I use php to send an email reseting a password.
<?php session_start(); ?>
<?php
if($_POST['UserEmail'] == '')
{
$_SESSION['error']['UserEmail'] = "E-mail is required.";
}
else
{
//whether the UserEmail format is correct
if(preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([a-zA-Z0-9._-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)+$/", $_POST['UserEmail']))
{
//if it has the correct format whether the UserEmail has already exist
$UserEmail= $_POST['UserEmail'];
$to = $UserEmail;
$subject = "Forgotten Password";
$header = "Change your password using the link below";
$message = "http://www.yourname.com/confirm.php?UserEmail=$UserEmail&5832572895237532897523875";
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
}
}
?>
I want the $message to be a clickable link how do i do this.
This is using WAMPs default mailing system.
cheers
I Have tried adding an anchor tag but that sends the anchor aswell not just the clickable link using $Message="<a href=http://www.yourname.com/confirm.php?UserEmail=James@email.co.uk&5832572895237532897523875>click here</a>" Doesnt work either any suggestions
Fix Found basically it was fine just leaving the link in without any anchor tags.
$message="http://www.sitename.com/this.php?Username=email@email.com&432941482401284"
will display a clickable link inside your email.
Sorry for that
use anchor tag to make it clickable and assing it to $message:-
$message= "<a href='http://www.yourname.com/confirm.php?UserEmail=".$UserEmail."&5832572895237532897523875'>Click Here</a>";
$header is the mail-header containing non-display-values. for example:
From: Your Name <you@example.com>
Reply-To: Max Muster <max@example.com>
( are the escaped characters) There you also set the content-type:
Content-Type: text/html; encoding: utf-8
With this you can use html to design your mail and use <a>-tags for your links.
More Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Message_Header (Or if you are German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Header_(E-Mail) )
Everything, that does not belong to the header described in that links, has to be in the message-content, so in your $message. That includes your "click on that link below".
For address-checking take a look at http://php.net/manual/de/function.filter-var.php