Php Template not rendering when sent in email

Question

I am trying to send an email to the user and support team when the support form is filled out. Currently the email gets sent but the template does not get rendered. Here is the file that parses and send the emails.

<?php
// Sanitize Data
$data = $_POST;

$user_name    = filter_var( $data[ 'name' ], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );
$user_email   = filter_var( $data[ 'email' ], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL );
$user_phone   = filter_var( $data[ 'phone' ], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );
$user_message = filter_var( $data[ 'message' ], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );

if ( is_ajax() )
  {
    if ( isset( $data['action'] ) && !empty( $data['action'] ) ) {
      //if action value exists
      $action = $data[ 'action' ];

      switch( $action ) { //Switch case for value of action
        case "support-request": support_request( $user_name, $user_email ); break;
      }
    }

  }


class OHDC_Email
  {

    // Render view template
    public function render( $file, $data = false )
      {
        $file = dirname( __FILE__ ) . 'emails/views/checkout-support-' . $file . '.php';

        if ( !file_exists( $file ) )
        {
         return false;
        }

        if ( $data )
        {
         extract( $data );
        }

        ob_start();
        include $file;
        $body = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();
        return $body;
      }



    public function send( $to, $subject, $file, $data )
      {
        // Always set content-type when sending HTML email
        $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

        // More headers
        $headers .= 'From: <program@100daychallenge.com>' . "\r\n";

          // render email view
        $body = $this->render( $file, $data );

        mail( $to, $subject, $body, $headers );

      }
  }


// Verify ajax request
function is_ajax()
  {
    return isset( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' ] ) && strtolower( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' ] ) == 'xmlhttprequest';
  }

// Send support emails return response with status to ajax call.
function support_request( $user_name, $user_email )
  {
    $to = $user_email;

    // send email to prospect
    $prospect_email = new OHDC_Email();

    $prospect_subject = 'Challenge Support Request';

    $prospect_file = 'prospect';

    $prospect_data = array();

    $prospect_data['name'] = $user_name;


    $prospect_email->send( $to, $prospect_subject, $prospect_file, $prospect_data );

    // send email to support team


    $response = array(
      'status' => 'success',
      'name' => $user_name
    );

    $output = json_encode( $response );

    exit($output);

    die();
  }
?>

Problem

Currently the email gets sent and a success response gets returned but the email is sent with an empty body

any help would be much appreciated Here is a snapshot of the working directory http://cl.ly/1w1J1S140x3M

and here is a link to a gist of the template - https://gist.github.com/vincebrown/97fc33937ab506064a66

Answer 1 · 2016-02-22T13:52:37Z

February 22, 2016 1:52pm

1st thing to look at is to see if the file actually exists, because if it does not then the body is returned as false. In your render function change this

if ( !file_exists( $file ) )
        {
         return false;
        }

to maybe this

if ( !file_exists( $file ) )
{
    return "File not found: " . $file;
}

at least to debug

also you are not doing anything with this code in the render function

if ( $data )
{
  extract( $data );
}

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