Include order confirmation email into PHP mail function
Question
I need to produce an order confirmation email on PHP. I have a php file that contains the confirmation email (since it has some variables that should be printed when loaded in the main php processing the order. It looks like this:
**orderConf.php**
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
</body>
Dear <?php echo $firstName." ".$lastName; ?> .....
.....
</body></html>
Then in the main php that processes the order, I have the mail function in which I place this variable: orderProcessing.php
$message = include ("orderConf.php");
Would this be the right way to do it? Or should I compose my confirmation email in a different way?
Thanks
3 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2013-04-17 15:02:39
This is one of few cases where HEREDOC is all right
<?php
$message - <<<HERE
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
</body>
Dear $firstName $lastName
.....
</body></html>
HERE;
then just
include ("orderConf.php");
and have your $message variable.
another option would be using output buffering .
solution2
0 2013-04-17 15:03:54
This way you would just output the contents of the orderConf.php. The message should be returned by this file.
<?php
return <<<MSG <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
</body>
Dear <?php echo $firstName." ".$lastName; ?> .....
.....
</body></html>
MSG;
Or you could use the ob_ functions.
<?php
ob_start();
include('orderConif.php');
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
solution3
-1 2013-04-17 15:06:04
You can't include a file into a variable like that. You would have to use file_get_contents(). However IMO that isn't the best way to do it. Instead what you should do is load your message into a variable and then use the same variable for sending an e-mail. Example below:
$body = '<div>Dear' . $firstName . ' ' . $lastName . '... rest of your message</div>';
Make sure to use inline styling in $body. Tables would probably be a good idea as well, as they work better in e-mails.
Then all you do is use:
$to = recepients address;
$subject = subject;
$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><body>' . $body . '</body></html>', $headers);
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