Bastien Koert
On 2012-12-31, at 4:58 PM, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nelson Green <nelsongreen84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:47:20 Stephen D wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes!
>>>
>>> Easy standard stuff.
>>>
>>> $title = 'Mr.";
>>> $user_name = 'John Doe';
>>>
>>> $message = "Hello $title $user_name ...."
>>>
>>> Just define the value for the variables before defining the value for
>>> the message.
>>>
>>> Note that $message has to use double quotes for the expansion. Also
>>> consider using HEREDOC instead of the double quotes.
>>>
>>> You may want to put your message in a text file and using the include
>>> function.
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> My message is in a text file, but I'm using fopen and fread in a self-defined
>> function, so message is actually defined as (GREETER_FILE is a defined
>> constant):
>> function print_greeting($user_name)
>> {
>> $handle = fopen(GREETER_FILE, "r");
>> $message = fread($file_handle, filesize(GREETER_FILE));
>> $msg_text = str_replace("USER", $user_name, $message);
>>
>> print($msg_txt);
>> }
>>
>> And my text file is simply:
>> $cat greet.txt
>> Hello USER. How are you today?
>>
>> If I change USER to $user_name in the text file and change the print function
>> parameter to $message, $user_name gets printed verbatim. In other words
>> the greeting on my page becomes:
>> Hello $user_name. How are you today?
>>
>> I want to pass the name Nelson to the function, and have it output:
>> Hello Nelson. How are you today?
>>
>> after the function reads in text file input that contains a variable placeholder
>> for the user name. I actually had a HEREDOC in the function, and that worked.
>> But by reading a file instead, I can make things more flexible. I'd rather be
>> changing a text file instead of a code file.
>
> I use the include("template") method for this alla time, it works
> great. Most especially for HTML emails coming from a web site to a
> group of users, just slick as anything. include does basically just
> what your print_greeting function does less the actual printout, but
> using php variables instead of a str_replace. Also, this way the
> templates can be stored elsewhere, outside the actual code base if
> need be.
>
This is exactly what I do. Dead simple fast and the templates are fully self contained.
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