NYCPHP Meetup

[Donald J Organ IV]

Why not have templates such as files that have all this stuff in it such as:


Hi %%name%%. Welcome message

%%body%%

This could be the footer


You would have that in a file then use file_get_contents() to put it all 
into one big string then you could use say

str_replace( '%%name%%', $name, $contents );
str_replace( '%%body%%', $name, $contents );

you could even use an html file as your template. I do this all that time.

Cliff Hirsch wrote:
>
> I currently generate email bodies as follows:
>
> $body = "Hi $name. Welcome message.".NEWLINE;
>
> $body .= NEWLINE;
>
> $body .= $somevariable;
>
> $body .= NEWLINE;
>
> $body .= “More body”;
>
> It works. It’s fairly easy on the eyes. But it’s laborious – and 
> hardcoded.
>
> I’m thinking of switching to:
>
> $body = <<<EOT
>
> Hi $name. Welcome message.
>
> $somevariable
>
> More body.
>
> EOT;
>
> Both approached are hard coded, which has major limitations. I’m a bit 
> concerned about how line breaks are interrupted by heredoc and 
> downstream email clients.
>
> The other alternative would be a template-driven database approach, 
> but than the body “variable” would have to be parsed every time.
>
> One though I had was to use Smarty to generate tpl files for the email 
> bodies, letting it do the parsing and compiling.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> Cliff
>
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