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bluejester Smarty Regular
Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 55
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:07 am Post subject: SmartyMailer : Use Smarty and CSS stylesheets for e-mails |
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Hello Smarty team & Smarty fellows,
For long I wanted to use Smarty for sending beautiful HTML e-mails, using template inheritance and so. With Smarty's Fetch() method, this is quite easy to setup.
However, designing HTML e-mails require you to forget any CSS stylesheets, and use something like <div style=""> instead : that can be very complicated if you want to manage several e-mail templates with the same design : if one day you want to change your design, you'll have to check every style attribute of every HTML element of every template.
Recently I found an amazing PHP class named "CSS to Inline Styles" by Tijs Verkoyen, that you can find here :
https://github.com/impishj/Css-To-Inline-Styles
With that class, you can merge a HTML file with a CSS file and it will automatically output HTML with the corresponding style="" attributes everywhere after parsing your CSS rules.
For my needs, I wanted to use both Smarty and CSS to Inline styles, for designing my different e-mails with template inheritance, creating different stylesheets, and sending the processed result.
So, I wanted to share with you a class I made and I called SmartyMailer.
http://code.google.com/p/smartymailer/
Now you have :
- Templates that inherit
- CSS that inherit
- Compiled HTML output
Usage as follows :
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$SmartyMailer = new SmartyMailer();
$SmartyMailer -> SetTemplateDir('MyTemplateDir') // Smarty template directory
$SmartyMailer -> SetCssDir('MyCssDir') // Css directory
$SmartyMailer -> SetTemplateFile('MyTemplate.tpl') // Smarty template
$SmartyMailer -> AddCssFile('Default.css') // Css styles
$SmartyMailer -> AddCssFile('MyStyles.css') // Additionnal Css styles
$SmartyMailer -> Assign('FirstName', 'Ben') // Smarty variable assignments
$SmartyMailer -> Process() -> ShowOutput() // Processes and displays the result
$SmartyMailer -> SetSender('from@example.com') // Set email's sender
$SmartyMailer -> SetRecipient('to@example.com') // Set email's recipient
$SmartyMailer -> SetSubject('Hello {$FirstName}') // Set email's subject (can be a Smarty string)
$SmartyMailer -> Process() -> Send() // Processes and Sends the e-mail
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Since SmartyMailer extends Smarty, you can use any Smarty method (SetCaching, SetCacheLifeTime, IsCached, LoadFilter, ...)
@Smarty team : I tried to do my best for good practices in coding with Smarty. Feel free to tell me what can I improve.
Enjoy,
Ben |
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