RE: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file

> While using the *_once works in many cases, if you're doing a mass > mailing kind of thing, you want to use the standard include/require so > you can re-include it as your variables change: > > foreach ($customers as $customer) { > $fullname = $customer['fullname']; > $address = $customer['address']; > // and so on > include("mailing.php"); > process($mailing,$customer); > } > > where mailing.php defines the $mailing variable as the content that > got included and substituted. > > (Back before I came up with this, I was starting off in the same place > as the OP -- and then I just realized "wait --- PHP *IS* a templating > system!" a voila) For what I am trying to do here, I think what I'm doing will suffice. Like you did, I am going through the learning process. What I've read about templating has whetted my appetite for bigger and better things, but I should probably finish this first. Right now I'm just trying to personalize a rather dry page just a bit. Thanks!