I am working on a plugin that needs to send out an email after a form submission.
I am using wp_mail() for this and it works fine. My problem is that in my code the HTML is generated by a bunch of PHP strings being added to a variable like so:
$content = $html_headers;
$content .= '<h1>' . the_title($post_id) . '</h1>';
$content .= '<p>' . $post_body . '</p>;
..etc
I currently have more than 30 lines like that; and that allows me to finally do:
//add filter to allow html
add_filter('wp_mail_content_type', create_function('', 'return "text/html"; '));
//Send email
wp_mail( '[email protected]', 'mail tester', $content, 'From: some one <[email protected]>' );
//remove filter to allow html (avoids some conflict.)
remove_filter('wp_mail_content_type', create_function('', 'return "text/html"; '));
I would prefer it if I could reference a separate file that uses normal WordPress theme template-tags in order to generate the content of the mail, so that in a separate file I'd have something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" ".dtd">
<html xmlns="">
<head>
(headertags)
</head>
<body>
<h1><?php the_title($post_id); ?></h1>
<p><?php my_custom_template_body_tag(); ?></p>
</body>
</html>
but I don't know how to then return that content to the wp_mail() function. I have tried using file_get_contents() but that just ignores PHP generated content, and I've looked into the heredoc syntax. But I find that quite ugly and error prone. Do I have any other options. I really love it if I could do something like this:
$content = parse_and_return_content_of('path/to/template/file', $arg);
Thank you
I am working on a plugin that needs to send out an email after a form submission.
I am using wp_mail() for this and it works fine. My problem is that in my code the HTML is generated by a bunch of PHP strings being added to a variable like so:
$content = $html_headers;
$content .= '<h1>' . the_title($post_id) . '</h1>';
$content .= '<p>' . $post_body . '</p>;
..etc
I currently have more than 30 lines like that; and that allows me to finally do:
//add filter to allow html
add_filter('wp_mail_content_type', create_function('', 'return "text/html"; '));
//Send email
wp_mail( '[email protected]', 'mail tester', $content, 'From: some one <[email protected]>' );
//remove filter to allow html (avoids some conflict.)
remove_filter('wp_mail_content_type', create_function('', 'return "text/html"; '));
I would prefer it if I could reference a separate file that uses normal WordPress theme template-tags in order to generate the content of the mail, so that in a separate file I'd have something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3/1999/xhtml">
<head>
(headertags)
</head>
<body>
<h1><?php the_title($post_id); ?></h1>
<p><?php my_custom_template_body_tag(); ?></p>
</body>
</html>
but I don't know how to then return that content to the wp_mail() function. I have tried using file_get_contents() but that just ignores PHP generated content, and I've looked into the heredoc syntax. But I find that quite ugly and error prone. Do I have any other options. I really love it if I could do something like this:
$content = parse_and_return_content_of('path/to/template/file', $arg);
Thank you
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Reset to default 5You should use ob_get_contents()
ob_start();
include('template/email-header.php');
printf(__('<p>A very special welcome to you, %1$s. Thank you for joining %2$s!</p>', 'cell-email'), $greetings, get_bloginfo('name'));
printf(__('<p> Your password is <strong style="color:orange">%s</strong> <br> Please keep it secret and keep it safe! </p>', 'cell-email'), $plaintext_pass);
printf(__('<p>We hope you enjoy your stay at %s. If you have any problems, questions, opinions, praise, comments, suggestions, please feel free to contact us at any time</p>', 'cell-email'), get_bloginfo('name'));
include('template/email-footer.php');
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
wp_mail($user_email, $email_subject, $message);
And on the template/email-header.php, you can use
<html xmlns="http://www.w3/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta property="og:title" content="<?php echo $email_subject ?>" />
<title><?php echo $email_subject ?></title>
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="width: 100% !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; background-color: #FAFAFA;" bgcolor="#FAFAFA">
<!-- the rest of the html here -->
<?php // and php generated content if you prefer ?>
You could do something a little more like merge fields. That way you can keep your html and PHP separated by using an email template with placeholders and run a string replace on them. Something like the following:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3/1999/xhtml">
<head>
(headertags)
</head>
<body>
<h1>[POST.TITLE]</h1>
<p>[POST.CONTENT]</p>
</body>
</html>
PHP
$html_email_template_file = 'some/path/mytemplate-example.html';
// assign contents of file to $content var
$content = file_get_contents($html_email_template_file);
$content = str_replace('[POST.TITLE]', $post->post_title, $content);
$content = str_replace('[POST.CONTENT]', $post->post_excerpt, $content);
// send your email here ...