variables won't work in the HTML of a mail

freak-me-baby

Hello people,
I need your help please.......I've made html mail in php and it looks like this;
$a_variable="content";
$body= '
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Bestelling dit ben ik - Internationaal</title>
</head>
<body>
$a_variable
</body>
</html>';
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

if ($from && $to && $subject && $body)
	{
	if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))

		echo, print "Well done.";
	else
		echo "2 bad";
	}

}

this is only an example, but the problem is that in the mail that is send the variable still looks like this: $a_variable
Why won't it work?
And is it possible to give variables in HTML_MAILS?
please let me know
Greetz Rich

John_Canyon

Greetings try changing the beginning ' to " like this.

$body= "
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">

<html>
<head>
<title>Bestelling dit ben ik - Internationaal</title>
</head>
<body>".
$a_variable."
</body>
</html>";

This should work for you.

John

freak-me-baby

Thank you so much...it works