Best way to set up a "letter"

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November 3rd, 2006, 02:42 PM

lmayer

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Best way to set up a "letter"

Morning,

I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. I have a bunch of letters that an office sends out. I want to save the body of the letter in a table as well as another table for the personal information. The problem is some of the letters midway imbed the personal information. Is there a better or easier way to do this than what I am doing currently, which is a field for each section/paragraph and have the code something like this?

php Code:

Original - php Code
$mailbody = $First_Name . " " . $Last_Name ."<p>Dear " . $First_Name . ":<p>" . $Letter ."<br/ >" . date("h:i A",strtotime($Group_Interview_Time)) . "   " . $Group_Interview_Room . "   Group Process Interview<br/>" . date("h:i A",strtotime($Interview_Time)) . "   " . $Interview_Room . "   Individual Interview<p>" . $Footer;

 
$mailbody = 
$First_Name . " " . $Last_Name ."<p>Dear " . $First_Name . ":<p>" . $Letter ."<br/ >" 
.  date("h:i A",strtotime($Group_Interview_Time)) . "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" . $Group_Interview_Room . 
"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Group Process    Interview<br/>" .  date("h:i A",strtotime($Interview_Time)) . "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" . $Interview_Room  . "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Individual Interview<p>" . $Footer;

Thanks for any thoughts.

Laura

November 4th, 2006, 01:54 AM

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RE: Best way to set up a "letter"

Well, if you want to save the body of a letter in a table and then be able to replace data within the body, I'd template the letter somehow. For instance, I might save the following in the table:

Code:

Dear <<first_name>>,
Thanks for visiting with us on <<vist_date>.
I hope to see you again!
Sincerely,
<<managers_name>>

Then, I'd have PHP code that pulled the personal info from the other table and did substr_replace()'s on the template tags I made up.

Is that the sort of thing you are looking for?

November 6th, 2006, 12:34 PM

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RE: Best way to set up a "letter"

Thanks Matt,

Yes thats what I'm looking for...some way to make the template in a table. I'll check that out. Thanks for the tip.

Laura

November 6th, 2006, 01:30 PM

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RE: Best way to set up a "letter"

I tried your suggestion Matt it worked like a charm.

Thanks Again.

Laura

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