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 object

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['addre

RE: [PHP] SOLVED: variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Nelson Green
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 1On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:47:00 Stephen D wrote: > By using require_once instead of fopen and fread, I have simpler code > and PHP evaluates the embedded variables in $markup without any need to > use string functions. > > In your case, I would make the file greeter.php > >

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 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 print_greeting functi

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 do

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

[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 wit