How can I add an expression inside the $mail-> Body in phpMailer?

LOTUSMS
February 9, 2023
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3 Answers

The phone number in a form isn’t required. I would like to hide the label if the phone number field didn’t collect any data.

Something like this in theory?

$mail->Body = "
  <p><strong>Name: </strong> $full_name</p> 
  <p><strong>Email: </strong> $email</p>". 
  if ($phone !== ''){
    echo '<p><strong>Phone: </strong> $phone</p>';
  } else {
    echo '';
  } . "
  <p><strong>Message: </strong> $message</p> 
";

But is not the right syntax. How can I do this? p.s. a Ternary expression would even be cleaner, but it didn’t work either

Tags: php phpmailer

Answers

- Justinas
- February 9, 2023 at 8:37 pm
- 0 votes
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Don’t echo, append content:
```
$mail->Body = "Name: $full_name 
 Email: $email";
 
 if ($phone !== ''){
 $mail->Body .= 'Phone: $phone';
 }

 $mail->Body .= 'Message: $message';
```
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- TimRoberts
- February 9, 2023 at 8:39 pm
- 0 votes
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Another alternative, which works better in some situations:
```
if( $phone )
 $phone = "Phone: $phone";
$mail->Body = "Name: $full_name 
 Email: $email
 $phone
 Message: $message";
```
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- KibongoSimonPeter
- February 9, 2023 at 8:49 pm
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```
$string = "
 Name: $full_name 
 Email: $email". 
 ($phone !== '' ? 'Phone: $phone' : '').
"Message: $message";
$mail->Body = $string;
```
This is easier. Make the string first then append the string to the body of the mail.
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