I am trying to pass the Euro symbol i.e "€" and the "#" symbol, but they are not working, the euro symbol is looking like "€" and the "#" symbol is looking like "%40", I am using "urlencode()" function in PHP, but it doesn't seem to work, please let me know what could be wrong.
P.S I am transferring data from GET to another page then sending it in email, in email it is looking like the above.
EDIT: This is page 1:
$temps=urlencode($temps);
header('Location:http://someurl.com/mailx.php?data='.$temps);
This is page 2: Here I am emailing the data.
$mailmsg = $_GET['data'];
Output seen in my email inbox:
Email: name%40gmail.com
Notice that %40 instead of "#"?
You need urldecode(), read more here.
$var = "name%40gmail.com";
echo urldecode($var);
//output name#gmail.com
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We have a website with restricted access (only for exclusive members) coded in PHP.
On the Contact page we have a bunch of mailto links, for example:
address#domain.com
If a visitor clicks on one of the links, it does the usual stuff (opens a new email in Thunderbird with the To: field correctly filled in).
The problem is when a visitor right-clicks on one of the links, selects "Copy email address" and then pastes it in the To: field or wherever (even in a document), in which case the result would be:
Name%20SURNAME%20%3Caddress#domain.com%3E
instead of
Name SURNAME <address#domain.com>
I've been searching for a solution for hours and already tried rawurlencode(), urlencode() and other possible tricks, with absolutely no effect.
Can some of you please help me?
Here is the PHP code that generates the link:
<?php echo ''.$email.''; ?>
//where $email is a valid email address
//and $name is plain text (usually two words with a space character between)
I believe you're trying to do something that simply cannot be done.
I understand the idea but... it's not a thing.
I found no docs saying that you can put a name and enclose the email address in <>.
https://developer.mozilla.org/.../a#Creating_an_email_link
https://developer.mozilla.org/.../Creating_hyperlinks#E-mail_links
IETF RFC6068
You can of course do:
address#domain.com
I found this : https://stackoverflow.com/a/25854290/3376036.
It seems it's actually not supported but it usually works
I have a question about html decode.
I'm using WordPress' gravityforms plugin to manage forms. The formtitle includes the name of the website.
This week there was a bug in the special characters, the & sign was showing in the mailbox as & . I fixed this using html specialcharacters decode which was working great.
Later it appeared that there was a similar bug with the ' sign. Apparently html_specialcharacersdecode doesn't work with that one so I tried html_entities_decode as well, which also doesn't work for the ' sign.
Other signs are decoded perfectly such as < > () : -=+ so I don't really know what the problem is. I just want the ' to show as ' and not as '.
My code:
function before_email( $email ) {
$subject = htmlspecialchars_decode($email['subject']);
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject);
$email['subject'] = '$subject';
return $email;
}
My concrete question is: Is there something I'm missing here? Like maybe some function similar to the ones I've tried or is there something else going wrong?
Thanks!
You can use,
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject, ENT_QUOTES);
However, I would advise against HTML encoding before you insert it into the database. Just encode it when you output it. It's better just storing the raw data in the database.
I need to send a very long link using PHP. Known problem: the link is getting broken by the e-mail clients. I've tried it with plain/text or html mails, I put the url in brackets () as proposed in other threads- nothing helps. I know about url shorteners and the possibilty of solving this problem with databases, BUT!!! It IS possible to send links with hundreds of characters; e.g. Ebay does, Amazon does... the link for comfirming the registration from stackoverflow contains more than 250 characters, so?! Looking at the source code of these mails all lines break after 76 characters by default. I've tried to do the same with PHP wordwrap. Result; the source code looks identical, but my links are broken, their links are not! Any ideas? I'd be very glad for help, cause that bothers me!!!! :)
I could solve the problem on my own. First, the special characters of the link must be encoded (e.g. Thunderbird will now accept the encoded link just like this). Second, set a line-break by default after 76 characters. To avoid that the link gets broken or won't be recognized as a link by the client program anymore, each line needs to end on "=" in order to be recombined...
