I've posted this a few weeks ago with no response. I want to use an
external
"email template" as it were, so that the sales guys can edit it as they
like and simply shuffle the variables around that they need
$username and $password (either with or without the <?php ?> tags).
I don't want them mucking around in my code and potentially screwing it
up. Not to mention having a huge 'email' text in between those
HTMLMESSAGE markers is ugly as hell and ends up making the color-coding
in HomeSite all kinds of whack at the end of it.
I tried to use:
$message = <<<HTMLMESSAGE
include("/pathto/customer_email.php");
HTMLMESSAGE;
But $message has the literal string
''include("/pathto/customer_email.php");'' instead of including the
file. Grr.. (wouldn't it make sense that an include() should be parsed
FIRST with the contents put in place basically? This seems like a 'bug'
not a feature.
I also tried:
$filename = "/pathto/customer_email.php";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$message = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);
But all the $username, etc. are treated as literals and if I use
<?=$username?> in the customer_email.php the field is blank (like it's
being parsed but doesn't have a value for it or something), instead of
being converted to their actual PHP values. I also tried to put the
"global" keyword in the customer_email.php file at the top.
Ideally I would like to set things up so we have varoius form letter
emails and I can switch them around based upon say a "special order
code", where the $user/$pw is always the same (depending on the database
user of course), but the email content is different formats.
Is there no way to accomplish this? Am I not being clear on what it is
I'm trying to accomplish?
My final thought is to use some regex to search for <?=$username?> in
$message after it's all been read in, and replace it with the variable
$username or make up my own tag codes like [!username!] or something
like that. This seems like such a hack, when PHP should be able to do
this natively somehow.
Surely somebody out there has had to do this type of thing?
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