Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Stephen wrote: > The common stuff for every page is defined in the file "include.php". I > define the variable $markup in that file. > > Here is the definition for $markup > > $markup=<< HEREDOC; > > By using require_once instead of fopen and fread, I have simpler

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 Stephen
On 12-12-31 03:37 PM, Nelson Green wrote: 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 $

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Discount System

2012-12-31 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:51 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Karl DeSaulniers > wrote: Hello Everyone, Hope all are well. Quick and hopefully painless question. Is there any examples on how to build a discount system into your shopping cart out there that anyone kn

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Discount System

2012-12-31 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:36 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Hello Everyone, Hope all are well. Quick and hopefully painless question. Is there any examples on how to build a discount system into your shopping cart out there that anyone knows of? I am using MySQL and PHP. I

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 Bastien
Bastien Koert On 2012-12-31, at 4:58 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nelson Green > wrote: >> >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:47:20 Stephen D wrote: >>> >>> Yes! >>> >>> Easy standard stuff. >>> >>> $title = 'Mr."; >>> $user_name = 'John Doe'; >>> >>> $mes

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > > 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 defini

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 other words, >

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Stuart Dallas
Please excuse the top post, but this may be helpful: http://stut.net/2008/10/28/snippet-simple-templates-with-php/ -Stuart -- Sent from my leaf blower On 31 Dec 2012, at 19:59, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have created

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: > 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

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2012-12-31 Thread Stephen
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 double quotes for the expansion. Also consider using HEREDOC instead

[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

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Discount System

2012-12-31 Thread Ashley Sheridan
Karl DeSaulniers wrote: >Hello Everyone, >Hope all are well. Quick and hopefully painless question. >Is there any examples on how to build a discount system >into your shopping cart out there that anyone knows of? >I am using MySQL and PHP. I have built one of my own so far, >but am having trou