RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2013-01-07 Thread Nelson Green
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 04:20:09 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Nelson (et al), > > I've enjoyed reading this thread and apologize for dredging it up. > It's interesting to see your progression of thought and the templating > discussion is indeed a worthy one. > > However, I wanted to answer this object

Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2013-01-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:29:38PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:59:02, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > ___ > > > > On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: > Nelson (et al), I've enjoyed reading this thread and apologize for dredg

RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

2013-01-01 Thread Nelson Green
> While using the *_once works in many cases, if you're doing a mass > mailing kind of thing, you want to use the standard include/require so > you can re-include it as your variables change: > > foreach ($customers as $customer) { > $fullname = $customer['fullname']; > $address = $customer['addre

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] 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] 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