loop function inside variable statement

ShaolinWood

Hi, I have a page that sends an email.

The basic structure works like this:

$content = "<html><body>blah blah".$moreVars."</body></html>";

Now I need to run a SQL query that loops and then places extra tables inside that html page, and it uses includes to pull page structures and then populates it with variables...

Can I run a funtion inside that statement? Where $moreVars is currently?
How would I structure this? I've tried a couple of things now and no success...

Thanks to anyone that can help!

ShaolinWood

can I do this:

$variable = include("blah.php");

Is it valid to do this?

kburger

ShaolinWood wrote:
can I do this:
$variable = include("blah.php");
Is it valid to do this?

Not really.

$variable would get the value of 1 if the include was successful. Unless you returned some value in blah.php. In which case $variable would get the value you returned.

I'm having a hard time trying to understand exactly what you're trying to accomplish. Why don't you simply 'build up' your $content variable?

<?php
$content = "<html><body>blah blah";
$content .= $moreVars;
// do some stuff
$content .= "whatever you want";
// do some more stuff
$content .= "</body></html>";
?>

ShaolinWood

Thanks for the reply.
I get what you're saying, and thanks for the pointer on the include().

The reason I can't simply build up the page is because I need the entire page structure to be parsed through a Var. like so

$pageContent="<html><body>".$bodycontent."</body></html>";

And $pageContent will be the content of an email. and $bodyContent will be a number of templates, (a loop getting data from the DB and generating a number of tables)

When I run the loop prior to where I state the Var (or anywhere) I end up getting the tables spat out on the page instead of the variable (and email)

The whole email function works fine, I just can't get the tables to go into the $bodyContent var...

So if I want to add an include page to be include in the $bodyContent var (in the email html page) how would I state it?

(the content in the included file is a php formatted table structure)

ShaolinWood

Ooooh, I now get what you say!! So I just add to the var like you did with $content
Sorry, conpletely missed that!!

Thanks, I'll quickly give that a try

ShaolinWood

But I still need the include page though...so how would I bring that in? (The included page contains a template that's used through the entire site...so that's pretty neccecery

kburger

Check out eval() and pay special attention to this from the manual:

Tip: As with anything that outputs its result directly to the browser, you can use the output-control functions to capture the output of this function, and save it in a string (for example).