Send an email templating during a include in PHP - php

Question

I try to send a email with templates. I have severals templates (one to reset password, one to upgrade the account, ...).
All of these templates are stored in a mail directory and it looks like this:
<?php
// Template to reset password
$message = "Hello Mr, ...";
$subject = "Your new password";
$email = "mr#company.com";
?>
Now I have a function:
function sendMail($template, $USR_Id) {
ob_start();
include 'mail/'.$template.'.php';
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// Start configuring the email
$headers .= 'From: company <noreply#company.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
My problem:
How to get back the infos store in my template files (i.e.: $subject and $email) ?

Answer 1

Good to see you using my previously suggested setup. That setup depended on the echo however, and if you're not using that you can make your function even simpler. If your templates look like that; you can simply do:
function sendMail($template, $USR_Id) {
include 'mail/'.$template.'.php';
// Start configuring the email
$headers .= 'From: company <noreply#company.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
If you use include / require; you can use all variables across multiple files