Parsing a variable with variables in it

[LANcaster]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with this.
I have a mail command as follows:

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<?
mail("$to_email","$subject","$content","From: $from_address");
?>

I need to be able to read the variable '$content' in from a database. '$content' will read something like this:
"Hi $fname,
Your account is as follows:
Username: $username
Password: $password".
So I need PHP to parse '$content' and fill in the variables within it ($fname, $username, $password), however when I run the script I get the following email:

From: address@domain.com
Subject: Subject
Content: Hi $fname,
Your account is as follows:
Username: $username
Password: $password

Thanks in advance.

[Oleg Butuzov]

mail with headers...

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$mymail="uadude@hotmail.com";
$subj="Hello, dude!";
$usermessage="Best regards. chao.";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
 $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1251\r\n";
 $headers .= "From: Pejone <pejone@ukr.net>\r\n";
 $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
 $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
 $headers .= "X-Mailer: Pejone Feedback Form Mailer aka PFFM v1.0.2 special for alesh.ru\r\n";
 
mail($mymail, $subj, $usermessage, $headers);


[LANcaster]

Hi Pejone,
Thanks for your help, but I think you may has missunderstood what it is I wish to accomplish. I need to use a variable which I have pulled from a database earlier in the script that contains variables which I need PHP to then parse before sending the email. I need this for a program I am writing in PHP which sends out emails and the email 'templates' need to be easily modifyable.
Thanks again.

[Oleg Butuzov]

Use fast tempelates for making $content =)

[LANcaster]

Thanks again for your help Pejone, I really appreciate it.
I will have a good look at fast templates later this evening, but just out of interest can you think of any other way of doing this?

[Oleg Butuzov]

I don like Fasttempelates, so i use functions

for exemple

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fucntion message_to_sent($Name, $Password, $email, $mymail)
{
$content="Hello $Name
Your login : $Name
Your pass: $Password

Bla-bla-bla...
Bye.
";

mail("$Name <$email>", "Subject", $content ,"From:  $mymail");
}

[Redcircle]

I've never looked at fast templates befor but here is what I would do.

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<?php
$content = "From: address@domain.com
Subject: Subject
Content: Hi [fname],
Your account is as follows:
Username: [username]
Password: [password]";

$content = str_replace('[fname]',$fname,$content);
$content = str_replace('[username]',$username,$content);
$content = str_replace('[password]',$password,$content);
?>






[LANcaster]

Thanks Redcircle, what you suggested works perfectly, I really appreciate your help.