How can PHP be used to interpret variables in mail documents to hide email addresses?

To hide email addresses in mail documents using PHP, you can use variables to store the email addresses and then echo them out in the mail document. This way, the actual email addresses are not directly visible in the source code.

<?php
$email = 'example@example.com';
$name = 'John Doe';

$mail_body = "Hello $name, please contact us at <a href='mailto:$email'>$email</a>.";

// Rest of the code to send the email
?>