[FX.php List] Creating HTML Mail with PHPMailer

Sat Aug 18 17:57:27 MDT 2007

Jonathan,

The html code that forms the email has to be declared as a PHP  
variable (I think), so the only option I can see if you want, a say,  
pure html include is to read the file into a vairable  using the text  
file functions of php.

Alternatively, I usually use something like :-

<? include_once('html.php'); ?>
where html.php contains

$html='
<html><head></head><body>
<center>Title</center>
...
</body></html>
';

HTH

Regards
Glenn Singleton
glenn at fmutils.com a.h.[ glenn at cornerstoneict.com.au b.h.]
www.fmutils.com - totally free computer software and utilites for  
filemaker plus more
focusing on the needs of special children ( contributions wanted !)
[Mac G4 OS X 10.4.9, Mail V2.1]

On 19/08/2007, at 9:06 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm a little stumped on what should be an easy issue.
>
> I am implementing the project mentioned in an earlier email...allow  
> my users to compose their own email on a php page and then send.
>
> I'd like to set up a pre-determined header and footer section,and  
> then insert the user compose content in the middle.  I just can't  
> figure out how to successfully put the three together for phpmailer  
> to send.  While I can do it easily by specifying the header and  
> footer in the same script, I am having trouble "including"  the  
> HTML code from an external file.  When I try and do so, I get  
> "1UserContent1", where php is placing a "1" before and after the  
> UserContent instead of the intended HTML code from the external files.
>
>
> It looks like a boolean response, but I'n not sure to what.
>
> I *could* just store the header and footer in the phpmail script  
> and avoid the issue, but I really wanted the flexibility to mix and  
> match headers and footers.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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> Jonathan Schwartz
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