chronister Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Hello, I am creating a mass mail system for my company. I want to have templates available for different types of mail. I am wondering how to set it up so that what the sender types in the textarea gets placed in the template file properly. I did this as a test $testvar = 'Inserted Test Var'; $template = file_get_contents(TEMPLATE_DIR.'template1.php'); // I have $testvar inside this template file echo $template; I get nothing or I get $testvar depending if I have the php tags below Here is template1.php <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <?=$testvar ?> <!-- This gives me nothing--> $testvar <!-- this gives me $testvar --> </body> </html> How can I make it so I can take the $_POST data from a form, and set the template code into a var having it replace a var inside the template file with the data from the form I hope that makes sense to ya's. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Try it with a Global variable instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronister Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Did not work. I tried a global var and session vars. The variable is not being replaced properly. I did something like this before, but I cannot remember what how the hell I did it. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Short tags are turned on? Also, of course $testvar would give you $testvar in HTML. HTML can't parse a php variable outside of php. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronister Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Solved it... I found the script I used before to do this type of thing <?php $testvar = 'Inserted Test Var'; include(TEMPLATE_DIR.'shipping_pizza.php'); echo $body; ?> Here is where it all happens at. <?php ob_start() ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <?=$testvar ?> <!-- Gotta have it in PHP tags. ?> </body> </html> <?php $body = ob_get_contents(); /* this is where it happens... this takes the contents of ob_start and puts it inside a var. */ ob_end_clean(); /* clears the buffer without displaying it */ ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Probably should still use <?php instead of <?, just in case you move to a server where short tags are disabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronister Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 I don't use short tags.... e.g <? vs <?php I used the shorthand echo statement <?=$var ?> I do believe there is a difference between the 2. One is laziness and the other is a build in shorthand statement. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 <?= is a <? shortag. Disable short tags and watch it stop working. I don't use short tags.... e.g <? vs <?php I used the shorthand echo statement <?=$var ?> I do believe there is a difference between the 2. One is laziness and the other is a build in shorthand statement. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronister Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 Ahhhhhh... a little research and I find your correct.. I did not realize that <?= fell into the same category as <? I thought the = sign made it different for some reason. Makes sense though. Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Yeah, = is just short for echo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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