sending an email from HTML form, address in SQL

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Using this example, Add php variable inside echo statement as href link address?,

I am able to grab an email address from my SQL DB and make it clickable in my form. The HTML looks like this:

but when I either hover over if or click it, it adds the name of my domain before it. So clicking the above tries to go to:

http://mydomainname.com/[email protected]

Here is some of the code that generates my link

            while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
            {
                ob_start();

                echo "
....

<div class='eventContact'>Contact: <a href='".$tempcontact."'>$tempcontact</a></br></div>
                ";

                ob_end_clean();
            }

I am guessing it shouldn't be a 'a href' but not sure what it should be.

change it to mailto: [email protected] -this will fire the users email client — StudioTime
– StudioTime, Commented Jun 4, 2016 at 16:58
<div class='eventContact'>Contact: <mailto(".$tempcontact."'.);''>$tempcontact</br></div> — user3105748
– user3105748, Commented Jun 4, 2016 at 17:01

StudioTime · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-04 16:59:43Z

0

As I said in the comment:

Change it to mailto:[email protected] -this will fire the users email client

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email me</a>

You can then set the subject of the email too if you want

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Hi">Email me</a>

answered Jun 4, 2016 at 16:59

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user3105748 Over a year ago

Thanks, works now - for anyone else trying to do this I will post the end result:<div class='eventContact'>Contact: <a href='mailto:".$tempcontact.";'>$tempcontact</a></br></div>

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