email templates - help!

[Rich Pedley]

After several years using the same system, things are getting to complex and I need an easy way of handling things.
I currently have little sections in a template like this:

--------------- DOWNLOAD DETAILS ---------------
These are available for download via:
{DOWNLOADS}
--------------- OTHER INFORMATION (if applicable) ---------------
{REFCOMM}

I'm currently doing a simple str_replace to replace the bracketed sections.

But what I want to do now, is to stop those little sections appearing if there is nothing to replace. Sort of like:

 if({DOWNLOADS}!='') print'--------------- DOWNLOAD DETAILS ---------------' etc... 
  

But I have no idea on how to do this that is easy for joe public to actually use.

erm help!

the only thing I can think of is to have a textarea for each section, but that does seem cumbersome.

[Rich Pedley]

no ideas then?

hmmm.

[Ipstenu]

We'd probably need more information.

What are you using to send out the email templates? A plugin?

[Rich Pedley]

it's a small part of a larger plugin. Using native WP to send the mail out (wp_mail)

[Rich Pedley]

argh - ok I think I've found a temporary solution... I'm just going to create a special template/new email for one of the sections. The others can stay as they are for now.