pmcall
Member
I'm trying to populate an email field from a link that will be sent to people in an email. For example:
http://www.newfuturescircle.com/access/preference-update/?email=person@domain.com
If I copy and paste the link into the web browser, it works fine. But if I click the link, which is what I'd want users to do, the @ sign is removed.
Is there another way to do this, or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks.
Pam
pmcall
Member
OK, this is really weird. Clicking the link I just posted works fine. But clicking the same link in a plain-text email loses the @ sign. Is there a reason for this? I'm not much of a techie ...
Pam
Edited to add: Same result (losing the @ sign) clicking the link in an HTML-formatted email. Tried it from Apple Mail, and from Gmail on Firefox and Safari.
pmcall
Member
Figured it out myself. For the benefit of anyone who comes across this, the answer seems to be that the URL has to be encoded, changing the @ to %40. Then it works fine.
So I did a little PHP script to accomplish that. Bit of a workaround for something I thought was going to be easy, but I think I have it working now.