RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2013-01-07 Thread Nelson Green
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 04:20:09 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nelson (et al), I've enjoyed reading this thread and apologize for dredging it up. It's interesting to see your progression of thought and the templating discussion is indeed a worthy one. However, I wanted to answer this objection

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2013-01-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:29:38PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:59:02, Ashley Sheridan wrote: ___ On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: snip snip Nelson (et al), I've enjoyed reading this thread and apologize for

RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2013-01-01 Thread Nelson Green
While using the *_once works in many cases, if you're doing a mass mailing kind of thing, you want to use the standard include/require so you can re-include it as your variables change: foreach ($customers as $customer) { $fullname = $customer['fullname']; $address = $customer['address'];

[PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Nelson Green
Hello, I have created a simple function that prints a personalized greeting by reading the greeting contents from a file. I pass the user's name to the function, and the function reads the file contents into a string variable. I am then using str_replace to replace the word USER in the string

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Stephen
Yes! Easy standard stuff. $title = 'Mr.; $user_name = 'John Doe'; $message = Hello $title $user_name Just define the value for the variables before defining the value for the message. Note that $message has to use double quotes for the expansion. Also consider using HEREDOC instead

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: Hello, I have created a simple function that prints a personalized greeting by reading the greeting contents from a file. I pass the user's name to the function, and the function reads the file contents into a string variable. I am

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Stuart Dallas
Please excuse the top post, but this may be helpful: http://stut.net/2008/10/28/snippet-simple-templates-with-php/ -Stuart -- Sent from my leaf blower On 31 Dec 2012, at 19:59, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: Hello,

RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Nelson Green
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:59:02, Ashley Sheridan wrote: ___ On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote:   My question is, is there another way to do something similar, such as embedding a variable name directly into the text file? In other words,

RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Nelson Green
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:47:20 Stephen D wrote: Yes! Easy standard stuff. $title = 'Mr.; $user_name = 'John Doe'; $message = Hello $title $user_name Just define the value for the variables before defining the value for the message. Note that $message has to use double quotes for

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:47:20 Stephen D wrote: Yes! Easy standard stuff. $title = 'Mr.; $user_name = 'John Doe'; $message = Hello $title $user_name Just define the value for the variables before

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Bastien
Bastien Koert On 2012-12-31, at 4:58 PM, tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:47:20 Stephen D wrote: Yes! Easy standard stuff. $title = 'Mr.; $user_name =

RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Nelson Green
On 2012-12-31, at 4:58 PM, tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote: I use the include(template) method for this alla time, it works great. Most especially for HTML emails coming from a web site to a group of users, just slick as anything. include does basically just what your

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Stephen
On 12-12-31 03:37 PM, Nelson Green wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:47:20 Stephen D wrote: Yes! Easy standard stuff. $title = 'Mr.; $user_name = 'John Doe'; $message = Hello $title $user_name Just define the value for the variables before defining the value for the message. Note that

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Stephen stephe...@rogers.com wrote: The common stuff for every page is defined in the file include.php. I define the variable $markup in that file. Here is the definition for $markup $markup=HEREDOC [[snippy]] HEREDOC; By using require_once instead of