insert variable from include file

jrahma

Hi,

I am trying to insert email_header from include file but it's not inserting anything. How can I fix it please?

here is my file:

include 'includes/email_header.php';
$body .= "<h1>Dear Customer</h1><br>";
$body .= "<p>this is a test email.</p>";
$body = nl2br($body);

and this is the email_header.php:

$body = "hello.......";
$body .= "<br>";
$body .= "here is website logo";

dalecosp

Change include() to require() and make sure it's actually including the file? You don't bother to test ...

jrahma

I did tried require before trying include and it didn't work too. it's the same problem.. it's not getting included.

and make sure it's actually including the file?

How can I check that? the email which is getting sent dose not include the part which should be included! anything else i should check?

dalecosp

((include 'includes/email_header.php') or die("Could not include email header!"));

traq

jrahma;11035179 wrote:
I did tried require before trying include and it didn't work too. it's the same problem.. it's not getting included.

[man]include[/man] would generate a warning if it couldn't include the file, which you might or might not see depending on your error reporting settings.

[man]require[/man] would generate a fatal error, which would stop the script dead.

jrahma;11035179 wrote:
How can I check that? the email which is getting sent dose not include the part which should be included! anything else i should check?

In addition to dalecosp's suggestion, you could simply [man]echo[/man] the [font=monospace]$body[/font] variable—if the include was successful, it would start with the word "hello"; if not, it would start with "<h1> ...".

You could also add checks like

if( ! file_exists( "includes/email_header.php" ) ){ print "file does not exist"; }
if( ! is_readable( "includes/email_header.php" ) ){ print "file is not readable"; }