How to assign the contents of a file to a variable in PHP

Question

I have a document file containing HTML markup. I want to assign the contents of the entire file to a PHP variable.

I have this line of code:

$body = in

Answer 1

You have two optional choices

[Option 1]

1. Create a file called 'email_template.php'

2. inside the file add a variable like so

   $body = 'email content here';

3. in another file require_once 'email_template.php'

4. then echo $body;

[Option 2]

$body = require_once 'email_template.php';