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**Isabella_Smith** · 07:51 AM

Hi Forum,

I am generating a customized email and I want to send the user name printing in the body body of message in html...I am sending message via php mail() function.

for example:

HTML Code:

<html>
<body>
<span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#212121; line-height:14px;">

Dear <<what variable should I use here>>,</span>

<b>Welcome to our website.</b>
</body>
</html>

Text box name of user is: ename,

This is how I am generating email.

PHP Code:


			
$user = $_POST['ename'];
        //$custname = $_POST['ename'];       
        //$category = $_REQUEST['category'];
        $fromname = "abcd - Team";
        $details = $_POST['char_input'];
        $additional_parameters = "-f noreply@abcd.com";
        $toname = $custname;
        $toemail = $_POST['emailaddress'];
        //$bcc = "me@abcd.com";
        //$bcc = "";
        $subject = "$_POST['subject']";
        $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" . "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n" . "From: Our - Team <noreply@abcd.com>" . "\r\n" . "Reply-To: noreply@abcd.com\r\n";
       
        $message = $details;
       
    mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers, $additional_parameters);

**SnapCount80** · 05-11-2010, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Isabella_Smith

Hi Forum,

I am generating a customized email and I want to send the user name printing in the body body of message in html...I am sending message via php mail() function.

In this case, $message is the variable that displays the content of the email body. I'm not sure what 'char_input' is sending but you can just add the name into the $message variable. It could look something like this.

PHP Code:


			
$custname = $_POST['ename'];

$message = "<html>
 <body>
 <span style='font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#212121;  line-height:14px;'>
Dear " . $custname . ",</span>
<b>Welcome to our website.</b>" . 
$details . 
"</body>
</html>";

**nayes84** · 05-11-2010, 06:18 PM

You can use a template system to do the job for you. ie. smarty templates

HTML Code:

<html>
<body>
<span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#212121; line-height:14px;">

Dear {$custname},</span>

<b>Welcome to our website.</b>
</body>
</html>

PHP Code:


			
$smarty->assign('custname', $_POST['ename']);

check smarty documentation for more information
http://www.smarty.net/

**Isabella_Smith** · 05-13-2010, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnapCount80

In this case, $message is the variable that displays the content of the email body. I'm not sure what 'char_input' is sending but you can just add the name into the $message variable. It could look something like this.

PHP Code:


			
$custname = $_POST['ename'];

$message = "<html>
 <body>
 <span style='font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#212121;  line-height:14px;'>
Dear " . $custname . ",</span>
<b>Welcome to our website.</b>" . 
$details . 
"</body>
</html>";

Thanks for your reply.... I know this is the solution but I want to send different message to different customer with different templates.....and all I want to save myself from the hassle of pasting name into body again and again......

Any other suggestion would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

**Isabella_Smith** · 05-13-2010, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nayes84

You can use a template system to do the job for you. ie. smarty templates

HTML Code:

<html>
<body>
<span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#212121; line-height:14px;">

Dear {$custname},</span>

<b>Welcome to our website.</b>
</body>
</html>

PHP Code:


			
$smarty->assign('custname', $_POST['ename']);

check smarty documentation for more information
http://www.smarty.net/

I don't understand wt u r saying....I am new to php....would u please elaborate a little bit.

Thanks.

**nayes84** · 09:09 PM

Sorry for taking a while to reply.

well with smarty templates you can load template file which include some special variables like {$custnam} which refer to name and so on.

these special variables you should define your self in the php side to be able to use in the template

you can define (assign) that variable using the line I mentioned before

PHP Code:


			
$smarty->assign('custname', $_POST['ename']);

Of course it can be any name you like like customer_name or whatever

after that you can use it in the template like what is mentioned above
say message1.html

HTML Code:

<html>
<body>
<span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#212121; line-height:14px;">

Dear {$custname},</span>

<b>Welcome to our website.</b>
</body>

after that you can

at last you need to get the parsed version of the data using $smarty->fetch

PHP Code:


			
$body=$smarty->fetch('message1.html');

you will get in $body variable toe parsed version of the message where {$custname} is replaced with you value in $_POST['ename']

you can always use different messages by fetching different files message1.html, message2.html, and so on
of course you need to create them all before using them

hope I could clarify it.

**Arings** · 05-17-2010, 03:51 AM

i think the suggestion provided above is quite enough.
just try to store the message and user name in different variable.

$name= $_POST['ename'];
$message= "your message or fetch this from your database";
// now for the html

$details_msg ="<html>
<body>Hello ".echo ($name);." welcome to your site name
</body></html>";
//so when you print $details_msg you will get the result.