HTML Email

[Anon]

Does anyone know whether I can sent a html email that has php codes in it?

I use the following code where $email_body is a html/php file(just HTML works fine):
mail($recipients, $subject, $email_body, $email_headers);
In the email header I use text/html.
However, the email I got are php codes and partial HTML files.
Any suggestions?

[Anon]

Do you want the php code to run? As if it was a page on your server? If so no. The email program that someone will be using to view the HTML email doesn't know what PHP is.

However you can probably embed some tag that will call a php page on your server and return the information that you want it to. But I've never tried this approach.

[Anon]

Jamie, there's nothing wrong with the code you posted. But what about the rest of it? What are you trying to send? That's the important part. You can use PHP functions and variables to create the mail. But you have to stay in PHP -- you can't go hopping in and out. Anything outside of PHP will be sent to stdout (the browser), not to the mailer.

[Anon]

It's OK, I solved my problem. I need to use springf to format the php variable into string. Thanks