Passing Dynamic Variables

I have stored, in a MySQL table, various emails in an html format, the content column being called htmlcontent which is a column text type. I am therefore able to store many different html emails and using dynamic process able to create an email campaign where I can choose the recipients from one recordset and the html email content from another recordset an bam, the email gets sent of to all the recipients no problem.

However, I have discovered that I am unable to do one thing that would really help me, particularly in terms of tracking who opened the email. Lets say in the html email I have a stored in MySQL, I have a link which is laid out something like this when it is pulled in to the page for sending;

<p>some text here</p>

<a href="http://www.mywebdomains.co.uk/emails/january-1.php?readerID=1">Click Here to read this Online</a>

<p>some text here</p>

Note the readerID in the URL link. Is there a way to get UE to echo that id properly as currently, even though I have reference the correct recordset, when the email arrives it shows the link like this;

<a href="http://www.mywebdomains.co.uk/emails/january-1.php?<?php echo readerID=1" ?> >Click Here to read this Online</a>

As you can see it renders the whole echo function not the ID i required. Now, I understand that if I lay html out in the UE dialogue I can include dynamic elements from records sets that are available on the page but, that means I have to created a separate waue_filename_1.php for each email template I created.

I am probably overlooking something here real basic...can enyonw shine a light on a solution for me?

can you send a copy of your page and the webassist/email folder so i can examine the code.

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  can you send a copy of your page and the webassist/email folder so i can examine the code.  

OR...is there way I can't think to to include some sort of tracking mechanism like on the emails you guys send out OR contact Contact?

Originally Said By: drew.paget161534

  OR...is there way I can't think to to include some sort of tracking mechanism like on the emails you guys send out OR contact Contact?  

In fact...how do you do yours...those promotional emails I get fomr webassist...thats what Im trying to do?!

You have querys on the image or viewonline link

:-)

What syntax are you using to add the link currently?

You should be able to echo values, so there must be an issue with how you are adding it. Where do you want the value to come from? Is the readerid in the recordset you are using to send the emails and get the TO address?

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  What syntax are you using to add the link currently?

You should be able to echo values, so there must be an issue with how you are adding it. Where do you want the value to come from? Is the readerid in the recordset you are using to send the emails and get the TO address?  

Yes - the readerid is in a recordset being used in the page (sending the mail) as is the TO address

The content of the html email is stored in a mysql table, in a text column, so for example it the content of the text column might look like this...

<p>some content here</p>

Hello <php echo therecordset['Firstname']; ?>

<p>some more content here</p>

This column is then referenced to in the page (the page sending the mail) as the content.

So when I open the dialogue box and choose the content I choose the recordset column as defined.

Read the top sticky thread in the universal email group:

showthread.php?t=17869

it talks about adding details from the recordset to the body.

To make this a little clearer. The page template / content is stored in mysql and is fetched by a recordset in the page sending the email. In UE it is inserted ino the Email Message Body Editor using the dynamic lightening bolt and the value in the Email Message Body Editor looks like this...

<?php echo $row_rsContent['htmlcontent']?>

Which then pulls data from the recordset/mysql table/column which looks like this below. And, for example I wish to be able to place the readerid on the "Click Here if you are unable to view this email properly" link.

<head>
<title>January Campaign One</title>
</head>
<body bottommargin="0" topmargin="5px" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bgcolor="#000000">
<table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000024"><table width="600" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="600" align="center" style="padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:10px; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px;"><a href="#?readerid=<?php echo $row_rsRecipients['readerid']); ?>" style="color:#FFF">Click Here if you are unable to view this email properly</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000" style="padding:15px 0px 15px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold;color:#FFFFFF">SAVINGS ON LOTS OF PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT JANUARY 2011 VISIT WEBSITE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="padding:5px 0px 10px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;font-weight:regular;color:#231f20; text-align:center">My Business Address</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Does this make it a little clearer...any help appreciated!

PS in the a link there is a #. This is for this post...the real email contains an absolute URL instead.
PSS As you can also see there are two recordsets on the page rsContent that gets the content for the page and rsRecipients which gets the id and email for each recipients. These two recordsets are available on the page sending the email.

I think you just use:

<?php echo($RecipArray[$RecipIndex][0]["htmlcontent"]); ?>

instead of:

<?php echo $row_rsContent['htmlcontent']?>

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  I think you just use:

<?php echo($RecipArray[$RecipIndex][0]["htmlcontent"]); ?>

instead of:

<?php echo $row_rsContent['htmlcontent']?>  

Hi..I have uploaded some files so you can take a look at what is happening. Start with Read_Me_First.php