Ah, I see. It all boils down to you getting a token and then trying to assign it with
the cfx tag. What if the cfx tag had a
parameter like:
TokenList
Where TokenList is a comma or tab-delimited list of tokens and values. For example:
<cfset tlist="Name=Member Name">
<cfset tlist=tlist&chr(9)&"Street=1243 Main St">
<cfset tlist=tlist&chr(9)&"CSZ=Tulsa, OK 74101">
<cfset tlist=tlist&chr(9)&Items=ABC XYZ">
<cfx_imsmail ... tokenlist=#tlist#" ...>
And then the cfx tag would parse out token name/value pairs from the delimited list.
Would that work for you?
Regards,
Also, we do have an iMSMail COM object that works in ColdFusion as well. With that
you can set each token one by one as you read
the file. This may be better because it is available now and I don't know how long it
would take to get a new cfx tag built.
Regards,
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [iMS] variable number of attributes passed to CFX_iMSMail?
> Howie,
>
> I am not parsing the iMS control files. My application (a legacy,
> non-relational database) needs to send emails. Its OS has no
> capacity to do so easily (WinNT). So, since we are using iMS for our
> e-commerce mail handling, we will use it to send these messages as
> well. The application creates flatfiles which contain one of three
> things: the email header, the email body (text), or the email body
> (html). My CF page reads the directory containing these files, and
> parses the email header text files. I refer to these email header
> files as "control files", since they control the options for sending
> the messages.
>
> A feature that I would like to add is to have cfx_iMSMail perform any
> mail merges instead of having the database do so. There are at least
> three database programs which build the email files, with more to
> come, so I want to make them as simple as possible. To do this, the
> DB applications create an email header file such as the following:
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Your order has shipped
> Type: HTML
> Token_Name: Member Name
> Token_Street: 1243 Main St
> Token_CSZ: Tulsa, OK 74101
> Token_Items: ABC XYZ ...
> ParseTokens: True
>
> Another DB application might create a header file as follows:
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Welcome aboard!
> Type: TEXT
> Token_Salutation: Mr. Jones
> Token_Freebie: toaster oven
> ParseTokens: True
>
> My CF app will read these files, parse and validate them, and then
> send the email messages. The "Type" is used to determine which of
> the email body files are needed. Type "MULTI" needs both text and
> html email files; Type "HTML" needs only the email html file; Type
> "TEXT" needs only the email text file. The problem I run into is
> how to pass the tokens into the cfx tag, since each DB app uses
> different fields. Since the database is non-SQL, I don't think
> there is a way for me to use queries to feed cfx_iMSMail.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Steve
>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Howie Hamlin wrote:
>
> > So, you are parsing the control file for tokens? Could you briefly explain your
>application?
> >
> > Also, just FYI, the control files are in the standard INI format.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Howie
>
>
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