PHP: Emailing HTML Body of PHP Template file

Question

I'm currently using PHP's mail() function to email the HTML Body of another PHP file using concatenation.

This is currently working fine, however, I would prefer the script to simply get the parsed HTML Body rather than using the concatenation method.

I've read a few incomplete forum posts regarding using fopen() and fread() but had no luck myself. Any output I have got to work has not parsed the PHP within the file.

Is there a function available that can do this?

Answer 1

You can do:

ob_start();
require 'some_script.php';
$html = ob_get_clean();

and then you have the output of the script.

If you need to call a URL, you can do this with cURL or alternatively you can use fopen()/fread() with a URL if that option is enabled in your PHP setup. I think the option is called allow_url_fopen or something similar.

$handle = fopen("http://www.example.com/", "r");
$output = fread($bundle, 20000);