Email Templates: Adding php includes

Hi 

Thanks for posting.

You won't be able to put php includes into an email template.  That isn't the way either work.

What you can do instead is put the HTML from your include right into the HTML template.

Let me know if you'd like more detail.

In case anyone else wants to do something similar I was able to find a solution. 

I needed to add a php header and footer using the Email Templates and was able to do with two custom placeholders.

I first added a header and footer  to the placeholder array:

 $emailHeaders = emailTemplate_loadFromDB(array(
          'template_id'  => 'USER-PASSWORD-RESET',
          'placeholders' => array(
          'header'  =>  file_get_contents('header.php',TRUE),
          'footer'  =>  file_get_contents('footer.php',TRUE),
          'user.username' => $user['username'],
            'user.email'    => $user['email'],
            'loginUrl'      => realUrl($GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_LOGIN_FORM_URL']),
            'resetUrl'      => realUrl($GLOBALS['WEBSITE_LOGIN_RESET_URL'] . "?userNum={$user['num']}&resetCode=" . _generatePasswordResetCode( $user['num'] )),
        )));

Then in the email template I added #header# in the top of the Message HTML code and added #footer# at the bottom.

This setup was extremely helpful as I wanted to run db generated content in the email without having to copy and paste html code everytime I send an email.  It also helps clean your coding as having a header and footer include doesnt require that code in the Message HTML area.

Hope this helps!