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Im using the php mail function to send a link with many many paramaters. The url after being encoded can be 650 or more characters long because its holding variables to repopulate a form.
When I click on the link in my email its broken because a space has been inserted somewhere in the URL.
Heres my sendMail function:
protected function sendEmail($to, $subject, $body) {
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . '\r\n';
$headers .= 'From: Sales Order From <[email protected]>' . '\r\n';
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . '\r\n';
$body = '<html><body style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'.$body.'</body></html>';
return mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
}
Heres the code I call sendMail with. Its the '$salesUrl = $this->getSalesFormUrl();' that is the 650+ character url chock full of encoded paramaters.
function emailRep() {
$params = $this->getParamaterArray();
$shortUrl = $this->getShortUrl();
$salesUrl = $this->getSalesFormUrl();
$mailSubject = "Return to the sales order form for ".$params['clientName']." at ".$params['company'].".";
$mailBody = "The following information is from an order created on, ".date("l, F j, Y \a\t g:i a").",<br/><br/>";
$mailBody .= "Customer Contact Information:<br/>";
$mailBody .= "Name: ".$params['clientName'] params['company']."<br/>";
$mailBody .= "Shortened Url to Send to the Customer:<br/>";
$mailBody .= ($shortUrl) ? "<a href='".$shortUrl."'>".$shortUrl."</a><br/><br/>" : "There was an error shortening your url.<br/><br/>";
$mailBody .= "The URL back to the sales form: For sales rep use only, <strong>Do not give to the customer</strong>.:<br/>";
$mailBody .= "<span style='font-style: italic;'>Some email clients add special characters to long urls. If the link does not work then copy and paste it into your browser.</span><br/>";
$mailBody .= "<a href='".$salesUrl."'>".$salesUrl."</a><br/><br/>";
return ($this->sendEmail($params['repEmail'], $mailSubject, $mailBody));
}
And here's the URL I receive in my email, you'll notice the space '...BhsNKq Jsd_x4...' in the middle of the URL. This happens in a different place each time even if I'm sending the exact same url. To prove this I hard coded this url without a space in the emailRep method and sent it multiple times. The space moved around.
http://example.com/admin/index.php?fdJdj9QgFAbgXzPcNJ3AAdbxgotxdk28cNRMjPESW9yihVbKxHR_vaeU7TSZxqSfHDhPX9Jg-lPneu1H9cFHE7yJxUcdfpto_XNxtv6XHkgw_Vk7oy7aFRdnYzONPDltWxV01Zi23glqnU-z91XnpvrnpvNGSXYo4Q0t6UEKUmUp9Sh28JC7Va01Pmaibcc83M8dpCzzKYn5H_rX_BhsNKq Jsd_x4w7e4zHqputSWdc1Uwzezt2LS5xGQJHKxlF98qbzUZMhauxw_k5ebK8YPwDFr776GEb11WPzGtfhjIFE68zL9H2l3FOCFXea5qkHUmO9pCihThlegDLAHamuIeCmTiXSGv8cm_TorL-6q8NnYuvp6nEfpntthgrvx3enkhWP-FJ0P4vYYAvyJ45pbR9slaw9pbPLsnu4d9nNZSuXJZdll2WXJRc2XKYgu0zRvcwuqBSVwuzylQu4ILugxOJCciG7kF1Qx8vjZl5Y8sIqL59dRu9dfnP5yuXJ5dnl2eXJ3crLl7x8lVeoFJWKe1co_uoK_B1eXZFckV2RXaG-fHvazCuWvGKVV84u23DlzZUrVyZXZldmVyZ3K69c8so57z8
Here is the code I use to encode / decode the url paramaters before sending it through the email.
class UrlEncoder {
function compressUrl($url) {
return rtrim(strtr(base64_encode(gzdeflate($url, 9)), '+/', '-_'), '=');
}
function uncompressUrl($url) {
$startParams = strrpos($url, "?");
if($startParams) {
$paramaterString = substr($url, $startParams);
$host = substr($url, 0, strrpos($url, "?"));
$uncompressedParamaters = gzinflate(base64_decode(strtr($paramaterString, '-_', '+/')));
return $host."?".$uncompressedParamaters;
} else {
return NULL;
}
}
}
How do I prevent this space? I know I could shorten the URL with something like bit.ly however its an internal tool. I feel like there must be a way to stop the space from being inserted.
992
Who in their right mind uses a 650-character long query string?
My recommendation is to save the query-string server-side. Put it in a database with an AUTO_INCREMENT field, then you can get an ID for it. Then you can just send the URL as http://example.com/?email_key=ID_GOES_HERE, a much shorter URL. Then just look up the query string from the database.
Done.
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I have what you need, http://www.9lessons.info/2009/01/split-url-from-sentence-using-php.html. Create tinyurl links using API,nothing in the database :)
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