Benjamin, you are my father! Dude! That worked perfectly...
In case you all didn't understand what I was trying to do, attached are
some examples... This worked thanks to "Benjamin Vincent" ;-)
------------ snip 'customer_email.php' --------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<CENTER>
<TABLE>
<TR><TD><B>Username</B></TD><TD><B><?=$User?></B></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><B>Password</B></TD><TD><B><?=$Password1?></B></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><B>Company
Code</B></TD><TD><B><?=$Company?></B></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</CENTER>
</body>
</html>
------------ snip 'customer_email.php' --------------
------------ snip 'emailtest.php' --------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>EMAIL include test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$User = "test user";
$Password1 = "mypass";
$Company = "mycomp";
// email us to let us know there is a new user.
$email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
$subject = "email test";
$myname = "emailtest";
$myemail = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
$myreplyemail = $myemail;
ob_start();
include("/www/secure.interactnetworks.com/customer_email.php");
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$email."\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <".$myreplyemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Linux Server";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo $message;
?>
check your email to see if this worked.
</body>
</html>
------------ snip 'emailtest.php' --------------
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Niemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] how can I use an external 'template' file
> and still use PHP variables?
>
>
> I think this should make it:
>
> ob_start();
> include("/pathto/customer_email.php");
> $message = ob_get_contents();
> ob_end_clean();
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:48 AM
> Subject: [PHP] how can I use an external 'template' file and
> still use PHP
> variables?
>
>
> > I've posted this a few weeks ago with no response. I want to use an
> > external
> > "email template" as it were, so that the sales guys can
> edit it as they
> > like and simply shuffle the variables around that they need
> > $username and $password (either with or without the <?php ?> tags).
> >
> > I don't want them mucking around in my code and potentially
> screwing it
> > up. Not to mention having a huge 'email' text in between those
> > HTMLMESSAGE markers is ugly as hell and ends up making the
> color-coding
> > in HomeSite all kinds of whack at the end of it.
> >
> > I tried to use:
> >
> > $message = <<<HTMLMESSAGE
> > include("/pathto/customer_email.php");
> > HTMLMESSAGE;
> >
> > But $message has the literal string
> > ''include("/pathto/customer_email.php");'' instead of including the
> > file. Grr.. (wouldn't it make sense that an include()
> should be parsed
> > FIRST with the contents put in place basically? This seems
> like a 'bug'
> > not a feature.
> >
> > I also tried:
> >
> > $filename = "/pathto/customer_email.php";
> > $fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
> > $message = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
> > fclose ($fd);
> >
> > But all the $username, etc. are treated as literals and if I use
> > <?=$username?> in the customer_email.php the field is blank
> (like it's
> > being parsed but doesn't have a value for it or something),
> instead of
> > being converted to their actual PHP values. I also tried to put the
> > "global" keyword in the customer_email.php file at the top.
> >
> > Ideally I would like to set things up so we have varoius form letter
> > emails and I can switch them around based upon say a "special order
> > code", where the $user/$pw is always the same (depending on
> the database
> > user of course), but the email content is different formats.
> >
> > Is there no way to accomplish this? Am I not being clear on
> what it is
> > I'm trying to accomplish?
> >
> > My final thought is to use some regex to search for
> <?=$username?> in
> > $message after it's all been read in, and replace it with
> the variable
> > $username or make up my own tag codes like [!username!] or something
> > like that. This seems like such a hack, when PHP should be
> able to do
> > this natively somehow.
> >
> > Surely somebody out there has had to do this type of thing?
>
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