A simple question that's holding me up, so I gave it 250! I'm using CDO to send an e-mail where the message body is built based on form responses... problem is inside the declaration of the message body, I need to write extensive CF logic to build the message body. This code contains quotes, so it is bombing. A short example...
<cfset objNewMail.Body = "Date of registration: #dateformat(now(),"mm/dd/y
<cfif #lcase(FORM.CDIpreconf)# is "yes">
Career Development Institute #CHR(13)#</cfif>
">
While this example is very short, the real deal is about 50 lines of this. Is there a way to tell ColdFusion to parse through a block of code, put the result out to a variable, and then I could just use the variable? I'm putting pretty much the same information to the page for the user to view as a confirmation and that of course works without issue.
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The code example you gave us will not work no matter how you escape the quotes you can not, as far as I know, embed <cfif> inside the cfset tag. you will need to use iif() instead.
Check out this link for a good explanationon iif:
http://www.fusionauthority
or do something like:
<cfset objNewMail.Body = "Date of registration: #dateformat(now(),"mm/dd/y
<cfif #lcase(FORM.CDIpreconf)# is "yes">
<cfset objNewMail.Body="#objNewMa
</cfif>
Hmmm. Must be something specific to this situation. For I'd tried using single quotes within, but it still didn't work. Tried doubling double quotes within double quotes--didn't work.
I thought perhaps it was because it was breaking over one line so I condensed it all down to one line. That didn't work either.
Is there a way to just build this body and throw it into a variable and then just use that in the object setup?
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Hi,
<cfsavecontent> will save everything between start and end tag in a variable:
<cfsavecontent variable="myVar">
< --- output anything here --->
</cfsavecontent>
That tag is new in CF MX; for earlier versions you need a custom tag; there should be some in the tag gallery, if you can't find one, let me know, I'll send you something that works...
HTH,
Chris
bingo procept
use
<cfsavecontent variable="myVar">
<cfif>...</cfif>
<cfloop> anything...
</cfsavecontent>
and then in ur mail just use the myVar
<cfmail from="some address" to="address" subject="Your SUbject" type="HTML">
#myVar#
</cfmail>
Thats it
or if u r not using latest version of cf then
<cfset somevar = 'your data'>
just replace the what ever single quotes are there in the data with double quotes or u can do the same thing vice versa
Regards
Hart
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by: CFDevHeadPosted on 2003-10-27 at 07:32:17ID: 9627500
You can do a couple things; if you want to use double quotes inside double quotes do this:
<cfset objNewMail.Body = "Date of registration: #dateformat(now(),"mm/dd/y
<cfif #lcase(FORM.CDIpreconf)# is ""yes"">
Career Development Institute #CHR(13)#</cfif>
">
Or you can single quotes inside double quotes like this:
<cfset objNewMail.Body = "Date of registration: #dateformat(now(),'mm/dd/y
<cfif #lcase(FORM.CDIpreconf)# is 'yes'>
Career Development Institute #CHR(13)#</cfif>
">
Or you can use double quotes inside single quotes like this:
<cfset objNewMail.Body ='Date of registration: #dateformat(now(),"mm/dd/y
<cfif #lcase(FORM.CDIpreconf)# is "yes">
Career Development Institute #CHR(13)#</cfif>
'>
To escape single or double quotes simply do this “Jeff said “”Go away”” ” or ‘Jeff said ‘’Go away’’ ‘