interpolating variables

magic_hat60622

hi all. I have an html file that I need php to read and send as an html
e-mail. The file contains standard html and also some variable names
that I want php to interpolate:
<html>
Hi there. my name is $name
</html>

I'm reading the file like so:
$fh=fopen('./emails/confirmation/index.html', 'r') or die
($php_errormsg) ;
while (! feof($fh)){
$body.=fread($fh,filesize('./emails/confirmation/index.html'));
}

PHP is not interpolating the variable names in the email. Solutions?

-Magic

Aug 4 '06 #1

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slimdizzy

magic_hat60622 wrote:

hi all. I have an html file that I need php to read and send as an html
e-mail. The file contains standard html and also some variable names
that I want php to interpolate:
<html>
Hi there. my name is $name
</html>

I'm reading the file like so:
$fh=fopen('./emails/confirmation/index.html', 'r') or die
($php_errormsg) ;
while (! feof($fh)){
$body.=fread($fh,filesize('./emails/confirmation/index.html'));
}

PHP is not interpolating the variable names in the email. Solutions?

-Magic

Why not just put the html of the message you want to send into a
variable in that script??
Are there reason why your reading a file for such a small amout of
text/html??

Just seems to be more work then needed unless you have users making
these files and want them to be in a static place for your script to
read from.

Aug 4 '06 #2

Alvaro G. Vicario

*** magic_hat60622 escribió/wrote (4 Aug 2006 09:31:59 -0700):

$fh=fopen('./emails/confirmation/index.html', 'r') or die
($php_errormsg) ;
while (! feof($fh)){
$body.=fread($fh,filesize('./emails/confirmation/index.html'));
}

PHP is not interpolating the variable names in the email. Solutions?

Thanks God, PHP does not treat all files it reads as PHP code! Just use
str_replace() on $body to replace the values you want. I suggest, though,
that you chose another markup that's not so prone to undesired
replacements. Some ideas:

{$foo}
%FOO%
[%foo%]

....

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Aug 4 '06 #3

dawnerd

Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:

*** magic_hat60622 escribió/wrote (4 Aug 2006 09:31:59 -0700):
$fh=fopen('./emails/confirmation/index.html', 'r') or die
($php_errormsg) ;
while (! feof($fh)){
$body.=fread($fh,filesize('./emails/confirmation/index.html'));
}

PHP is not interpolating the variable names in the email. Solutions?

Thanks God, PHP does not treat all files it reads as PHP code! Just use
str_replace() on $body to replace the values you want. I suggest, though,
that you chose another markup that's not so prone to undesired
replacements. Some ideas:

{$foo}
%FOO%
[%foo%]

...

--
-+ http://alvaro.es - Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
++ Mi sitio sobre programación web: http://bits.demogracia.com
+- Mi web de humor con rayos UVA: http://www.demogracia.com
--

Why not just use .php instead of .html?

Aug 4 '06 #4

Jerry Stuckle

dawnerd wrote:

Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:

>>*** magic_hat60622 escribió/wrote (4 Aug 2006 09:31:59 -0700):

>>>$fh=fopen('./emails/confirmation/index.html', 'r') or die
($php_errormsg) ;
while (! feof($fh)){
$body.=fread($fh,filesize('./emails/confirmation/index.html'));
}

PHP is not interpolating the variable names in the email. Solutions?

Thanks God, PHP does not treat all files it reads as PHP code! Just use
str_replace() on $body to replace the values you want. I suggest, though,
that you chose another markup that's not so prone to undesired
replacements. Some ideas:

{$foo}
%FOO%
[%foo%]

...

--
-+ http://alvaro.es - Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
++ Mi sitio sobre programación web: http://bits.demogracia.com
+- Mi web de humor con rayos UVA: http://www.demogracia.com
--

Why not just use .php instead of .html?

Because PHP will still not parse a file read with fread(), no matter
what the extension.
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Aug 5 '06 #5

Tim Hunt

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

dawnerd wrote:
Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:

>*** magic_hat60622 escribió/wrote (4 Aug 2006 09:31:59 -0700):

$fh=fopen('./emails/confirmation/index.html', 'r') or die
($php_errormsg) ;
while (! feof($fh)){
$body.=fread($fh,filesize('./emails/confirmation/index.html'));
}

PHP is not interpolating the variable names in the email. Solutions?

Thanks God, PHP does not treat all files it reads as PHP code! Just use
str_replace() on $body to replace the values you want. I suggest, though,
that you chose another markup that's not so prone to undesired
replacements. Some ideas:

{$foo}
%FOO%
[%foo%]

...

--
-+ http://alvaro.es - Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
++ Mi sitio sobre programación web: http://bits.demogracia.com
+- Mi web de humor con rayos UVA: http://www.demogracia.com
--

Why not just use .php instead of .html?

Because PHP will still not parse a file read with fread(), no matter
what the extension.

Could turn on output buffering, include a php file + call
output_get_clean or use str_replace like Alvaro said

Thats if a template is necessary though, slimdizzy had a point

Aug 5 '06 #6

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