Custom link name separate from URL

[wattmhite]

I'm working on a script that sends an email to a customer with a custom link. Is there a way to create the name of the link (what the customer sees) as Name (for example) but have the address actually different IE the real address? The problem I',m having is my custom URL is very long and I would like to make it easy and simple for the customer and for them only to see a blue line with the title "Click here"

Thoughts? Many thanks in advance

[OlgerDiekstra]

You can if you use html email formatting. In that case you simply create an anchor tag: <a href="http://test.com/this/can/be/a/very/long/url">Short URL</a>

Your customer will need to be able to display html emails though. Most email clients do.

[wattmhite]

Thank you OlderDiekstra. But how would you implement the " (Quotation Marks) every time I write a script with those it thinks what follows is comments?

[OlgerDiekstra]

Escape the quotation mark. You can do that with a \.

Like this: \"