# Adding a php variable into a send mail \<a href\>

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**Created:** [December 17, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-php-variable-into-a-send-mail-a-href/301900 "2009-12-17T15:18:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-a-php-variable-into-a-send-mail-a-href/301900/1 "2009-12-17T15:18:49Z")

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I have a Flash game that allows you to drag MC’s around and save their locations via URL query string. This works great except the string is 2 miles long…

The idea of the game is to “send to a friend” what you created. So I wrote up a simple PHP mailer. I can easily dump the giant URL into the mailer, but it’s UGLY…

SO…

I went to be able to put the URL query string into a link that hides it’s length.

I have had some experience with html in php mailers, but they were always seperate. ie

\<body\>

\<?php\>  
code  
?\>

html stufff

\<?php\>  
code  
?\>

\</body\>

What I’m trying to achieve is something to this effect:

```php

$message = $_POST["longUrl"];

echo("Check out this Holiday Card I made for you: " . <a href=". $message . ">mydomain.com</a> ". ");

```