E-mail link information relay

[justinbriggs1]

Hello, thanks everyone for their help in the past, I've gained a great deal of insight and knowledge from your posts. Here's a PHP question that I think is kind of interesting but has stumped me. I would like to create a link in an e-mail that when clicked will relay the sender's e-mail so I can use it as a session variable. I was thinking maybe I could send the e-mail address in the link itself, then when clicked it would show up in the URL or something similar Any ideas? Thanks,JW

[Jesdisciple]

Is this email sent via your PHP application? Whom should the email be relayed to? What are you wanting to use as a session variable? And last but not least, why would you want to do this?If the email is sent by your PHP, you can put the text of the email in a database and make the link point to a page which retrieves the text and does something with it.

[justinbriggs1]

Is this email sent via your PHP application? Whom should the email be relayed to? What are you wanting to use as a session variable? And last but not least, why would you want to do this?If the email is sent by your PHP, you can put the text of the email in a database and make the link point to a page which retrieves the text and does something with it.

Sorry, let me clear it up. I created a web page that allows a person to enter several e-mail addresses into a table. When submitted, invitations are sent to these e-mails. If the recipient would like to join a group, they only have to click the hyperlink and they will be directed to a page that has their e-mail stored as a session variable, therefore they don't have to type the e-mail address in. I am already storing the e-mails in a database; that is part of same PHP page, so I can see your suggestion working fine. Is that the simplest way?

[morrisjohnny]

Use the variable $_GETie, store their e-mail and any information just as the group they are going to be joining. Then send their e-mail address in the hyperlink such aswww.exmaple.com/index.php?EMAIL=USERS@EMAIL.SENT.TOthen when they follow the link you can use $_GET['EMAIL'] to get the email address and add them into the correct group that you say u wish to.

[Jesdisciple]

Johnny (I guess that's your first name?) is right... I thought the user was sending a custom message and you wanted to have the message available when the recipient clicked the link.

[justinbriggs1]

Use the variable $_GETie, store their e-mail and any information just as the group they are going to be joining. Then send their e-mail address in the hyperlink such aswww.exmaple.com/index.php?EMAIL=USERS@EMAIL.SENT.TOthen when they follow the link you can use $_GET['EMAIL'] to get the email address and add them into the correct group that you say u wish to.

Thanks, that's along the lines of what I was thinking.

[morrisjohnny]

Johnny (I guess that's your first name?) is right... I thought the user was sending a custom message and you wanted to have the message available when the recipient clicked the link.

yeah Johnny's My Name :)But you could still use this method and then use the WHERE statement to get the messageWHERE email={$_GET['EMAIL']}then echo the custom message :)Glad i could help JW