Calling a Function inside the SendMail

[Syl]

Hi Group - I have a function to send an email to a client after they
have successfully submitted a form on my site. I have a 2nd function
that prints their input to the browser as a confirmation.

I'd like to be able to include that print function inside my mail
message like this :

function sendToClient($e mail) {
$subject = 'Confirmation';
-----> $message = printConfirm($l ang); <----
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
<snip>, etc
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

This way I don't have to duplicate the output. The confirmation will
get printed to the browser AND the exact same content will be emailed.

When I executer this the email is blank.

Any expert ideas out there ?

[Martyr2]

Re: Calling a Function inside the SendMail

Remember that variables inside a function like this are treated as
local variables unless specified by the "global" keyword. Since I don't
see you defining the variable $lang in your function, it is empty and
thus no message is returned.

Fix - Either define the $lang as "global" in the function (that is if
$lang is defined outside the function) or the better way is to be sure
to pass the $lang variable as a parameter to this function.

Here is a resource link to what I am talking about... it is a variable
scoping issue I am guessing from what I see there.

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php

Hope this helps :)

[Syl]

Re: Calling a Function inside the SendMail

Hi Martry2 - thanks for going over this in detail.

The lang variable *is* actually global in scope, but there are other
parameters that are required that I did NOT make global - so this
should be the resolve!

thanks again!