Parsing file

[vccarvalho]

Hi there! I'd like to send some pre-formated emails to my users. So I thought doing something like this.
I'd have several e-mail files, like this:

email_file1:

Dear $user,
Your atempt to include your article "$article" into ....

email_file2:

Dear $user
we received your request, and we intend to fullfil it ...

Ok, in my page code I'd have someplace where I could set these vars like

$user = $users->getName();
$article = $users->getArticleName();

What I'd like to do is, read the e-mail files, replace the variables ($user for eg) for their respective values, and then pass it as the body for the e-mail function.

Any ideas of how to make this???

Thanks

[leatherback]

Yes!

<Oh oh, is he funny or what? >

Anyway: What you do:

You get the variables you need for the email. Say now: $Email, $Name, $Subject

Then set the $MessageBody to whatever content you have decided:

if ($messagetype == 'email_file2')
{
$MessageBody .= "Dear $Name, we received your request, and we intend to fullfil it ... ";
}

Use mail to send it:

mail($Email, $Subject, $MessageBody);

That's it! (Except for a potential typo)

Of course you can add reply-adresses and stuff, but check the PhP mail functio for that:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.mail.php

J.