How to get PHP variable from another file?

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I'm trying to make a forgot password system with PHPMailer on xampp. But when I send an email,the email body is a html mail template,what I get from another file $mail->Body = file_get_contents('mail_template.php');,and I have problem,because I don't know how should I get the data of the $url variable and send it to mail_template.php file to use it for the link in the mail. I tried the include 'filename.php'; command,but haven't worked.

Here is the code:

if (isset($_POST["submitButton"])) {
    $emailTo = $_POST["email"];

    $code = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
    $query = $con->prepare("INSERT INTO resetpasswords(code,email) VALUES('$code', '$emailTo')");
    $query->execute();
    if (!$query) {
        exit("Something went wrong...");
    }

    $mail = new PHPMailer(true);

    try {
        //Server settings                                           // Enable verbose debug output
        $mail->isSMTP();                                            // Send using SMTP
        $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';                    // Set the SMTP server to send through
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                                   // Enable SMTP authentication
        $mail->Username = '[email protected]';                     // SMTP username
        $mail->Password = 'password';                               // SMTP password
        $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';         // Enable TLS encryption; `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` encouraged
        $mail->Port = 465;                                    // TCP port to connect to, use 465 for `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` above

        //Recipients
        $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Email');
        $mail->addAddress($emailTo);     // Add a recipient
        $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'No reply');


        // Content
        $url = "http://" . $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . dirname($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]) . "/resetPassword/code/$code";
        $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML
        $mail->Subject = 'Reset your password!';
        $mail->Body = file_get_contents('mail_template.php');
        $mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

        $mail->send();
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo "Message could not be sent. Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
    }
    header("refresh:10;url=login.php");
}

So from this php file,I want to send the data of the $url to the mail_template.php

Is this possible to do?

Please show us the contents of mail_template.php so we can see where/how it is expecting to receive the URL. — kmoser
– kmoser, Commented Sep 19, 2020 at 20:09
The mail_template.php is 121 row length. So I think there is no reason to show the full data. Here is a short code from the file: <a data-click-track-id="37" href="<?php echo $url; ?>" style=".........">Reset Password </a> — StereoMC
– StereoMC, Commented Sep 19, 2020 at 20:13
Does this answer your question? PHP Eval that evaluates HTML & PHP — kmoser
– kmoser, Commented Sep 19, 2020 at 20:29

Temidayo Dtuzzy Omotayo · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-19 19:48:11Z

0

To send data to another url in php you have to try the following url:

`[email protected]`

then inside an empty mail_template.php do -

 <?php 
    if (isset($_GET['data'])) {
      $test = $_GET['data'];
//print the data added to the url
      echo $test;
    }
    ?>

answered Sep 19, 2020 at 19:48

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