Variable within a variable
How can you display a variable within a variable? I have a client who needs to control the content of all email notices that go out to their clients. Email notices have some dynamic content such as grabbing customer name or account details. The value of the email notice content is stored in a variable called #emailContent# and I would like it to have a value of something like this (where it contains varibles within itself): Dear #customer#, Email content email content...your account expires on #expiryDate#. However, when the variable #emailContent# is outputted within a CFMAIL tag the variables #customer# and #expiryDate# just get shown as is with the hash marks. How can I output the variables within the variable? Thanks! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317147 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Variable within a variable
There's no simple way to do this (as far as I'm aware) in ColdFusion. BlueDragon has a very useful function - Render() - which will parse the contents of a variable, exactly as you describe. But on ColdFusion, I've always handled cases like this by having my templates as flat files to be included; the variables within them get processed as normal. Seb Seb Duggan Web ColdFusion Developer e: s...@sebduggan.com t: 07786 333184 w: http://sebduggan.com On 27 Dec 2008, at 13:14, Maya MacDonald wrote: How can you display a variable within a variable? I have a client who needs to control the content of all email notices that go out to their clients. Email notices have some dynamic content such as grabbing customer name or account details. The value of the email notice content is stored in a variable called #emailContent# and I would like it to have a value of something like this (where it contains varibles within itself): Dear #customer#, Email content email content...your account expires on #expiryDate#. However, when the variable #emailContent# is outputted within a CFMAIL tag the variables #customer# and #expiryDate# just get shown as is with the hash marks. How can I output the variables within the variable? Thanks! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317148 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Variable within a variable
Seb, Thank you for the reply. I am not quite sure I am following how I would include this as a flat file? Thanks, Devin ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317149 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Variable within a variable
Maya, When you're setting up your initial variable, can't you do something like cfset variables.emailMessage = Dear variables.customerName chr(10) chr(13) Message here / - then you're combining the variables before you use them... David 2008/12/27 Maya MacDonald devinpar...@hotmail.com: Seb, Thank you for the reply. I am not quite sure I am following how I would include this as a flat file? Thanks, Devin ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Variable within a variable
Does evaluate do the trick? cfmail...#Evaluate(emailContent)#/cfmail Dominic ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317151 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Variable within a variable
On another note - I have done something similar for a client where they could setup various email templates. What I did was to give them a set of keys they could use in their email body that would be replaced with the relevent data. The options I gave them were like: [title], [firstname], [lastname], etc Then when it came to sending the email I did a group of replace statements on the template body: cfset emailContent= Replace(emailContent, '[title]', user.title)/ cfset emailContent= Replace(emailContent, '[firstname]', user.firstname)/ ... etc Dominic 2008/12/27 Dominic Watson watson.domi...@googlemail.com: Does evaluate do the trick? cfmail...#Evaluate(emailContent)#/cfmail Dominic ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317152 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Variable within a variable
Thanks Dominic I'll give that a try! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Variable within a variable
Either: 1. Have a separate file with just the content of the email, including the variables you want replaced, and include it in your cfmail like this: cfmail ... cfinclude template=myemailtemplate.cfm / /cfmail or: 2. If your template text is in a database, you could generate a temp file on the fly with the template text in it, then include that file as above. I'm not sure what the performance implications of this would be, but you'd have to weigh that against how often the process is called. Alternatively, generate the appropriate flat file whenever the template is updated. But I've also used Dominic's method of replaceing a [variable] token in the template using Replace(). Seb Seb Duggan Web ColdFusion Developer e: s...@sebduggan.com t: 07786 333184 w: http://sebduggan.com On 27 Dec 2008, at 13:38, Maya MacDonald wrote: Seb, Thank you for the reply. I am not quite sure I am following how I would include this as a flat file? Thanks, Devin Seb Duggan Web ColdFusion Developer e: s...@sebduggan.com t: 07786 333184 w: http://sebduggan.com ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317154 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Variable within a variable
Assuming your email message is _not_ in the database, just use cfsavecontent and appropriately nested cfoutput. cfsavecontent variable=emailContent cfoutput pDear #customer#:/p pPay your $(*ing bill already./p /cfoutput /cfsavecontent -Original Message- From: Seb Duggan [mailto:s...@sebduggan.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:59 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Variable within a variable Either: 1. Have a separate file with just the content of the email, including the variables you want replaced, and include it in your cfmail like this: cfmail ... cfinclude template=myemailtemplate.cfm / /cfmail or: 2. If your template text is in a database, you could generate a temp file on the fly with the template text in it, then include that file as above. I'm not sure what the performance implications of this would be, but you'd have to weigh that against how often the process is called. Alternatively, generate the appropriate flat file whenever the template is updated. But I've also used Dominic's method of replaceing a [variable] token in the template using Replace(). Seb Seb Duggan Web ColdFusion Developer e: s...@sebduggan.com t: 07786 333184 w: http://sebduggan.com On 27 Dec 2008, at 13:38, Maya MacDonald wrote: Seb, Thank you for the reply. I am not quite sure I am following how I would include this as a flat file? Thanks, Devin Seb Duggan Web ColdFusion Developer e: s...@sebduggan.com t: 07786 333184 w: http://sebduggan.com ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317165 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
