Spaces in placeholder text entries

Hi Jerry, 

The issue is that you need to urlencode values that you put in a link.  You can use the PHP urlencode() function for this.

The easiest might be to build up your link in PHP and then pass it as one value to the placeholders array.

$addLink  = "http://my-site.com/cmsAdmin/admin.php?menu=accounts&action=add";
$addLink .= "&username=" .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['username']); 
$addLink .= "&email="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['email']); 
// and so on...


And then add it to your placeholders 

Let me know if that works for you.

Yea, you'd either need to change the code in the email template to include a link with urlencoded values, or urlencode all the placeholders before you pass them in.  But if you urlencoded all the placeholders before you passed them to the function then you wouldn't be able to display them as text because they'd look "like%20this".  So probably the first option would be best.

Let me know how it goes.

Hi Dave,

Thanks for all your help!

Once I figured out all the syntax it worked like a charm. Here's what I came up with:

In the page that calls the email template:

<?php

// add user
if (!$errorsAndAlerts) {

$addLink  = "http://my-site.com/cmsAdmin/admin.php?menu=accounts&action=add";
$addLink .= "&username=" .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['username']);
$addLink .= "&email="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['email']);
$addLink .= "&password="    .'2AX3Frb' ;
$addLink .= "&first_name="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['first_name']);
$addLink .= "&last_name="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['last_name']);
$addLink .= "&practice_name="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['practice_name']);
$addLink .= "&approved="    .'1';
$addLink .= "&practice_street_address="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['practice_street_address']);
$addLink .= "&practice_city="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['practice_city']);
$addLink .= "&practice_state="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['practice_state']);  
$addLink .= "&practice_zip="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['practice_zip']);  
$addLink .= "&practice_phone="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['practice_phone']);
$addLink .= "&training_experience="    .urlencode(@$_REQUEST['training_experience']);
    
// send email to Admin
          $emailHeaders = emailTemplate_loadFromDB(array(
    'template_id'  => 'DIRECTORY-LISTING-REQUEST',
    
    'placeholders' => array(
      'contact.firstName'     =>  ($_REQUEST['first_name']),
      'contact.lastName'      =>  ($_REQUEST['last_name']),
      'contact.email'     =>  ($_REQUEST['email']),
      'contact.username'     =>  ($_REQUEST['username']),
      'practice'     =>  ($_REQUEST['practice_name']),
      'street'     => ($_REQUEST['practice_street_address']),
      'city'     => ($_REQUEST['practice_city']),
      'state'     => ($_REQUEST['practice_state']),
      'zip'     =>  ($_REQUEST['practice_zip']),
      'phone'     =>  ($_REQUEST['practice_phone']),
      'training' =>  ($_REQUEST['training_experience']),
      'addLink'   => $addLink,
           )));
      $mailErrors   = sendMessage($emailHeaders);
      if ($mailErrors) { alert("Mail Error: $mailErrors"); }
      
      // show thanks
     $errorsAndAlerts = "
              <div class='heading_font' align='center'>THANKS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR REQUEST TO BE INCLUDED<br />IN THE DIRECTORY<br />
               </div>
              <div align='center'>
                <br />
                <div class='text_font' align='left'><b>Your directory listing request has been sent successfully.<br />
                  <br />
                  You'll get an email from us after we've reviewed your request.<br />
                  <br />
                  Best, <br />
                  <br />
                  The Directory Team</b></div>
              </div>
            </div>";
      $_REQUEST        = array(); // clear form values
      $showSignupForm  = false;
    }

?>

And in the email template I then only had to add the #addLink# placeholder in place of the link and code I originally used:

Hello,

#contact.firstName# #contact.lastName# has submitted a directory listing request for #practice#.


Their address is:#street#
#city#, #state# #zip#


Their phone number is: #phone#


Their email address is: #contact.email#


They've indicated the following training/expeience:
#training#


After you've determined that the request is from a valid provider, AND THE PROVIDER IS NOT ALREADY LISTED IN THE DIRECTORY,


1) click on the link below to create a listing in the directory
2) Make sure that the "Approved" check box is checked in their new listing
3) "Save" the new listing record or it will not be available for updating


NOTE: After they've updated their profile (you'll get an email when they do), and you feel that the information is ready for release, you'll have to un-hide their listing and re-save the record, or it will not be available in the directory.


If you cannot click on the link below, copy it and paste it into your browser.


#addLink#

Hope it proves useful to someone.

Jerry Kornbluth