Re: [htmltmpl] using html::template for mail merge? pointers anyone?

[Andrew J. <an...@li...>]

Zachary Buckholz wrote:
> Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to utilize HTML::Template 
> and a mail merge module?
>  
> I finished my initial project http://www.securitysaint.com using 
> HTML::Template and CGI::Application but I want to build onto it by 
> sending weekly status emails to the users giving them stats for their 
> websites in a nice HTML table. You can see an example of what I am 
> trying to do here: http://www.securitysaint.com/stats_example.html
>  
> I already wrote the SQL queries I want to run and have pseudo code for 
> the application but the actual part of sending a HTML message is what I 
> am focusing on now.
>  
> I would like to be able to build a template just like I do for the 
> website, then have a perl script read the template, fill in the data and 
> send it off.
>  
> Has anyone used HTML::Template with a mail merge app? Can you provide 
> any pointers?
>  

I did this with MIME::Lite a while back.  Filling in a text file or HTML 
page without images was easy, but HTML w/images was a bit tricky.  But I 
now see that MIME::Lite::HTML has been created to handle exactly that.

Both of these modules are (of course) available on CPAN.