Email HTML page contents using PHP

Design Gala — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:50:44 +0000

Earlier post explained on how to send a plain email using PHP. This time, we are discussing about sending page contents to email. This technique is based on output buffering. Basically, it would first create read a html file and store in buffer using ob_start(). Next step is to include desire HTML page using include function and then store the contents of that HTML page using ob_get_contents(). Finally use mail() function to send email.

While output buffering is turned on no output is sent from then script. The output is stored in an internal buffer.

ob_start();
include_once("samplepage.html");
$buffer = 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: '.SENDER_NAME.' <'.SENDER_EMAIL.'> ' . "\r\n";
 
$to_email = 'email@example.net';
$subject = 'Your Desired Email Subject';
 
mail($to_email, $subject, $buffer, $headers);

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Email HTML page contents using PHP

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