email verification

Hi

Has anyone noticed that when the verification email is received it is not a link and required cutting and pasting?

More importantly has anyone worked out how to make the verification link clickable?

thanks

Ian

I've just had this issue with a client of mine. It wasn't to do with PowerStore but one of the other solution packs. It turned out that when I tested it the link was clickable. We concluded that it's a local thing. Perhaps your email client has links turned off for security reasons. I was also told that Hotmail has links turned off by default.

Hope that helps.

Hi John

interesting you've had it working because the code on the page does does not show any html for the link structure.

I modifed it from

<?php echo($WAGLOBAL_Root_URL); ?>users_Confirm.php?ID=<?php echo(mysql_insert_id()); ?>&code=<?php echo($_SESSION['randomConfirm']); ?>

to

<a href="<?php echo($WAGLOBAL_Root_URL); ?>users_Confirm.php?ID=<?php echo(mysql_insert_id()); ?>&code=<?php echo($_SESSION['randomConfirm']); ?>"><?php echo($WAGLOBAL_Root_URL); ?>users_Confirm.php?ID=<?php echo(mysql_insert_id()); ?>&code=<?php echo($_SESSION['randomConfirm']); ?></a>

but it still does not function,

I'll have to take another look.

Yes I thought that at first as well but the $WAGLOBAL_Root_URL places the URL of your site in front of all the rest. This is set in the Globals file and should follow the style of yourdomain.com/

It's this line

//root url
$WAGLOBAL_Root_URL = ((isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']) && strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'], 'HTTPS') !== false) ? 'https://' : 'http://') . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $WAGLOBAL_localRoot;

I assume that it's filled in during set up. I only purchaced PowerStore last night and haven't actually used it yet but I assume that's it. Just check that line and make sure that it has your domain in there. If it has then i revert back to my original post and blame the end users email client / host.

Having had a good look at this today, it actually picks up the URL from the Server Variable "SERVER_NAME"

With that I think I'll hand over to the WA staff :)

Hi John

yes I suspected that, however I've hit other issues that take precedence - like the paypal end seems to not work.

And it seems I can place an order without registering an address etc;-)

I'm hoping the WA team will help me sort it tonight - I sense a working weekend coming on

cheers

Ian

The default functionality is to just insert the link like you mentioned. Mail clients will treat this differently, if links are not allowed making it into a standard html style link will not fix the problem. If links are allowed the url should be clickable, different browsers and mail clients will do this differently though. You could always add in some text to let the user know to cut and past the link if it is not clickable. This is a very common approach when sending email verification links.

When it comes to the problems you are having with the checkout please explain a little about the steps you are taking in your testing and the specific results you are getting including any errors.

Hi Eric

I've put another post up about my paypal issues, no doubt it will be responded to due course.

As to the link being a hyper link is the link made in the php? because on the page there is no href. Also I've test it in outlook express, incredimail, windows mail and Outlook does not seem to be clickable in any of them

cheers

Ian

In my testing in Outlook 2007, Thunderbird, and Gmail web based email the link is clickable by default.

If you have linking allowed in any of your mail clients it should not matter if the link is an href or just a URL, the client should recognize it and allow you to click on the link.