Comments on: Email Templates with CodeIgniter

By: Santana Sweeton

Santana Sweeton — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:35:30 +0000

proffesional service is a must

By: Erica Zorens

Erica Zorens — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:17:23 +0000

Hello, your stuff is really cool. I mostly agree with you and would like to see more emotions here.Thanks and see you soon on your blog.:)

By: The Master - Not Known Yet

The Master - Not Known Yet — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:20:51 +0000

Thank you for your help.

Saved me 2 hours of figuring out what’s happening or how I can make it work

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:24:49 +0000

Not sure why the code for loading the library was not published in my previous comment, but I wrote:

$this->load->library(‘parser’);

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:23:54 +0000

Great explanation. Thanks.

Probably is also good to say that Parser is a CodeIgniter Library, and of course you need to load it before using.

You can easily load it using:

$this->load->library('parser');

By: Monica Olinescu

Monica Olinescu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:09:00 +0000

This is great stuff! So ingenious to use the Codeigniter parser… Thanks for posting this.

By: Nathan Pitman

Nathan Pitman — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:19:07 +0000

Brilliant tip. Thanks for drawing my attention to this feature!

By: Nathan Hammond

Nathan Hammond — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:17:35 +0000

This is the method we use to pull in data from a file that we are using to template a page. It doesn’t add the overhead of templating and allows us to create slightly more general templates—there really is nothing that comes close to having your basic control structures in a template in my opinion. In your use, we can even create a very basic html email “template” that subsequently uses this same method to include the content of the particular emails using a switch statement.
Have you yet checked into Kohana? It is a project forked off CodeIgniter that adopted a community development model to fix some of the known issues with CodeIgniter that simply aren’t being dealt with. We used Kohana for the project we’re working on in the studio right now. It is very close ot what we want in a framework, but now having built an entire site in it, there are some glaring weaknesses we found. Our biggest complaints were with its (lack of) extensibility to create a system of dropping in modules, and leaving much to be desired with form handling and validation.
And, having not seen something else that we like as much, we’re now building our own.