[Petal] Creating a mailto href tag

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

On Thu 25-Jul-2002 at 04:59:08PM -0400, William McKee wrote:
> I'm hoping for some input on a better way to create a mailto href. I'm passing in an 
> email address to my script which I want to make into a mailto href. It seems the 
> easiest format would be:
> 
> <a petal:content="email" petal:attr="href mailto:email">email</a>
> 
> However, I doubt that would work (although I haven't actually tried it, though) and 
> have resorted to the following format:
> 
> <a petal:content="email" href="mailto:<?petal:var name="email"?>">email</a>
> 
> Perhaps I need to build a :href modifier... Just looking for some ideas.


Your problem here is that the TAL concept makes it very hard (if not
impossible) to concatenate string. I suspect that 

<a petal:content="email" href="mailto:<?petal:var name="email"?>">email</a>


Is going to make a lot of WYSIWYG editors very upset. But in this case
you can be saved by the magical dollar :+) So what I'd do would be:

<a petal:content="email" href="mailto:$email">someone@foo.com</a>


Which should work, unless there's a bug :-)
Cheers,
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