PHP variable in a database

[Pain]

Hello. 

 

I am building a website where I need to send welcome emails.

 

Welcome email text is stored in the database, so i first have to retrieve it, then send.

 

Now I came across this issue - how do I make my code treat the text from the database AS a variable(s).

 
    public function retrieveConfirmationEmail() {
 
     $this->email_tag = 'Room Confirmation';
 
     $query = $this->db->prepare('SELECT * FROM emails WHERE email_tag = ?');
     $query->bindValue(1, $this->email_tag);
     $query->execute();
 
     $data = $query->fetch();
 
     $message = $data['message'];
     $subject = $data['subject'];
 
     $this->message  = $message;
     $this->subject  = $subject;
 
    }
 
 
 
public function sendConfirmationEmail() {
 
$headers  = "From: admin@homelocator.com" . "\r\n";
   $headers .= "Reply-To: admin@homelocator.com". "\r\n";
        $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
        $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
 
        mail($this->email, $this->subject, $this->message, $headers);
 
}

The first method retrieves 'Message'. That message has to contain PHP variables such as $this->name, $this->title etc.

 

 

 

Any advice?

 

thx

[ginerjm]

IMHO - I would design my db differently.  You're not going to put "variable" data into your "static" message, are you?  You s/b creating a table of users with their info separate from the messages that you wish to send.  Then, you pick a message and the users and do your mail generation. 

 

Unless you are sending totally unique messages to each person every time you send out mail, which I don't see working in a db-driven environment.

[Pain]

I'm sorry I should've been more clear on this. Each email has to be different. Please take a look at the full version of my class.

<?php
 
 
class Advert {
  
private $db;
 
    public $title;
    public $description;
    public $postcode;
    public $picture;
    public $email;
    public $date_posted;
    public $cost;
 
    public $message;
    public $subject;
    public $email_tag;
 
    public $link;
    public $id;
 
 
 
public function __construct($database) {
   $this->db = $database;
} 
 
 
 
    public function setDetails($title, $description, $postcode, $picture, $email, $date_posted, $cost) {
 
     $this->title       = $title;
$this->description = $description; 
$this->postcode    = $postcode;
$this->picture     = $picture;
$this->email       = $email;
$this->date_posted = $date_posted;
$this->cost        = $cost;
 
    }
 
 
 
public function insertAdvert() {
 
$query = $this->db->prepare("INSERT INTO rooms (title, description, postcode, picture, email, date_posted, cost) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)");
 
$query->bindValue(1, $this->title);
$query->bindValue(2, $this->description);
$query->bindValue(3, $this->postcode);
$query->bindValue(4, $this->picture);
$query->bindValue(5, $this->email);
$query->bindValue(6, $this->date_posted);
$query->bindValue(7, $this->cost);
 
$query->execute();
 
}
 
 
 
public function setAdvertLink() {
 
$query = $this->db->prepare('SELECT id FROM rooms WHERE title = ? AND description = ? AND postcode = ? AND date_posted = ? AND email = ?');
 
$query->bindValue(1, $this->title);
$query->bindValue(2, $this->description);
$query->bindValue(3, $this->postcode);
$query->bindValue(4, $this->date_posted);
$query->bindValue(5, $this->email);
 
$query->execute();
 
$data = $query->fetch();
$id   = $data['id'];
        
        $this->link = 'http://www.home-decorators.co.uk/rooms/uk/london/'.$id;
        $_SESSION['last_id'] = $id;
 
}
 
 
 
    public function retrieveConfirmationEmail() {
 
     $this->email_tag = 'Room Confirmation';
 
     $query = $this->db->prepare('SELECT * FROM emails WHERE email_tag = ?');
     $query->bindValue(1, $this->email_tag);
     $query->execute();
 
     $data = $query->fetch();
 
     $message = $data['message'];
     $subject = $data['subject'];
 
     $this->message  = $message;
     $this->subject  = $subject;
 
    }
 
 
 
public function sendConfirmationEmail() {
 
$headers  = "From: admin@homelocator.com" . "\r\n";
   $headers .= "Reply-To: admin@homelocator.com". "\r\n";
        $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
        $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
 
        mail($this->email, $this->subject, $this->message, $headers);
 
}
 
 
 
public function redirect() {
 
header('location: success.php');
 
}
 
 
 
}
 
 
 
?>

As you can see I'm getting those variables from $_POST. 

 

 

Obviously I could just write a welcome email like this:

$this->message = 'Hello ' . $this->name . ' your email is ' .$this->email;

But i want to hold this in the db. Hope that's a bit more clear. Sorry I'm really bad at explaining

[.josh]

put placeholders in your email message and then use str_replace to replace the placeholders with the values from the variables.

 

example:

$content = "Hello {{NAME}}, your email address is: {{EMAIL}}";
$name = 'your name';
$email = 'yname@gmail.com';

$replace = array(
  '{{NAME}}' => $name,
  '{{EMAIL}}' => $email
  // etc..
);
  
$content = str_replace(array_keys($replace),$replace,$content);

[Pain]

  On 2/9/2014 at 9:22 PM, .josh said:

put placeholders in your email message and then use str_replace to replace the placeholders with the values from the variables.

 

example:

$content = "Hello {{NAME}}, your email address is: {{EMAIL}}";
$name = 'your name';
$email = 'yname@gmail.com';

$replace = array(
  '{{NAME}}' => $name,
  '{{EMAIL}}' => $email
  // etc..
);
  
$content = str_replace(array_keys($replace),$replace,$content);