How to add hyperlink in mail using PHP

Question

I have to add hyperlink into my mail function. But when there has been sent an email, I dont get the tag, but the fully code like "click here" I just want an email without seeing the tag in my mail. This is the code I am using:

function stuurMail($email, $verificationCode)
{
    $tekst = "";
    $receiver= $email;
    $topic = "Bevestiging aanmelding EenmaalAndermaal";
    $tekst .= "Bedankt voor uw aanmelding!\nOm gebruik te kunnen maken van het platform, dient u via het onderstaande link uw account te activeren!\n";
    $tekst .= "<a href=\"test_functie.php\">http://test.nl/test.php?check=$verificationCode</a>";
    $header = "From: blabla@gmail.com";
    mail($receiver, $topic, $tekst, $header);
}

@ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs Not sure how that could help this person. The OP does string concatenation well. What's the problem? — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, May 14 '18 at 10:55
@PraveenKumar they escape the string - that isn't concatenation — treyBake, May 14 '18 at 11:32
@PraveenKumar string concatenation as in using this: `echo $my_var. '-' .$another_var` :) — treyBake, May 14 '18 at 12:52
just also saw that the hyper link references a file - when that sends that should be a full url address, it won't search every single site for `foo.php` — treyBake, May 14 '18 at 12:52
@ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs `$name = "Two Thumbs"; echo "Hello $name!";` - This works mate! `:D` — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, May 14 '18 at 12:53
@PraveenKumar Sorry I'm unsure what your point is with the last comment? :) — treyBake, May 15 '18 at 07:57
@ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs You don't need to concatenate two strings only using `.`. The `"` can expand variables. — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, May 15 '18 at 08:35
@PraveenKumar true, but it's a lot cleaner and easier to read/determine vars in a string - it's just better practice :) and doesn't encourage the idea of SQL injection (obviously not too related but if they get into them using vars inside double quotes, then when they get to SQL then they'll chuck it in without thought) - also single quotes are faster, just so many more benefits to concatting :) — treyBake, May 15 '18 at 08:50

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '18 at 10:42

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You should make the email to be a HTML email and not a plain-text one. Update your header this way:

$header = "From: blabla@gmail.com\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";

answered May 14 '18 at 10:42

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman

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Thank you, but i do now get this [test_functie.php]http://test.nl/verificatie.php?check=3FLY2UpY – Emre May 14 '18 at 11:07
Woah... Sorry?? – Praveen Kumar Purushothaman May 14 '18 at 11:13
The link has not been clickable – Emre May 14 '18 at 11:25
@Emre Try changing it to: `$tekst .= "http://test.nl/test.php?check=$verificationCode";` – Praveen Kumar Purushothaman May 14 '18 at 11:27
Or do this as single quotes are faster: `$tekst .= 'http://test.nl/test.php?check=' . $verificationCode . '';` this can be done for all of your code, remember code such as `"\r\n"` etc is always in need of double quotes, otherwise it wont work.. – jagb May 14 '18 at 11:42
@Emre Oh did you see what exactly is being sent to the email client? Sorry was out for lunch. – Praveen Kumar Purushothaman May 14 '18 at 12:48

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