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I was working on a very simple “email this article as a recommendation” feature, where the user would click a link to open their email client with a pre-populated subject and email body. The link looks like this:
<a href="mailto:?subject=SUBJECT_TEXT&body=BODY_TEXT"
The issue I ran into showed up when the article title contained special characters and especially an ampersand (&), since that would cut off the subject line, because it would signal the beginning of the next paramater. This feature is for a Kirby site and I tried a few different PHP encodings to get around this problem. One of the obvious things to try was to urlencode() the string. Since urlencode() replaces the spaces with a “+” sign, it wasn’t the right choice. Eventually the solution was to use PHP’s rawurlencode() for the subject text, which uses “%20” for spaces which are later invisible in the subject line.
This content originally appeared on foobartel.com :: Stream and was authored by foobartel.com :: Stream
foobartel.com :: Stream | Sciencx (2019-12-04T23:00:00+00:00) Encoding mailto: Subject Lines. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2019/12/04/encoding-mailto-subject-lines-2/
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