Using HTML in Mandrill handlebar merge variables

Question

If I have a handlebar merge variable like {{message}} in my template, how can I have it render HTML output if given the following in PHP:

array(
    'name' => 'message',
    'content' => '<p>First paragraph.</p><p>Second paragraph.</p>'
)

Right now it outputs the content without parsing the paragraph tags.

Answer 1

If you're using Handlebars I think the proper way to do it is with triple braces, e.g:

{{{html_content}}}

I'm not sure it is ok to mix mc:edit with Handlebars in Mandrill:

Combining Handlebars with either mc:edit regions or merge tags in a single message isn't supported. You should pick Handlebars or mc:edit regions plus merge tags.

https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205582537-Using-Handlebars-for-dynamic-content

Answer 2

Actually when sending using mandrill the message variable has a field merge_language and when you change to this

'merge_language' => 'handlebars'

It works. For your case i think the value is default 'mailchimp' hence the need to use mc:edit

Answer 3

To answer my own question, I just added mc:edit="message" to the div containing the message, like this:

<div mc:edit="message"></div>

I then added this to my structure:

$template_content = array(
    array(
        'name' => 'message',
        'content' => '<p>First paragraph.</p><p>Second paragraph.</p>'
    ),
);