Nov 17th, 2009, 6:59 PM
Heya,
Well, I have a solution, but it's not ideal. Somewhere along the line, either through the WYSIWYG CodeMirror editor that's used to display the HTML & Text content fields on the email tab, or with the backend code itself, the characters are automatically being converted. So < becomes <, etc.
So what you can do is bypass it altogether using the Hooks Manager module, which you can download here:
http://modules.formtools.org/hooks_manag...page=index
That module lets you add your own code to be executed at any point within Form Tools. In this case, what we're going to do is use it to create some additional placeholders for use in your email template. These placeholders will contain your raw HTML.
Here's how to do it:
1. Download & install the module.
2. In the module, create a new rule with the following values:
Status: Enabled
Rule Name: Email placeholders
Priority: 50
Hook Type: Code Hook
Code Hook: _ft_get_placeholder_hash, end
PHP Code:
The $html variable can actually contain whatever raw HTML you want embedded.
Then, after adding the rule, return to your email template and in the HTML template add the following line:
{$encoded_html}
That's a new placeholder that you just created: your email will then display the HTML within your emails. You can define as many placeholders as you want in that single Hooks Manager rule - all of them will be available to your email templates.
Hope this helps! :-)
- Ben
Well, I have a solution, but it's not ideal. Somewhere along the line, either through the WYSIWYG CodeMirror editor that's used to display the HTML & Text content fields on the email tab, or with the backend code itself, the characters are automatically being converted. So < becomes <, etc.
So what you can do is bypass it altogether using the Hooks Manager module, which you can download here:
http://modules.formtools.org/hooks_manag...page=index
That module lets you add your own code to be executed at any point within Form Tools. In this case, what we're going to do is use it to create some additional placeholders for use in your email template. These placeholders will contain your raw HTML.
Here's how to do it:
1. Download & install the module.
2. In the module, create a new rule with the following values:
Status: Enabled
Rule Name: Email placeholders
Priority: 50
Hook Type: Code Hook
Code Hook: _ft_get_placeholder_hash, end
PHP Code:
PHP Code:
$html = "<b>HTML here</b>";
$placeholders["encoded_html"] = htmlspecialchars($html);
The $html variable can actually contain whatever raw HTML you want embedded.
Then, after adding the rule, return to your email template and in the HTML template add the following line:
{$encoded_html}
That's a new placeholder that you just created: your email will then display the HTML within your emails. You can define as many placeholders as you want in that single Hooks Manager rule - all of them will be available to your email templates.
Hope this helps! :-)
- Ben