PHP

Get a Mail-Merge Replacement String by Pattern

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReplaceString2 method, which returns the replacement string for a previously-defined pattern/replacement pair, looked up by the pattern itself (a mail-merge feature). This example defines two pairs and looks up the replacement for one pattern by name.

Background: Where GetReplaceString fetches a replacement by its numeric position, GetReplaceString2 fetches it by the pattern — convenient when you already know the token (say FIRST_NAME) and just want its configured substitution without scanning the whole list.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the GetReplaceString2 method, which returns the replacement string for a
// previously-defined pattern/replacement pair, looked up by the pattern itself (a
// mail-merge feature).

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Hello FIRST_NAME';
$email->Body = 'Dear FIRST_NAME, welcome to CITY.';

$email->SetReplacePattern('FIRST_NAME', 'John');
$email->SetReplacePattern('CITY', 'Denver');

// Look up the replacement for a specific pattern.
$repl = $email->GetReplaceString2('FIRST_NAME');
echo 'FIRST_NAME -> ', $repl, "\n";