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Using Curly Brakets To Represent Code Snippets

Not sure if im going to be able to accomplish this but here goes anyway..

at the minute i have a rich text editor which allows users to type in text and bold, italic, colour etc and they they click the save button it posts to a script which then takes the HTML output from the rich text editor and saves the HTML to a field in the DB, a basic CMS system for content on a web page.

My question is this...

When i output the html on a display webpage (not in the rich text editor) i basically just fetch a recordset for that page and Response.Write the HTML field to the browser.

i would like to be able to define some fixed commands within the HTML such as:

{CustomerFirstName}
{CustomerLastName}
{CustomerAddress}

The idea is that if someone was typing into the rich text editor a sentence and they wanted to include a dynamic value into a certain place they would just create the sentence as such:

Dear {CustomerFirstname} {CustomerLastname},

Thank you for your order, it will be dispatached soon to your home address of:
{CustomerAddress}

When the customer webpage is run and it puls the HTML from the DB, it recognises the fixed command and inserts the correct value - basically like a mail merge in word.

Does anyone have an ideas of how to acomplish this as simply as possible?

Thans,
Carl

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Excellent!

I didnt even think about doing it that way... things are so simple when you have someone else look at them!

Final code attached below for future use. I can now add more fixed code snippets to whenever i want.

Thanks for your prompt solution to this question!

Carl

emailBody = RSemail("txtOrderReceivedBody")
emailBody = Replace(emailBody, "{FirstName}", txtFirstName)
emailBody = Replace(emailBody, "{LastName}", txtLastName)
emailBody = Replace(emailBody, "{OrderNumber}", intOrderID)
emailBody = Replace(emailBody, "{WebsiteAddress}", strWebAddress)
emailBody = Replace(emailBody, "{CompanyName}", strCompanyName)
emailBody = Replace(emailBody, "{Logo}", "<img src=""" & strWebAddress & strLogo & """>")

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