Question

I have a newsletter template in one file and a mail script in another file which basically pulls email addresses from a database and loops through each one sending the email to them.

I am using this code to get the contents of the newsletter template:

$content = file_get_contents('attach/T_newsletter.php');

What I need to do now is send PHP variables along with this eg:

T_newsletter.php?test=hello

and then be able to pull them from the URL in the template and adjust the content accordingly.

Could someone explain how I would do this please?

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

If you want to do that, you will need to call that file “T_newsletter.php” as part of a URL:

$content = file_get_contents("http://yourdomain.com/T_newsletter.php?test=hello");

and inside T_newsletter.php:

<?php
  $v = $_GET['test']; // this will be 'hello'

  if($v == 'hello')
  {
    ...
  }
  else
  {
    ...
  }
?>

The other option would be to use a template engine like Twig or Smarty to parse the files directly if you do not wish to make an HTTP request.