Emailing Long Links

[toneharb]

Some browsers add new lines every so many characters the link is truncated .

I use php mail which does the job fine 9/10 times or more but just wonder if there is any way known to man or beast of getting all browsers not to split the link up .

[vinyl-junkie]

I don't know if there is, but one workaround you might try is tinyurl.com (http://tinyurl.com/).

[toneharb]

Thanks Vinyl Junkie .

That is the sort of thing (although i was hoping it was something to do with the parameters used by phpmail maybe the encoding parameter for instance ) .

That would also come in handy for affiliate links through my affiliate site.

But as there's hundreds it would be best to write something similar to do it dynamically .

I assume it works by storing the long URL in a db which is looked up when someone clicks the link and goes to redirect page - one for each small url record (probably compressed somehow) . Have seen quite a lot sites do this kind of thing , don't really have time myself .

If anyone knows of any ready made scripts which can do this internally on an a large scale - 100s of links i'd be interested to hear .

Cheers:D