How do I parse .html file and put that data into a variable?

[wscreate]

Hi.

I do not want to send this as an attachment... let me make sure I am clear before I get started. 🙂

I have a file in a directory. It is an .html file and is an entire page with some text on it. I want to be able to do the following with php code....

1. Read the contents of the page and (possibly) make it a variable such as "$html_code".

2. Insert the info contained in the variable "$html_code" into a mail command...

ex.
mail("[e-mail]","Subject","Here is your code....\n $html_code\n","From: [e-mail]");

I suppose the most important thing I am seeking to do is to get the html code from the file and somehow put that code into a php variable so I can work with it.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks for any help you can provide. I had no luck doing keyword searches for this issue.

[NogDog]

$html_code = file_get_contents('/path/to/html/file.html');

[suntra]

Enjoy your reading...

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

[wscreate]

suntra wrote:

Enjoy your reading...

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

Didn't you mean RTFM?

You're a sweet man.

[wscreate]

NogDog wrote:

$html_code = file_get_contents('/path/to/html/file.html');

NogDog.... thanks and DOH to me. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but it seems a mile away. Thanks again.