[SOLVED] Need smarty REPLACE help for the FEU email notification

[janaf]

Hi,

Newbie needs help. I want to remove some html tags from a smarty tag (the $link of the FEU email confirmation template)

I guess I should use smarty "replace", but can not find the right syntax.

Something like:

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{$link=replace:'<a href=':'':$link}
{$link=$link|replace:'</a>':'':$link}

<p>Follow <a href="{$link}">this link</a> to complete the registration.</p>

(yes, I know the syntax is bad, that's why I need help)


The failure rate of signups wit the default full long URL has been very high (lots of complaints / emails like "I can not sign up, the link does not work").

I think the reason is that many email clients can not wrap a long URL properly co I´d like to try if this idea works better.

Thanks in advance

[Jos]

replace
http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/languag ... eplace.php

Maybe better/easier: strip_tags
http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/languag ... p.tags.php

[janaf]

Thanks for the tip.

I changed the FEU registration email text to this:

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<p>Please click <a href="{$link|strip_tags}">this link</a>  to complete your registration.</p>

So instead of displaying the default 3-4 lines long link in the message, the HTML format email the registrant gets a message like

"Please follow this link to complete your registration"

This dramatically decreased the failure rate from somewhere around 50% (based on 150 registrations) to zero (from the latest 10 registrations).