Problem w/ include() - echoes file contents

Gary_Kambic

Hello,

I'm trying to put together a newsletter based on three sections using includes. In each of the includes I have gone through and placed the escape character "\" in front of each ".

When I execute the script, it echoes the contents of the includes which I don't want and in the e-mail I receive the following:

111

It works fine when I hardcode the html in the main script with the following:

$newsletter = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"
\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">
<title>Hints for Homes | Newsletter</title>
<style type=\"text/css\">
<!--
.style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: x-small;
}

.style6 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: x-small;
}
.
.

.

I also tried to encase the html with </php . . . ?> I received an error.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thx, gary

----following code is in the main script ----------------------

if ($month == "11") {
$newsletter = include ("newsletters/Newsletter_HTML_Header.php");
$newsletter .= include ("newsletters/Newsletter_HTML_Agent_Header.php");

$newsletter .= include ("newsletters/Newsletter_11_November_Code.php");

----contents of ------------ Newsletter_HTML_Header.php

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"
\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">
<title>Hints for Homes | Newsletter</title>
<style type=\"text/css\">
<!--
.style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: x-small;
}

.style6 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: x-small;
}
.
.
.

------later in the main program I e-mail the client -------------------
.
.
.
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$newsletter"));

        //send e-mail 
		mail($client_email_address_search, $clientsubject, $clientbody, $headers);

Frederick

In your included pages, you must use a variable to set the lines of html.

<?php
$HTML_Header = "<html>\n";
$HTML_Header .= "<head>\n";
$HTML_Header .= "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">\n";
$HTML_Header .= "<style type=\"text/css\"><!-- 
#style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; }\n";

$HTML_Header .= "#style6 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font size: x-small; }\n";

// etc.
// etc.
?>

Use id instead of class for your styles.

In your newsletter, set it up like:

include ("newsletters/Newsletter_HTML_Header.php"); 
include ("newsletters/Newsletter_HTML_Agent_Header.php"); 
include ("newsletters/Newsletter_11_November_Code.php");
$message = "$HTML_Header\n";
$message .= "$Agent_Header\n";
$message .= "$11_November_Code\n";

mail($client_email_address_search, $clientsubject, $message, $headers);

As you can see above, I used the name of your includes as the variables just for example. You would setup each incuded file with the same method.

Gary_Kambic

Hi Frederick,

Thank you very much for the help. It worked beautifully! :-)

Best regards,

Gary