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

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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

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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

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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:

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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

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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],

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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:

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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

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-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