<br /> in mailto

[keyboard]

Hey everyone,

How can you put a line break into a mailto???
Like if you wanted a message to go over a couple of lines?

Here's my code


<a href="mailto:email@email.com?subject=Itunes Account
&body=
<?php
echo "BALANCE";

echo "name1 ";
echo '$';
echo $row3['balance'];
echo "name2";
echo '$';
echo $row2['balance'];
?>
">Send me an email</a>

[molendijk]

Should be \n, not<br>.
But I'm not a php-er.
===
Arie Molendijk.

[bluewalrus]

Why not use a form and send the message using PHP's mail function? Once using that apply the html header, and use nl2br.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[keyboard]

<a href="mailto:email@email.com?subject=Itunes Account
&body=
<?php
echo "BALANCE";

echo "name1 ";
echo '$';
echo $row3['balance'];
echo "\n";
echo "name2";
echo '$';
echo $row2['balance'];
?>
">Send me an email</a>


I tried that but it still dosen't work.
I can't use mail() as I am going to run this script on localhost(WAMP)

[bluewalrus]

You'll need to convert them encode them to be passed through the url and encode them to be converted from \n to <br />. This also assumes the users mail client supports HTML. Something like


<?php
$test = 'asdfa
asdf
asdf
zxcv';
echo urlencode(nl2br($test));
?>

[keyboard]

I tried that


<a href="mailto:email@email.com?subject=Subject
&body=
<?php
$test = 'asdfa
asdf
asdf
zxcv';
echo urlencode(nl2br($test));
?>


">Send me an email</a>

and it printed this

Asdfa+<Br+/>
Asdf+<Br+/>
Asdf+<Br+/>
Zxcv


Am I doing it right???

[djr33]

You'll actually probably need the following to make sure it doesn't conflict with the HTML:
echo htmlspecialchars(urlencode(nl2br($test)));

But, more or less, yes, that's correct. It's not important what it prints on the page (well, it is, but only indirectly). Instead, you need to see how it works after you click the link-- those + symbols should probably become spaces, if everything works right.

Realistically, the entire approach is a problem: not that many people use email links to send messages (many use gmail, hotmail, yahoo or something else on the web, so they don't have a default mail program to open automatically), so that won't help, and if anything it will make it harder for those who don't use it to cut/paste the email to write you a message.

If you're just doing this for fun, that's fine, but otherwise I'd recommend either just using the email address (and they can type the message if needed), or the best idea is to use PHP to send the message as part of your website.

If you do choose to use this format, I say at least ignore the body and just add a subject. That might (sometimes) be helpful, but the rest just won't work enough that it's worth your time to solve this.

[keyboard]

Realistically, the entire approach is a problem: not that many people use email links to send messages (many use gmail, hotmail, yahoo or something else on the web, so they don't have a default mail program to open automatically), so that won't help, and if anything it will make it harder for those who don't use it to cut/paste the email to write you a message.

If you're just doing this for fun, that's fine, but otherwise I'd recommend either just using the email address (and they can type the message if needed), or the best idea is to use PHP to send the message as part of your website.


Thanks for your opinion djr33. I'm using this at home(wamp) so it won't be avalible to the public so thats not a problem.




I tried this


<a href="mailto:email@email.com?subject=Subject
&body=
<?php
$test = 'asdfa
asdf
asdf
zxcv';
echo htmlspecialchars(urlencode(nl2br($test)));
?>
">Send me an email</a>

And now it's printing this

Asdfa++<Br+/>
Asdf++<Br+/>
Asdf++<Br+/>
Zxcv

Any help?

[hawaiiwebdesign]

$test = <<<EOF
some content
woohooo
and now for a variable: ${somevar}

>>>;

return $test;

[keyboard]

<?php
}
$somevar = "yodog";
?>

<a href="mailto:email@email.com?subject=Subject
&body=
<?php

$test = <<<EOF
some content
woohooo
and now for a variable: ${somevar}

>>>;

return $test;
?>

">Send me an email</a>


It dosen't work