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Php mail () breaks 650 char long Url

I use the php mail function to send a link with many parameters. The URL after encoding can be 650 or more characters because its holding variables re-fill the form.

When I click on the link in my letter, it broke because the place was inserted somewhere in the URL.

Here is 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 <sales@imninjas.com>' . '\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); }

Here is the code I'm calling sendMail with. Its '$ salesUrl = $ this-> getSalesFormUrl ();' i.e. 650+ character set filled with encoded parameters.

  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\tg:ia").",<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 is the URL that I get in my letter, you will see a space "... BhsNKq Jsd_x4 ..." in the middle of the URL. This happens elsewhere every time, even if I submit the same URL. To prove this, I hard-coded this url without a space in the emailRep method and sent it several times. The space was moving.

 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 that I use to encode / decode URL parameters before sending via 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 to prevent this space? I know that I can shorten the URL with something like bit.ly, but its an internal tool. I feel that there must be a way to stop the space from pasting.

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Who in their right mind uses a long query string of 650 characters?

My recommendation is to keep the server query string. Put it in the database with the AUTO_INCREMENT field, then you can get the identifier for it. Then you can simply send the URL as http://example.com/?email_key=ID_GOES_HERE , a much shorter URL. Then just find 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 the API, nothing in the database :)

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Ok, I had the same problem. My solution was to shorten my own link ... Create a new table in the database with several lines, several lines of code in the old script and a new page to redirect ... This is the shortest explanation, if you need help, just ask :)

EDIT:

  function emailRep() { $params = $this->getParamaterArray(); $shortUrl = $this->getShortUrl(); $salesUrl = $this->getSalesFormUrl(); /***********************************************************************************/ $arr = str_split('QWERTYUIOPLKJHGFDSAZXCVBNM123456789qwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm'); // get all the characters into an array shuffle($arr); // randomize the array $arr = array_slice($arr, 0, 6); // get the first six (random) characters out $short = implode('', $arr); // smush them back into a string mysql_query("INSERT INTO shortlinks VALUES(NULL, '$salesUrl', '$short')"); /*******************************************************************************************/ $mailSubject = "Return to the sales order form for ".$params['clientName']." at ".$params['company']."."; $mailBody = "The following information is from an order created on, ".date("l, F j, Y \a\tg:ia").",<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/>"; $mailBody .= "<a href='".$short."'>".$short."</a><br/><br/>"; // Rename $salesUrl to $short return ($this->sendEmail($params['repEmail'], $mailSubject, $mailBody)); }

And the redirect page:

 $token=$_GET['token']; // like http://example.com/out.php?token=ahgByT or make it cleaner with htaccess $qry=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM links WHERE short='$token'"); $arr=mysql_fetch_array($qry); $out=$arr['long_link']; header("Location: ".$out); ?>
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