Send email with a template using php

Question

How can I send an email using php then add a template design in the email? I\'m using this:

$to = \"someone@example.com\";  
$subject = \"Test mail\";  
$mes         


        

Answer 1

Lets have a small crack at this :)

class Emailer
{
    var $recipients = array();
    var $EmailTemplate;
    var $EmailContents;

    public function __construct($to = false)
    {
        if($to !== false)
        {
            if(is_array($to))
            {
                foreach($to as $_to){ $this->recipients[$_to] = $_to; }
            }else
            {
                $this->recipients[$to] = $to; //1 Recip
            }
        }
    }

    function SetTemplate(EmailTemplate $EmailTemplate)
    {
        $this->EmailTemplate = $EmailTemplate;            
    }

    function send() 
    {
        $this->EmailTemplate->compile();
        //your email send code.
    }
}

Notice the function SetTemplate() ...

Heres a a small template class

class EmailTemplate
{
    var $variables = array();
    var $path_to_file= array();
    function __construct($path_to_file)
    {
         if(!file_exists($path_to_file))
         {
             trigger_error('Template File not found!',E_USER_ERROR);
             return;
         }
         $this->path_to_file = $path_to_file;
    }

    public function __set($key,$val)
    {
        $this->variables[$key] = $val;
    }


    public function compile()
    {
        ob_start();

        extract($this->variables);
        include $this->path_to_file;


        $content = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();

        return $content;
    }
}

Here's a small example, you still need to do the core of the script but this will provide you with a nice layout to get started with.

$emails = array(
    'bob@bobsite.com',
    'you@yoursite.com'
);

$Emailer = new Emailer($emails);
 //More code here

$Template = new EmailTemplate('path/to/my/email/template');
    $Template->Firstname = 'Robert';
    $Template->Lastname = 'Pitt';
    $Template->LoginUrl= 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3706855/send-email-with-a-template-using-php';
    //...

$Emailer->SetTemplate($Template); //Email runs the compile
$Emailer->send();

Thats really all there is to it, just have to know how to use objects and its pretty simple from there, ooh and the template would look a little something like this:

Welcome to my site,

Dear <?php echo $Firstname ?>, You have been registered on our site.

Please visit <a href="<?php echo $LoginUrl ?>">This Link</a> to view your upvotes

Regards.

Answer 2

        $message_to_client = file_get_contents("client_email.html");
        //$message_to_client = "bla bla {{ EMAIL }} bla bla";


        $variables = array(
            'SITE_TITLE' => $SITE_TITLE,
            'SITE_LOGO' => $SITE_LOGO,
            'SITE_URL' => $SITE_URL,
            'CLIENT_NAME' => strip_tags($data->clientname),
            'PHONE' => strip_tags($data->phone),
            'EMAIL' => strip_tags($data->email),
            'CITY' => strip_tags($data->city),
            'REGION' => strip_tags($data->region),
            'COMMENT' => htmlentities($data->comment)                
        );

        $message_to_client = preg_replace_callback('/{{([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]*?)}}/i',
             function($match) use ($variables) { 
                 return  $variables[$match[1]]; 
        }, $message_to_client );

Answer 3

First, you have to make a HTML template:

<form action="#" id="ContactForm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="background-color:#CCCCCC; text-align:center;">
        <tr>
             <td width="15%">Name:</td>
             <td width="85%"><input name="name" type="text" required></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
             <td>Email:</td>
             <td><input name="email" type="email" required></td>
         </tr>

         <tr>
             <td colspan="2"><input name="sub" type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
         </tr>

     </table>                      
</form>

Below code is the mailing code that uses the template.

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    $name=$_REQUEST['name'];
    $email=$_REQUEST['email'];
    $to=$email; //change to ur mail address
    $subject="UandBlog - Send Email Template Demo";
    $message =  file_get_contents('Your template path'); // Your Template        
    $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
    $headers .= "From: noreply@uandblog.com"; 

    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 
}

You can also download the full code with the template from UandAblog.

Answer 4

Create your template file, e.g,

/path/to/templates/template.twig:

Dear {{name}},

Thank you for writing to us about {{subject}}.

Then follow the instructions at https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/api.html to install and use the twig templating engine with Composer

require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

$loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('/path/to/templates');
$twig = new Twig_Environment($loader, array());

Then render and send your email:

$to = "someone@example.com";  
$subject = "Test mail";  
$message = $twig->render('template.twig', array(
   'name' => 'Fred',
   'subject' => 'philately',
));
$from = "someonelse@example.com";  
$headers = "From: $from";  
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);  

Answer 5

You can use $this in the template as you are in the calling file.

You only need to include the template after the ob_start command and retrieve its content:

$this->customer = 1234;    //* This variable is used in the template
ob_start();
include 'template.php';
$template = ob_get_clean();
var_dump($template);      //* Outputs '<b>1234</b>'

// template.php
<b><? echo $this->customer ?></b>

Answer 6

If you are using phpmailer then try this on

// Content
$mail->isHTML(true); 
$mail->Subject = 'Newsletter Mail';
$mail->Body = file_get_contents('mail.html');
if (!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

And if you are using php mail then just need to add

$body= file_get_contents('mail.html');
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
$header.="Content-Type: text/html;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$header .="From:<no-reply@youremail.com>\r\n";

And if you are using CI(Codeigniter) then in my case I'm created mail helper of ci but rest work same

$message = $this->load->view('front/invoice_email',$data, TRUE); //"Hi, 9999999999 \r\n".";
if(!empty($adminEmail)) {
  send_user_mail($adminEmail, $message, $subject);
}