Get Email Message from File

[jrsjrs]

<?php $to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "[e-mail]";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";?>

The above is the standard example for a simple email sender.
I have long letters in text and doc formats. Call them letter.txt. or letter.doc
How can I have the computer read the documents into the "$message" line?
The following line does not work.
$message=letter.txt;
How can I get it to work properly?
Or is this just impossible to do?

[ronverdonk]

Use the file_get_contents command, reading the entire file into a string.

[PHP]<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = file_get_contents("file.txt");
$from = "[e-mail]";
$headers = "From: $from";
if (mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers))
echo "Mail Sent";
else
echo "Mail message failed";
?>[/PHP]

Info on the command (and error handling) can be found at http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/functio...t-contents.php

Ronald :cool:

[jrsjrs]

Thank you very much ronverdonk!
That was a completely new php command for me.
I spent at least 6 hours trying to solve this problem unsuccessfully.
Incidentally, it works fine with text files, but not with .doc files.
I learn something new every day.
Thanks also to this great website - "thescripts".