PHP Mail Sending a dynamic PHP Contents

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I'm Creating a weekly Updates to my clients, and I want to include the latest (News, Articles, Photos) in this mail. So I created "webmail.php" page that's been created Dynamically using MySql, contains all my updates I want to send to my clients, with heavy css and html contents. I'm using this PHP code in my script

ob_start();
include ('webmail.php');
$content = ob_get_clean();
$message = $content;
mail($email,$subject,$message,$headers);

The problem is I'm facing (500 Internal Server Error). I'm sure that my webmail.php contains no errors and this problem happens because this page has been created Dynamically. Any Idea to solve this problem?. Thanks

if your php had no errors, then you wouldn't be getting a 500. Check your webserver's error log for more details. What you've posted is semantically correct PHP, and is absolutely useless for debugging, because that code snippet has NOTHING wrong with it. Whatever the bug is, it's inside webmail.php, which you haven't shown at all — Marc B
– Marc B, Commented Mar 6, 2014 at 1:23

John WH Smith · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-06 01:29:50Z

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I think you're missing a point there... If webmail.php is dynamically generated (which means it actually contains your information), then you can read its contents using :

$news = file_get_contents("webmail.php");

and just send $news as your email body. However, if webmail.php actually generates the content (which means it produces it when passed to the PHP interpretor), then maybe you should consider using a function in this file instead :

webmail.php

function latest_news(){
    // Gets news from database, put them into $news.
    return $news;
}

Then, on your first page (sending the email) :

include_once("webmail.php"); // Get the function.
mail("[email protected]", "Our latest news", latest_news());

edited Mar 6, 2014 at 1:29

answered Mar 6, 2014 at 1:24

John WH Smith

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