Mylar Monks,

So I'm using Template Toolkit to output dynamic web pages. So far so good.

I'm adding a "email me my profile info" button. When clicked on, I want to retrieve the user's profile info from teh db, populate an email template, send it to the user via sendmail, then populate a confirmation template and serve it to the user saying "ths info was just emailed to you...".

So I tried ( in pseudo code):

    $vars = {
        image_path => $image_path,
        data => \%data,
    };

    $subject = "contact info";

    $template_file = 'contact_info_email.htm';

    $template_1->process($template_file, $vars)
    || die "Template process failed: ", $template->error(), "\n";

    &send_mail_html($email, $from_address, $subject, $template_1);

    $template_file = 'confirm_contact_info_email.htm';

    $template->process($template_file, $vars)
    || die "Template process failed: ", $template->error(), "\n";
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Where &send_mail_html contacins, among other things, the usual:

    $to_address = $_[0];
    $from = $_[1];
    $subject = $_[2];
    $content = $_[3];
.....
    print MAIL "To:    print MAIL "From: $from\n";
    print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
    print MAIL "$content\n";
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And it almost works. The user gets an email, and a confirmation page. But with two problems:

1. The email contents says: "Template=HASH(0x84fbe20)", instead of containing the template
2. The confirmation page contains both the templates, the email template AND the confirmation template

So, I'm clearly doing somethign wrong. How should I be doing this?

Thanks.

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In reply to Template Toolkit: Output one template to Sendmail, another to browser? by punch_card_don

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