Email Templates: Adding php includes
3 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder: Plugins & Add-ons
Last Post: March 18, 2016 (RSS)
By depdesign - March 14, 2016
Is there a way to add php includes to the email templates? I only see the Message HTML area via the cms. Is there a template file that I can modify to add a permanent include?
By ross - March 16, 2016
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.
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By depdesign - March 18, 2016
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!