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I have probably a stupid problem. In a script I generate a URL with GET parameters, something like ‘www.mydomain.com/index.php?item=1234’. This URL will be sent by PHP through mail() in an UTF-8 encoding (the scriptfile itself also is utf-8). Now each time I have the GET-Parameter with two numbers after the ‘=’ the URL in the email looks like ‘www.mydomain.com/index.php?item□34’ with a rectangle instead of ‘=12’. I am sure there is an easy way to fix this?
Thanks in advance,
Maenny
You must be using quoted-printable encoding in which encoding sequences start with
=. Instead of struggling with encoding manually, choose a mail library which does that (and a lot more) for you. I recommend PHPmailer.Also, url parameters are ugly. It is very easy to set nice urls via the Apache mod_rewrite module and use urls like
www.mydomain.com/item/1234, which has the added benefit of being implementation-independent and somewhat more SEO-friendly. (For full SEO-friendliness usewww.mydomain.com/item/my-cool-itemor at leastwww.mydomain.com/item/1234/my-cool-item.)