Question

Objective
Send out a Magento transactional email with a link back to the website with a variable on the end of the url.

Process
I pass a variable into Magento’s transactional email called link and display it using the following code in the email template.

<p>link = {{var link}}</p>
<a href=“{{var link}}” target=“_blank">click here</a>

Problem
The link is displayed correctly in the p tags e.g.

http://www.mysite.com/?param=1

However when i move the mouse over a tag i get the following link which prevents the link in the email from working:

x-msg://12/“http://www.mysite.com/?param=1”

Notes

• I have tried this in Mac Mail and Hotmail and get the same result.
• The url i am passing into the email needs to be dynamic and cannot be hard coded.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Answer 1

Turns out I had a funny double quote around the link.