how do i echo php var in html - php

Question

am working on a website for my client, i want the application to read the content of the html and send an email to the customer's email, but i want to display some variables which the customer entered in the html content and send it via email. This is my code.
this is the html code:
<p> {$cname} </p>
<p> Thank you for contacting our support team. A support ticket has now been opened for your request. You will be notified when a response is made by email. The details of your ticket are shown below. </p>
<p> Subject: {$sub} <br />
Priority: {$prio} <br />
Status: Open </p>
<p> Thanks as always for being our customer.<br />
<br />
Regards,</p></td>
this is my php code:
<?php
//error_reporting(E_ALL);
error_reporting(E_STRICT);
date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');
require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$_SESSION['studentid'] = $_POST['sid'];
$_SESSION['cname'] = $_POST['namee'];
$_SESSION['email'] = $_POST['email'];
$_SESSION['department'] = $_POST['department'];
$_SESSION['priority'] = $_POST['priority'];
$_SESSION['subjectd'] = $_POST['subject'];
$_SESSION['commentc'] = $_POST['message'];
$cname =$_SESSION['cname'];
$detailz = $_SESSION['commentc'];
$email = $_SESSION['email'];
$cname = $_SESSION['cname'];
$ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$prio =$_SESSION['priority'];
$stid = $_SESSION['studentid'];
$dept = $_SESSION['department'];
$sub = $_SESSION['subjectd'];
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body = preg_replace('/[\]/','',$body);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = $row_prs['shost']; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = $row_prs['shost']; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = $row_prs['portx']; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = $row_prs['susername']; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = $row_prs['spassword']; // SMTP account password
$mail->SetFrom($row_pr['from'], $row_pr['sname']);
//$mail->AddReplyTo("name#yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject = "[Ticket ID:" .$tno."]".$sub;
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = $_SESSION['emid'];
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");
//$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment
//$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>

Answer 1

Try this,
<p> <?php echo $cname; ?> </p>
<p> Thank you for contacting our support team. A support ticket has now been opened for your request. You will be notified when a response is made by email. The details of your ticket are shown below. </p>
<p> Subject: <?php echo $sub; ?> <br />
Priority: <?php echo $prio; ?> <br />
Status: Open </p>
<p> Thanks as always for being our customer.<br />
<br />
Regards,</p></td>

Answer 2

You are store the data in session. So you can use those to show it back. Use this
<p> <?php echo $_SESSION['cname'] ?> </p>
<p> Thank you for contacting our support team. A support ticket has now been opened for your request. You will be notified when a response is made by email. The details of your ticket are shown below. </p>
<p> Subject: <?php echo $_SESSION[' subjectd'] ?> <br />
Priority: <?php echo $_SESSION['priority'] ?> <br />
Status: Open </p>
<p> Thanks as always for being our customer.<br />
<br />
Regards,</p>
Your data already sotred in session. So till session get distroyed you can use those variable as well.

Answer 3

some ref , but is just replace test '{$XXX}' , not are real php var
$replace_values = array(
'$cname' => $_SESSION['cname'],
);
$result = preg_replace_callback('!\{(\$\w+)\}!', function($ma) use ($replace_values) {
if(isset($ma[1]) && isset($replace_values[$ma[1]])){
return $replace_values[$ma[1]];
}
return '';
}, $body);
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Answer 4

this is the code that worked, I just want to say thank you to you guys that answered my question but i just want a BIG THANK YOU to JOE LEE. I own you a bottle of beer. Respect
///to get the content of the html and replace it with the variables
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$replace_values = array(
'$cname' => $_SESSION['cname'],
'$prio' => $_SESSION['priority'],
'$sub' => $_SESSION['subjectd'],
);
$result =preg_replace_callback('!\{(\$\w+)\}!', function($ma) use ($replace_values) {
if(isset($ma[1]) && isset($replace_values[$ma[1]])){
return $replace_values[$ma[1]];
}
return '';
}, $body);
////
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = $row_prs['shost']; // SMTP server
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = $row_prs['shost']; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = $row_prs['portx']; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = $row_prs['susername']; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = $row_prs['spassword']; // SMTP account password
$mail->SetFrom($row_prs['from'], $row_prs['sname']);
//$mail->AddReplyTo("name#yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject = "[Ticket ID:" .$tno."]".$sub;
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($result);