Oooh I like the sound of that - very inventive.

 

So your HTML templates work very much like views with data passed into them
via the ViewCollection?

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Dennis Clark
Sent: 03 August 2009 16:27
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Model-Glue] Re: sending emails from MG.

 

I took a similar approach with HTML templates, but instead of rolling my own
template processing I had my "controller" code create its own ViewCollection
and ViewRenderer instances using the internal Model-Glue CFCs.

I know this is an undocumented and unsupported use of those CFCs but using
them saved me a lot of time up front, and even if a future update of MG
broke the code I can't imagine it would be too difficult to fix.

-- Dennis



On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, James Allen <[email protected]>
wrote:


I use HTML templates that do sit within my views folder but they are read in
via my EmailService (inside the email bean) and then sent out that way.

I like this as it means anyone could edit the templates (I use placeholders
for replaceable content). Also keeps them nicely located. I recently had to
send them all to a colleague who needed to make text changes but is not
technical at all.

Works well.

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James Allen
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Sir Rawlins
Sent: 01 August 2009 16:03
To: model-glue
Subject: [Model-Glue] sending emails from MG.


Hello Guys,

I wanted to get your opinions on how you distribute emails from within
your MG apps. I'm sure I remember reading a thread a while back about
how some people consider an email a 'view' and so would render the
HTML as a view, this I guess was called from the model using an cfhttp
call or something? and then distributed.

I myself have always just used a cfsavecontent tag in the model which
saves the HTML into a variable, this is then passed to a mailerservice
which contains all my POP/SMTP settings and this actually does the job
of sending the email.

I wanted to see what others were doing as for me having the HTML mixed
in the model always felt a little messy to me.

Cheers guys, appreciate your thoughts.

Rob








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