supplying a variable with fopen, fread...

[glennn.php]

ok.

 

i'm sending a thanks email in html via this method (and i don't have to do it this way):

$template = 'welcome.php';
$fd = fopen($template,"r");
$message = fread($fd, filesize($template));

mail($to,$message, etc...)

 

this is so my client can edit the html.

 

BUT.

 

what i really need to do is stick a value (registrant's name) in the variable that will be in the welcome.php that will be sent, "Hello, $newuser...".

 

have i made that difficult/impossible using fread() since the welcome.php is really not being opened?

 

can someone help me with this?

 

thanks much

 

oh - i tried $template = 'welcome.php?name=name'; but that didn't work...

 

[jl5501]

You best way is to use a placeholder in the template file which can be a .txt file or any other file

 

so say your placeholder is {NEWUSER}

 

You then do this

 

$message = file_get_contents('template.php');

$message = str_replace('{NEWUSER}',$newuser,$message);

 

mail(....);

 

 

 

[MadTechie]

instead of using fopen and filesize, use file_get_content, as for using a variable inside.. may i suggest a little different approach,

Just say welcome.php or welcome.html was a template and you had

Dear %User%

you could then use str_replace, for example

$template = file_get_contents('welcome.html');
$data = str_replace("%User%", $User, $template);
$data = str_replace("%FullName%", "$FirstName $LastName", $data);

mail($to,$data , etc...)

 

Hope that helps

 

EDIT: lol I'm a little slow today!

[glennn.php]

yes, BOTH of those are awesome. thanks much guys