etc.) *may* actually convert the URLs to clickable links on their own. This would be very easy to test.

 

2. To make your own clickable hyperlinks using an anchor tag you will want to send the emails as HTML emails. There are a lot of things you need to do when doing this. I suggest either looking up some tutorials or find a good class to handle this.

[ericthomson]

Yeah, I don't need links that bad...