Importing HTML from file into PHP variable - php

Question

I am trying to parse some HTML from files into a PHP variable to send across HTML email, but I am struggling. It doesn't output anything at all when loaded. Only the submit button is echoed. What am I doing wrong? I know it's probably a lot, but can someone please advise me on how to get this to work?
I will end up using AJAX for the submit button so the page isn't reloaded, but the content (at the moment) isn't even displaying. It's a lot of code, so I decided to break it up into files to make it easier to read and easier to inject.
<?php
// Setting mail options
$to = $_POST["clientemail"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
// Are we debugging?
$debug = true;
// Set content-type header for sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: CodexWorld<"postmaster#intel-web.co.uk">' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: b.ravetta#gmail.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: admin#intel-web.co.uk' . "\r\n";
// Place all HTML content into one big fucking message.
$head = file_get_contents("head.html");
$body = file_get_contents("body.html");
$footnotes = file_get_contents("footer.html");
if($_POST["packageid"] == 1)
{
$content = file_get_contents("fb.html");
}
if($_POST["packageid"] == 2)
{
$content = file_get_contents("aw.html");
}
if($_POST["packageid"] == 3)
{
$content = file_get_contents("mobi.html");
};
$messagecontent =
echo $head;
echo $body;
echo $content;
echo $footnotes;
;
// Where the message content ends.
echo "<form method='POST' action=''>
<input type='submit' name='sendmail' value='Send Email'>
</form>";
if (isset($_POST['sendmail']))
if(mail($to,$subject,$messagecontent,$headers)):
$successMsg = 'Email has sent successfully.';
else:
$errorMsg = 'Email sending fail.';
endif;
// Debug Shit
if ($debug)
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting("E_STRICT")
?>

Answer 1

I'm surprised that you even get a submit button at all. Because
$messagecontent =
echo $head;
echo $body;
echo $content;
echo $footnotes;
;
should actually raise a syntax error for an unexpected T_ECHO.
If you want to concatenate a string, that's how you do it:
$messagecontent = $head . $body . $content . $footnotes;
If you fix that, you will still only get the submit button after submitting the form, because while you will send the mail, you do nothing with your success / error message. You might want to do something like
if (isset($_POST['sendmail'])) {
if(mail($to,$subject,$messagecontent,$headers)) {
$successMsg = 'Email has sent successfully.';
echo $successMsg;
} else {
$errorMsg = 'Email sending fail.';
echo $errorMsg;
}
}
(Note: I also changed the syntax of your if statements to an accepted standard. see http://www.php-fig.org/psr/)
Also, you might want to change the error reporting settings in the php.ini and not in the file. Because if you do have a parse error, you won't see it (because the file can't be parsed and so display_errors won't get set to 1.