How to email a PHP file after it is interpreted?

[ansuz]

Hello everybody,

I would like to email a page after all php code in it is interpreted. In other words I want to email the final result, not the code. Does anyone have an idea how to do that?

I am using phpmailer.

Thanks in advance!

[ofSHIZ]

Maybe you could try the mail() function..?

[diego25]

You can use the output buffering functions to capture the result of the PHP code, and then use mail() to e-mail it. The mail() command can be in the same script as the code that will be interpreted.

Diego

[ansuz]

My problem is not strictly related to mailing stuff. phpmailer does a great job with that. My problem is to send an interpreted php file. For example:

test.php:
<?phpinfo()?>

If I mail this file, the person will receive exactly what the file contains. What I want is the person to receive the result of phpinfo().

Thanks for your help!

[ansuz]

Hello Diego25,

Can you tell me what are the buffering functions you are referring to?

Thanks!

[ansuz]

Okay, I got it thanks to Diego's tip!

[...]

ob_start();
include( "view_form.html" );
$page = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$mail->Body = $page;

[...]

I think it's time I update my local copy of the php doc.

:rolleyes:

Case closed!