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Time to time, we have to build customized personalization EDM on our application, as such as thankyou registration email, lost your password , ecard greeting card edm.

Current Approach
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//retrieve the html template file
$html = file_get_contents(’/home/racer_toolbox/edm/index.html’);
    
$html = $text =  str_replace(’{firstname}’,$firstname,$html);
  
send_email($email_to,$from,$from_name,$reply_to,$return_path,
$subject,$html,$text);

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Disadvantage : i have the list down all the placeholder variables to be replaced onto for my personalization EDM.
Next thought came to my mind, what if there 10-20 placeholders.  And you miss out 1-2.

My New Idea
I came out with a new idea on approaching the implementation of building a personalization EDM

My new idea in words
- Create the email content as part of the template file under views/ folder
- Pass in the data onto the template file which i have just created
- Process the data for display as if i do up the html page for the email
- Assign the content of the email page to a variable ( For example, $html)
- Render the content as html email and send out to the user

New Approach
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$data['id'] = 1;

//Retrieve user data where id = 1
$data['user_data'] = $this->reg_m->view($data);

//Assign user id 1’s data onto edm.php template and assign the output to $html variable
$html = $this->load->view(’edm.php’,$data,TRUE);
  
 send_email($email_to,$from,$from_name,$reply_to,$return_path,
$subject,$html,$text);

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