<?php
$url = 'http://domainxy.com/index.php';
$ending = '?var1=gsgsdgsfgdhfjfgj&var2=sdferewerwrr&var3=jghjghjkloozzzz&var4=ghajsldahskhdhriehfsjndfnjnjjfnjsnjdfhksö&var5=öäüöü';
$ending = utf8_encode($ending);
$ending = rawurlencode($ending);
$link = wordwrap( $url . $ending, 75, "=<br />\n", true );
echo $link;
?>
/*
Encodes and devides the link like this:
http://domainxy.com/index.php%3Fvar1%3Dgsgsdgsfgdhfjfgj%26var2%3Dsdferewerw=
rr%26var3%3Djghjghjkloozzzz%26var4%3Dghajsldahskhdhriehfsjndfnjnjjfnjsnjdfh=
ks%C3%B6%26var5%3D%C3%B6%C3%A4%C3%BC%C3%B6%C3%BC
*/
I wanted to make a mail function in php to let visitors create and activate a user account. For this I made a mail with a link which refers to the page that activates the account. Now the problem is that some people want to use characters that interfere with the code inside the email. for example: " " and ' '. I tried to escape these characters, but when such character appears, the link becomes inactive. The mail is sent, but the link is unclickable.
This is what the code looks like.
The variables are set in PHP
$New_user->Username = $db->real_escape_string($_POST['un']);
$RawUn = $_POST['un'];
$New_user->Password = $_POST['pw'];
$New_user->Email = $_POST['em'];
$CheckEmail = explode("#", $New_user->Email);
$New_user->Country = $_POST['cn'];
$New_user->City = $_POST['ct'];
//$NEW_USER IS AN OBJECT CREATED TO HOLD ACCOUNT INFORMATION SUCH AS USERNAME AND EMAIL
//$RAWUN IS A VARIABLE TO HAVE AN UNESCAPED VALUE OF THE USERNAME TO INSERT IN THE INPUT FIELD IF SOMETHING WENT WRONG
After checking the values, the mail is sent:
$message = array(
'Hello ' . $New_user->Username . ',<br/>',
'<br/>',
'Welcome to MakeAMemo.<br/>',
'To start working with your account you will have to activate it.<br/>',
'Just click on the link and you are ready to go.<br/>',
'Log in and check if it works. If not, please contact us(E-mail is on the website).<br/>',
'Your password: ' . $New_user->Password . '<br/>',
'<br/>',
'Kind regards,<br/>',
'<br/>',
'Administration');
$header = array(
'From: makeamemoofficial#gmail.com',
'Reply-To: makeamemoofficial#gmail.com',
'Content-type: text/html');
mail($New_user->Email,"MakeAMemo => New account",implode("\r\n", $message),implode("\r\n", $header));
I have made a connection to the datebase, so the escaping using $db->real_escape_string works fine.
The location of the link will be changed when the website is finished.
I checked if the code worked without the str_replace in the href. No succes. Neither I got succes trying to not escape the username.
The tags are invisible in the mail, so it is recognised. The link is not blocked, because it does work when I don't use special characters. When changing the double quotation marks into single quotation marks, you reverse the effect, which means that instead of " ", ' ' don't work.
I do not think the headers have something to do with it, because the link does work when using normal characters.
Any idea what the cause of my problem is?
Every answer is appreciated.
adear11: here is the generated tag:
link
"s avonds is an incorrect dutch word that contains some of the characters that need to be tested.
Rather than using str_replace in your email, you should use urlencode http://php.net/urlencode
This function is specifically for encoding strings for use in urls
As for the link not always working when it is formed properly, would be that the user isn't using HTML email.
Also, while not specific to your problem, this script is crazy insecure. You never ever ever need to use user supplied input ($_POST in your case) without sanitizing the input first. At a minimum, all of those assignments need to be run through htmlspecialchars.
Update
Given the trouble that you are having, I would consider not passing the actual data around in the URL. Rather, I would save the data to the DB and then generate a token to put in the url. If you generate a token with uniqid you won't have any trouble with these special characters because the string will be alphanumeric. Once the user clicks the link, just grab the data associated with the token and proceed as you would if the data was in the URL.
I'm using a mailto link to send e-mail with a php string variable inside it as follows:
'Would you like to E-mail stakeholders? <a class="emailLink" href="mailto:stakeholders?subject=Alert '.$ticket.'&body=Experience: %0D%0A'.$exp.'">Review and Send!</a><br><br>';
I discovered that in the e-mail client it prints it out like:
Experience:
Th Experience should contain:\r\n\r\nImpact\r\nHow to replicate\r\nComprehensive notes
So I tried:
$charactersToRemove = array("\r\n","\n","\r");
$replaceWith = "%0D%0A";
$exp = str_replace($charactersToRemove,$replaceWith,$exp);
Which doesn't seem to make a difference...Can someone tell me why? Thanks.
Can you post more of your code to show how $exp was assigned it's value?
I've edited out my answer until I can provide better help.
EDIT: Can you seriously try using "\r\n" with \" to escape "'s instead, just in case PHP is somehow localizing %0D$0A in your HTML output? What does the source of your page look like?