phpMailer passing variables to an HTML template

[severndigital]

I've looked high and low through the phpMailer documentation and google.

 

can anyone explain how to pass variables through to the email template?

 

Thanks,

-C

[severndigital]

Man this was a PTA.

 

Just posting this for others if they have the question.

 

so ... if you don't want to install,confiure,implement, and learn SMARTY

 

you will have to code your html doc as follows.

 

blah blah blah .... text before a variable
[yourVariable]
blah blah blah .... text before after variable

 

then form within the call to the phpMailer class

 

after you include the template using

 

$body             = $mail->getFile('contents.html');

 

you need to do a str_replace() and add your variable that way like this.

 

$body             = $mail->getFile('contents.html');

$yourVariable = 'some variable info here';
//now replace the occurance of the variable in the html file.

$body = str_replace('[yourVariable]',$yourVariable,$body);

 

 

i don't like it, but that seems to be the only solution i can find.

 

-C