| re: HTML Email Question
Tony,
You could store the HTML file on the server as say "emailtemplate.html"
and put some unique code where you want to replace sections with the form
variables, eg:
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<html>
<body>
<strong>First Name: </strong> {!FIRSTNAME!}<br />
<strong>Surname: </strong> {!SURNAME!}<br />
<strong>Comments: </strong> {!COMMENTS!}<br />
</body>
</html>
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Then:
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// need to add using System.IO;
// open the file
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("emailtemplate.html");
string template = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
// replace the template fields
template.Replace("{!FIRSTNAME!}", _firstName);
template.Replace("{!SURNAME!}", _surname);
template.Replace("{!COMMENTS!}", _comments);
// set mail.body to template.
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On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:59:23 +0800, akylitis <tonyk@reactornet.com> wrote:
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> Hello:
>
> Anyone have an opinion on the best way to formulate a dynamic HTML
> email? Thus far I have figured out that the only way to "build" the
> HTML prior to the email (I'm using System.Net.Mail) is to manually
> build the HTML string in code or "screen scrape" a stream from a
> WebRequest.
>
> I've tried both ways and I'm torn. I hate building HTML through
> strings; I'd rather create and manage an HTML file. However, the final
> HTML needs to be dynamic enough to display data collected from a
> "Contact Us" form. At the point of the email, the data is already
> posted to the DB but I'm not sure if I want to hit the DB again if the
> data is already part of the business object I already have created.
>
> I think what I'm really looking for is a way to use an html template
> somehow and "place" the data in the template, set the value to the
> mail.body and be done. Any thoughts?
>
> Tony
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