Need a bit of PHP help (probably very easy!)

[gjh42]

I have seen functioning code before with incomplete <li> tags. Apparently browsers will try to make incomplete HTML work rather than throw it out. I think it used to be common to leave tags hanging, and there is still legacy code floating around and being reused.

[lat9]

I have seen functioning code before with incomplete <li> tags. Apparently browsers will try to make incomplete HTML work rather than throw it out. I think it used to be common to leave tags hanging, and there is still legacy code floating around and being reused.

Agreed, but this is regarding email viewers which can have their own peculiarities.

[brightgirl]

So, first I tried RodG's suggestion of escaping the quotes in the link. That had no effect.

Then I tried closing all the li tags per lat9's suggestion - actually, I had thought it was strange that they weren't closed in the original code! - but still no effect.

Just for kicks, I also tried bislewl's suggestion, although the link I need there is not a link to the store home page, but a link to the home page of the entire website that contains the store.

So, I STILL don't know what's wrong. It's extra frustrating that there doesn't seem to be a way to view the source code of an email so I can see what it is even doing?? I tried View > Message > Raw Source in Apple Mail but didn't show the HTML code that is behind the email, just all the headers and stuff.

I think my next step will be to create a user account for my husband so that he gets the welcome email and see if it looks any different in his email program (probably not, but it's worth a try)

I am still holding out hope that maybe someone will see this and spot something. It makes no sense that the other links in the email come through as links just fine, but the one I created doesn't!

[brightgirl]

Update: In my husband's email the sign up link is still not clickable NOR is the mailto link for the store's contact email (that was clickable in my email program, but perhaps that is just a difference in the way mail programs handle mailto links). The store link at the bottom IS clickable in his email as well.

So I'm still thinking SOMETHING has got to be wrong with the way I constructed the sign up link...

[brightgirl]

Interesting. My husband's email raw message view DOES show the actual HTML of the email. Only the very last link to the store at the bottom shows up with anchor tags around it. My sign up link and the mailto link for the store (part of the original ZC code) do NOT show up with anchor tags around them even though they are clearly there in the PHP.

I've decided to "solve" this problem for now by just putting "please sign up at www.example.com" in the text string there. Email programs seems to recognize any text starting with www as a link and display it as such. So that's gonna have to be good enough unless someone comes up with other ideas for me. I have other brick walls to go beat my head on!