How to rid of amp; in href link in email

[JoeB]

I am working on a contribution that sends out a href link in an email. The code is this..

 

$verification_mail = tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT_ACTIVATE, 'activation_id=' . $activation_id .'&submit=true&activation_code=' . $activation_code, 'SSL');

$verification_link = '<a href="' . $verification_mail . '">' . $verification_mail . '</a>' ."\n\n";

$email_text .= EMAIL_WELCOME . EMAIL_TEXT . TEXT_ACTIVATION_CODE . $activation_code . "\n\n" . EMAIL_TEXT_ACTIVATION . $verification_link . EMAIL_CONTACT . EMAIL_WARNING;

tep_mail($name, $email_address, EMAIL_SUBJECT, $email_text, STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

tep_redirect($verification_href);

 

 

Every time the link comes in my email the 2 "&" in the section of code "&submit=true&activation_code=" comes out looking like "&submit=true&activation_code=".

 

If I take the amp; out by hand and then click on my link everything works. If it is left in it does not work.

 

How would you change the above code to get rid of the amp;?

Or is there a way to do a replace just like a perl routine that finds amp; and replaces it with "" nothing.

 

HELP!!!