Send email with a template using php
Question
How can I send an email using php then add a template design in the email? I'm using this:
$to = "someone@example.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
And it works fine. The problem is just how to add a template.
11 answers
solution1
113 2013-06-24 11:32:35
Why not try something as simple as this :
$variables = array();
$variables['name'] = "Robert";
$variables['age'] = "30";
$template = file_get_contents("template.html");
foreach($variables as $key => $value)
{
$template = str_replace('{{ '.$key.' }}', $value, $template);
}
echo $template;
Your template file being something like :
<html>
<p>My name is {{ name }} and I am {{ age }} !</p>
</html>
solution2
51 2010-09-14 08:08:55
Lets have a small crack at this :)
class Emailer
{
var $recipients = array();
var $EmailTemplate;
var $EmailContents;
public function __construct($to = false)
{
if($to !== false)
{
if(is_array($to))
{
foreach($to as $_to){ $this->recipients[$_to] = $_to; }
}else
{
$this->recipients[$to] = $to; //1 Recip
}
}
}
function SetTemplate(EmailTemplate $EmailTemplate)
{
$this->EmailTemplate = $EmailTemplate;
}
function send()
{
$this->EmailTemplate->compile();
//your email send code.
}
}
Notice the function SetTemplate() ...
Heres aa small template class
class EmailTemplate
{
var $variables = array();
var $path_to_file= array();
function __construct($path_to_file)
{
if(!file_exists($path_to_file))
{
trigger_error('Template File not found!',E_USER_ERROR);
return;
}
$this->path_to_file = $path_to_file;
}
public function __set($key,$val)
{
$this->variables[$key] = $val;
}
public function compile()
{
ob_start();
extract($this->variables);
include $this->path_to_file;
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $content;
}
}
Here's a small example, you still need to do the core of the script but this will provide you with a nice layout to get started with.
$emails = array(
'bob@bobsite.com',
'you@yoursite.com'
);
$Emailer = new Emailer($emails);
//More code here
$Template = new EmailTemplate('path/to/my/email/template');
$Template->Firstname = 'Robert';
$Template->Lastname = 'Pitt';
$Template->LoginUrl= 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3706855/send-email-with-a-template-using-php';
//...
$Emailer->SetTemplate($Template); //Email runs the compile
$Emailer->send();
Thats really all there is to it, just have to know how to use objects and its pretty simple from there, ooh and the template would look a little something like this:
Welcome to my site,
Dear <?php echo $Firstname ?>, You have been registered on our site.
Please visit <a href="<?php echo $LoginUrl ?>">This Link</a> to view your upvotes
Regards.
solution3
4 2017-07-09 07:37:52
My simple example
template.php
<?php
class Template
{
function get_contents($templateName, $variables) {
$template = file_get_contents($templateName);
foreach($variables as $key => $value)
{
$template = str_replace('{{ '.$key.' }}', $value, $template);
}
return $template;
}
}
?>
contact-us.tpl
Name: {{ name }}
Email: {{ email }}
subject: {{ subject }}
------messages------
{{ messages }}
---------------------
main.php
<?php
include_once 'template.php';
$name = "Your name";
$to = "someone@example.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
$text = Template::get_contents("contact-us.tpl", array('name' => $name, 'email' => $from, 'subject' => $subject, 'messages' => $message));
echo '<pre>';
echo $text;
echo '<pre>';
$mail = @mail($to, $subject, $text, $headers);
if($mail) {
echo "<p>Mail Sent.</p>";
}
else {
echo "<p>Mail Fault.</p>";
}
?>
solution4
3 2014-08-06 22:18:42
$message_to_client = file_get_contents("client_email.html");
//$message_to_client = "bla bla {{ EMAIL }} bla bla";
$variables = array(
'SITE_TITLE' => $SITE_TITLE,
'SITE_LOGO' => $SITE_LOGO,
'SITE_URL' => $SITE_URL,
'CLIENT_NAME' => strip_tags($data->clientname),
'PHONE' => strip_tags($data->phone),
'EMAIL' => strip_tags($data->email),
'CITY' => strip_tags($data->city),
'REGION' => strip_tags($data->region),
'COMMENT' => htmlentities($data->comment)
);
$message_to_client = preg_replace_callback('/{{([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]*?)}}/i',
function($match) use ($variables) {
return $variables[$match[1]];
}, $message_to_client );
solution5
2 2017-07-13 17:37:41
Create your template file, eg,
/path/to/templates/template.twig:
Dear {{name}},
Thank you for writing to us about {{subject}}.
Then follow the instructions at https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/api.html to install and use the twig templating engine with Composer
require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';
$loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('/path/to/templates');
$twig = new Twig_Environment($loader, array());
Then render and send your email:
$to = "someone@example.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = $twig->render('template.twig', array(
'name' => 'Fred',
'subject' => 'philately',
));
$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
solution6
0 2016-06-12 01:54:27
First, you have to make a HTML template:
<form action="#" id="ContactForm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="background-color:#CCCCCC; text-align:center;">
<tr>
<td width="15%">Name:</td>
<td width="85%"><input name="name" type="text" required></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email:</td>
<td><input name="email" type="email" required></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><input name="sub" type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Below code is the mailing code that uses the template.
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
$name=$_REQUEST['name'];
$email=$_REQUEST['email'];
$to=$email; //change to ur mail address
$subject="UandBlog - Send Email Template Demo";
$message = file_get_contents('Your template path'); // Your Template
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
$headers .= "From: noreply@uandblog.com";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
You can also download the full code with the template from UandAblog .
solution7
0 2016-07-26 14:27:29
You can use $this in the template as you are in the calling file.
You only need to include the template after the ob_start command and retrieve its content:
$this->customer = 1234; //* This variable is used in the template
ob_start();
include 'template.php';
$template = ob_get_clean();
var_dump($template); //* Outputs '<b>1234</b>'
// template.php
<b><? echo $this->customer ?></b>
solution8
0 2020-04-07 11:04:20
If you are using phpmailer then try this on
// Content
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'Newsletter Mail';
$mail->Body = file_get_contents('mail.html');
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
And if you are using php mail then just need to add
$body= file_get_contents('mail.html');
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
$header.="Content-Type: text/html;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$header .="From:<no-reply@youremail.com>\r\n";
And if you are using CI(Codeigniter) then in my case I'm created mail helper of ci but rest work same
$message = $this->load->view('front/invoice_email',$data, TRUE); //"Hi, 9999999999 \r\n".";
if(!empty($adminEmail)) {
send_user_mail($adminEmail, $message, $subject);
}
solution9
0 2021-10-17 07:58:01
Yes you can send email using a email template like
$to_email = 'xyz@xzy.com';
// Set content-type header for sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
ob_start();
require __DIR__.'/email_template.php';
$htmlContent = ob_get_clean();
$subject = 'Test Emails';
// Send email
if( mail( $to_email , $subject, $htmlContent, $headers ) ) {
echo 'send';
} else {
echo 'error'; }
The benefit of this you can also pass variable as you directly use them in your email template file.
solution10
0 2022-03-04 17:25:45
try this
<?php
$to = "somebody@example.com, somebodyelse@example.com";
$subject = "HTML email";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML email</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This email contains HTML Tags!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";
// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
// More headers
$headers .= 'From: <webmaster@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: myboss@example.com' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>
solution11
-1 2014-08-27 05:28:29
Try this....
$body='<table width="90%" border="0">
<tr>
<td><b>Name:</b></td> <td>'.$name.'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Email:</b></td> <td>'.$email.'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Message:</b></td> <td>'.$message.'</td>
</tr>
<tr></table>';
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
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