Question

I have a table named Template which I set my messages to send them via mail, I need php variables to input into.

My question is: can I use Smarty to edit my messages (they are in HTML code) after retrieving them from the table?

For example, I have:

$message = getMsgFromTable(Template);

$message has the type Text which contains php variables. Can I use Smarty to fill this variable like this?

$message = setVariableValueBySmarty($message);

Answer 1

Smarty can fetch the template and return its output instead of displaying it.
The fetch() method does this, and that’s what you need:

http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/api.fetch.tpl

There’s also a paragraph in documentation that tell you how to use it to send mails 🙂

http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/api.fetch.tpl#id627712

If you need to create template from the database (stored as string), take a look at this:

http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/resources.string.tpl