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Load an Email Body from a File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file. The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes. This example loads a plain-text body as utf-8.

Background: Message bodies are often authored and stored as separate files — a marketing team might maintain an HTML template, or a script might generate a text body on the fly. LoadBodyFromFile reads such a file straight into the email, with the isHtml flag telling Chilkat whether to treat it as an HTML or plain-text body and the charset ensuring non-ASCII characters decode correctly.

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<?php

$success = 0;

//  Demonstrates the LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file.
//  The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a
//  plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes.

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Body loaded from a file';

//  Load a plain-text body (isHtml = false) using the utf-8 charset.
$success = $email->LoadBodyFromFile('qa_data/txt/body.txt',0,'utf-8');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print $email->Body . "\n";

//  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
//  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

?>