| e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #176996] |
Tue, 14 February 2012 23:14  |
mrc2323
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How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the
code below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's e-mail
client to create and send the e-mail request? I'm able to do this in
HTML code and file (e.g. href="mailto:..."), but it doesn't work in a
PHP file. Please advise. TIA
<div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail
address to: patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org.</div>
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| Re: e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #176997 is a reply to message #176996] |
Tue, 14 February 2012 23:32  |
Michael Fesser
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.oO(Mike Copeland)
> How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the
> code below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's e-mail
> client to create and send the e-mail request? I'm able to do this in
> HTML code and file (e.g. href="mailto:..."), but it doesn't work in a
> PHP file. Please advise. TIA
If you can do it with HTML, you can do it with PHP. There's no
difference, since PHP just outputs HTML.
> <div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
> update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail
> address to: patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org.</div>
This is pure HTML, but it doesn't contain a link, so it won't work as
expected. You have to use an 'a' element and a 'mailto' URL, as you've
already mentioned above.
Micha
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| Re: e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #176998 is a reply to message #176996] |
Tue, 14 February 2012 23:37 |
Beauregard T. Shagnas
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Mike Copeland wrote:
> How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the code
> below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's e-mail client
> to create and send the e-mail request? I'm able to do this in HTML code
> and file (e.g. href="mailto:..."), but it doesn't work in a PHP file.
> Please advise. TIA
>
> <div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
> update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail
> address to: patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org.</div>
Use the mailto.
<div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail address
to: <a
href='mailto:patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org'>patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org</
a>.</div>
I'd recommend using some method of obfuscating it though, to keep the
spammer bots from harvesting the address.
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-bts
-This space for rent, but the price is high
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| Re: e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #176999 is a reply to message #176998] |
Wed, 15 February 2012 04:13 |
mrc2323
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>> How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the code
>> below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's e-mail client
>> to create and send the e-mail request? I'm able to do this in HTML code
>> and file (e.g. href="mailto:..."), but it doesn't work in a PHP file.
>> Please advise. TIA
>>
>> <div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
>> update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail
>> address to: patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org.</div>
>
> Use the mailto.
>
> <div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
> update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail address
> to: <a
> href='mailto:patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org'>patsrun(at)pattillmanfoundation(dot)org</
> a>.</div>
>
> I'd recommend using some method of obfuscating it though, to keep the
> spammer bots from harvesting the address.
>
Perfect. Thanks you... 8<}}
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| Re: e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #177000 is a reply to message #176999] |
Wed, 15 February 2012 09:13 |
Denis McMahon
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:13:02 -0700, Mike Copeland wrote:
>>> How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the
>>> code below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's
>>> e-mail client to create and send the e-mail request?
It's very rare that this will send the email request, normally it will
open the user's email client and create a message ready to send.
There's no "proper" way for the web browser to activate the send button
in the users email client.
Just think how bad it would be if I could make you send any email content
I wanted to any recipient(s) I wanted from you when you clicked on a link
on my website.
Rgds
Denis McMahon
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| Re: e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #177001 is a reply to message #176999] |
Wed, 15 February 2012 10:46 |
Captain Paralytic
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On Feb 15, 4:13 am, mrc2...@cox.net (Mike Copeland) wrote:
>>> How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the code
>>> below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's e-mail client
>>> to create and send the e-mail request? I'm able to do this in HTML code
>>> and file (e.g. href="mailto:..."), but it doesn't work in a PHP file.
>>> Please advise. TIA
>
>>> <div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
>>> update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail
>>> address to: pats...@pattillmanfoundation.org.</div>
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>> Use the mailto.
>
>> <div class="eventInfo">To request a confirmation e-mail be resent or to
>> update a participant e-mail, send the participant name and e-mail address
>> to: <a
>> href='mailto:pats...@pattillmanfoundation.org'>pats...@pattillmanfoundation.org </
>> a>.</div>
>
>> I'd recommend using some method of obfuscating it though, to keep the
>> spammer bots from harvesting the address.
>
> Perfect. Thanks you... 8<}}
Considering that so many people nowadays do not use an email client,
instead using web mail, I would hardly call this Perfect since it will
fail so often.
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| Re: e-mail Hyperlink Code [message #177053 is a reply to message #176996] |
Sat, 18 February 2012 00:09 |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Mike Copeland wrote:
> How do I code the syntax to get the e-mail link at the end of the
> code below to (1) show it's a hyperlink and (2) call the user's e-mail
> client to create and send the e-mail request? I'm able to do this in
> HTML code and file (e.g. href="mailto:..."), but it doesn't work in a
> PHP file. Please advise. TIA
That is an ill-conceived approach as it presupposes the availability of an
e-mail client application. In a decade where Google Mail is widely used,
such a program to be installed *and* properly configured on the client
computer is even more improbable than it was in the previous decade, of
Internet cafés.
In any case, `mailto:' *does* work to that extent in a "PHP file" (you
should think of "PHP files" as scripts, as *computer programs* instead).
But it will never, anywhere, automatically submit the e-mail.
Use a form-mailer instead.
PointedEars
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When all you know is jQuery, every problem looks $(olvable).
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