Web Site Comments - Emails and Links

By Perchpole - January 6, 2015

OK. I've got the link in the email working properly. It now links to the proper page - complete with query string.

The only thing that doesn't work is the unsubscribe link in the email. The URL appears to form correctly but it uses & as argument separators instead of &. This causes the link to fail.

If I copy the link and replace & with & the unsubscribe link works.

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Perch

By claire - January 8, 2015

Hi Perch, this is an encoding error. Are you using any HTML encoding or URL encoding on the links?

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By Perchpole - January 8, 2015

Hi, Claire -

No. Nothing at all.

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Perch

By claire - January 8, 2015

Hm - okay, try adding a htmlspecialchars_decode() to the link when you add it to the email. That should turn the &amp back into &.

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By Perchpole - January 8, 2015

Hi, Claire -

OK, thanks. I'll give it a go. Any idea why this is happening?

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Perch

By Perchpole - January 8, 2015

Hi, Claire -

Sorry to be a pain, but just for clarrification...

The dodgy placeholder is: #unsubscribeUrl# which is from the "SUBSCRIBER-COMMENT-ADDED" email template.

The code appears (once) in websiteComments.php in this block:

$placeholders = array(
'user.email' => @$CURRENT_USER['email'],
'user.fullname' => @$CURRENT_USER['fullname'],
'user.username' => @$CURRENT_USER['username'],
'commentPageName' => $record['pageName'],
'commentPageUrl' => $record['pageUrl'],
'commentAdminUrl' => $GLOBALS['SETTINGS']['adminUrl'] . "?menu=_wsc_comments&action=edit&num=" . $commentNum,
'commentText' => @$_REQUEST['wsc_comment'],
'unsubscribeUrl' => array_value( explode('?', $record['pageUrl']), 0)

Where do I wrap the code snippet you gave me?

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Perch

By claire - January 9, 2015

There might be something else going on here. Could you send in a support request email? I'll pick it up and take a look at the files directly.

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