Neil,
>
> I am trying to set up a mail system that can grab text from
> a database and
> insert it into a mail message. I also need to customize the text of the
> message (e.g. Dear #first_name# evaluates to Dear John). The
> problem arises
> when I insert the mail text variable into the <cfmail> tag. The variables
> that are contained in the text message are not evaluated.
> <cfmail ..>
> #mail_message#
> </cfmail>
> This will output "Dear #first_name#, ..."
>
> How do I get the sub variable to be evaluated?
>
I haven't tried this myself, but have a go with :
<cfmail ..>
#evaluate(mail_message)#
</cfmail>
You might better off using placeholders tho.
So you'd have something like this as your text in the DB:
Dear ~firstname~ ~lastname~,
Thank you for registering your purchase of ~productname~
.
.
.
Then you read the this into your mail_message variable and use replace to
insert the data into the appropriate places before generating your email eg.
<cfset mail_message =
replace(mail_message,"~firstname~",variable.firstname,"ALL")>
[shrug] Dunno... Have a play... See what you think....
Regards
Stephen
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