HTML formatted email from HTML+PHP template file

goa103

Hello,

I would like to send a HTML formatted email using a HTML and PHP template file. It means that the template file I use contains both HTML and PHP. I need to email informations from my DB so the template contains things like:
$res = mysql_query ()...
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ()...

See ? The problem came up when I tried to send the email with my new host. I used ob functions in order to output HTML and get the contents (ob_start -> ob_get_contents -> ob_flush) but now It doesn't work because the host disabled the ob functions. So I thought about reading the file and kind of evaluating, but of course It doesn't work.

So I would like to read and evaluate the HTML+PHP template file. So I get a clean & neat HTML body for my email.

I don't want to use a template engine because I use PHP statements like loops, functions...

Any idea ?
JM

mjr

Originally posted by goa103
Hello,

I would like to send a HTML formatted email using a HTML and PHP template file. It means that the template file I use contains both HTML and PHP. I need to email informations from my DB so the template contains things like:
$res = mysql_query ()...
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ()...

See ? The problem came up when I tried to send the email with my new host. I used ob functions in order to output HTML and get the contents (ob_start -> ob_get_contents -> ob_flush) but now It doesn't work because the host disabled the ob functions. So I thought about reading the file and kind of evaluating, but of course It doesn't work.

So I would like to read and evaluate the HTML+PHP template file. So I get a clean & neat HTML body for my email.

I don't want to use a template engine because I use PHP statements like loops, functions...

Any idea ?
JM [/B]

the best way is using .= instead of echo() like

$s='<table>';
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($res)){
  $s.='<tr>';
  $s.='<td>'.$row[0].'</td>';
  $s.='</tr>';
}
$s.='</table>';

goa103

Hi,

I don't want to use echo/print nor the .= operator. I want to use a template file that contains HTML/PHP. I design the message I want to send with a WYSIWYG HTML editor, add some PHP code to it... And I want to send it from a PHP script. So I want to load and evaluate it.

Thanks,
JM