assign html page to a variable

Question

Is it possible to assign the contents of a simple html page to a variable?

$mail = (require("mail.html"));

The purpose is to include text from a web page in an email instead of text from a database.

[file_get_contents](http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php)? — Bogdan Kuštan, Dec 29 '14 at 10:54
I found the same question on this web ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5948395/require-include-into-variable — Apuig, Dec 29 '14 at 10:59
Many thanks Barmer and others. file_get_contents works great. — sharon, Dec 29 '14 at 11:05
Apuig: Have you marked me down? The accepted answer of the link is entirely different from the one barmer and aWebDeveloper gave which is very neat and what I was after. True, 6 answers down is a post but that was never accept nor commented on. I think this question / answer will be useful to others too. — sharon, Dec 29 '14 at 11:15

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '14 at 10:54

4

You can use file_get_contents to read the contents of a web page:

$mail = file_get_contents('mail.html');

answered Dec 29 '14 at 10:54

Barmar

aWebDeveloper · Answer 2 · 2014-12-29T11:04:35.763

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Use file_get_contents(). You can use this function to get content into a variable

$mail = file_get_contents("mail.html");

or use readfile (not recommneded though)

ob_start();
readfile("text.txt");
$data = ob_get_clean();

edited Dec 29 '14 at 11:04

answered Dec 29 '14 at 10:55

aWebDeveloper

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 10:58

0

Try this

 ob_start();
 require_once "mail.html";
 $mail = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();

answered Dec 29 '14 at 10:58

Bhavya Shaktawat

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 11:09

0

your requirment needed file_get_contents().try below code:

$mail = file_get_contents('mail.html');

answered Dec 29 '14 at 11:09

Priyank

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