Email generated html with dynamic values using php
Question
I have a format simple certificate. The certificate needs to be populated with values from the database and emailed. Below is the quick fix I did. The problem is the certificates sent are not of one person instead of those queried.
$query ="SELECT r.email, r.LastName, r.OpNo,
r.QuizNo From tbl_cert where Pass =1 AND Printed is null;
$result=mysql_query($query);
while( ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) ){
$subject = "CPD Certificate";
$email = $row['email'];
$LastName = $row['LastName'];
$OpNo = $row['OpNo'];
$TestNo = $row['QuizNo'];
$headers = "From: online@example.com";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$mail_body ='<html>...Here its were my my
html comes with values from table...</html>';
if (mail($to, $subject, $mail_body, $headers)){
$query = "UPDATE `tbl_cert` SET Printed = 1
WHERE CertificateNo = " . $CertificateNo;
$certresult=mysql_query($query);
if ($certresult) {
header('Location:tsCertlist.php');
}
The problem is how to get the $mail_body to have both html and php within the while loop. My generated form or certificate was the same for the 4 users who had Passed and had not printed their certificate.
2 answers
solution1
2 ACCPTED 2013-01-24 13:47:42
create a separate template file which contains your HTML and the places you want to insert a variable / replace something put in something like %REPLACE_FIRSTNAME%
Then use str_replace() to change your replacement vars with the db/input/whatever variables with the data you require.
$mail_body = file_get_contents("templates/emailtemplate.htm");
$mail_body = str_replace("%REPLACE_FIRSTNAME%",value_from_DB,$template);
Sorted and if you ever want to change your layout just edit the template file accordingly.
solution2
0 2013-01-24 13:55:33
$certNo = 0;
//get $certNo from data base
$mail_body ='<html>'.$certNo.'</html>';
//send
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