RE: [PHP] insert html into php variable

[Robert Cummings]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:27 +0000, Edward Kay wrote:
> > I am using phpmailer for a rich html mailer and I have been using
> > lines like
> > this to build up the mailbody
> >
> > $mail_body .= "<div align=\"center\"><img
> > src=\"http://www.myurl.org/mylogo.gif\";;
> >
> > Is there a  build in function to assign html code to a php
> > variable and then
> > output them? Or can I read an external php file into a variable?
> >
> 
> Have a look at the heredoc syntax for declaring strings:
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.
> syntax.heredoc
> 
> I find it really useful for these situations.

I think, from his post, he'd be better with output buffering:

<?php

    ob_start();
    include( 'someFile.php' );
    $content = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();

?>

Cheers,
Rob.
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