Email template engine
Newest version of Mail.dll email client includes a easy to use template engine.
It allows you to easily create html template for your emails:
Loading and rendering such template requires one line of code:
Contact contact = ...;
string html = Template
.FromFile("template.txt")
.DataFrom(contact)
.Render();
This is how the template looks like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Your order</title>
</head>
<body>
Hi [FirstName] [LastName],
<br />
<p>
Your account [if Verified]has[else]<strong>has not</strong>[end] been verified. <br/>
Your password is: [Password].
</p>
<p>
Here are your orders:
</p>
[foreach Orders]
<p>
Order sent to <strong>[Street]</strong>:
</p>
<table style="width: 30%;">
[foreach Items]
<tr style="background-color: #E0ECFF;">
<td>[Name]</td><td>[Price]</td>
</tr>
[end]
</table>
[end]
<p>
Thank you for your orders.
<p>
</body>
</html>
Here’s the sample of how to load, fill the template and send it using Mail.dll:
Mail.Html(Template
.FromFile("template.txt")
.DataFrom(_contact)
.Render())
.Text("This is text version of the message.")
.From(new MailBox("alice@mail.com", "Alice"))
.To(new MailBox("bob@mail.com", "Bob"))
.Subject("Your order")
.UsingNewSmtp()
.WithCredentials("alice@mail.com", "password")
.Server("mail.com")
.WithSSL()
.Send();
And this is how the data used by template look like:
public class Contact
{
public List<Order> Orders { get; private set; }
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public bool Verified;
private string Password { get; set; }
public Contact()
{
Orders = new List<Order>();
}
} ;
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:40 am
This is a very usefull thing and easy to implement thanks to your tutorial! Great job.