Using php includes in Email

nainil

Can someone give me examples of using php includes in HTML Emails sent using PHP? Eg. including an html file / a web page in the email.

Thanks.
Nainil.

AstroTeg

I'm not sure that could be done. I think you'd have to buffer the output. Intercept it just before PHP is ready to dump it to the browser and store it in a string to be used as the email message. Sounds kind of messy.

Another thought is to use templates or use PHP's file handling functions to open the included file as a text file and read it in as a string.

rehfeld


ob_start();
include 'file.php';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

nainil

This is my php code. It gives me the Web page in EMAIL. But it does not give it in HTML FORMAT. It gives HTML TAGS too in the email.

How do I get this sorted?


<?php 

// [url]http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/html-email.php[/url]

//add From: header 
$headers = "From: [email]postmaster@website.com[/email]\r\n"; 

//specify MIME version 1.0 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

//unique boundary 
$boundary = uniqid("HTMLDEMO"); 

//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . "; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

//message to people with clients who don't 
//understand MIME 
$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 

//plain text version of message 
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
   "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 

//HTML version of message 
$headers .= "--$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("This the <b>HTML</b> version!")); 


/* recipients */
$to  = "nainil@eliteral.com" . ", " ; // note the comma
$to .= "nainil@gmail.com";

$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a"); 

/* subject */
$subject = "$today Zend Website Details";

$inside_msg = file_get_contents("http://www.zend.com");


/* message */
$message = "This is an HTML EMAIL
<html>
<h1>
This is BIG
</h1>

$inside_msg;

";


if ( mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ) {
   echo "The email has been sent!";
   } else {
   echo "The email has failed!";
   }


// mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>