Hi.

I'm having a big problem when sending html email containing a link to a flash file. $ecard contains the value: http://www.forrealty.net/ecards/farm_1_one.swf . Here's the html code that goes in the email:

$msg = qq(<html><body><center><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpa
+dding="0">
<tr><td><center><img src="$photo"><br><font size="2">
<b>$FORM{'agtname'}<br>
$FORM{'company'}<br>
Phone:</b> 
$FORM{'pnum'}
<p>Click here to visit my web site:<br>
<a href="$FORM{'website'}" target="_blank">$FORM{'website'}</a></font>
+</center></td>
<td><td><td><center>
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/sw
+flash.cab#3,0,0,0" 
  width="424" height="402"><param name="SRC" value="$ecard">
<embed src="$ecard"  
  pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" type="ap
+plication/x-shockwave-flash" width="424" height="402">
</embed></object>
</center></td></tr></table><br>
<font size="2"><b>AOL Users:</b> 
<a href="$ecard" target="_blank">
  Click here if you can't see the ecard above.
</a></font></center>
<p>$body</body></html>);

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What happens is that when it outputs the email, the link saying "Click here if you..." gets corrupted. It adds an exclamation mark (!) to the link and messes up the whole url. This only happens though, if the 'Click here...' link is the same as the link of the flash file that gets displayed in the email. For some really weird reason, it can't have the same link twice in the email!

Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
Ralph :)

2001-09-17 Edit by Corion: Added CODE tags and reformatted the HTML (it was on one line previously)

In reply to Bug when sending email by Anonymous Monk

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