Email Friend Subject

[MamaKitty]

v1.3.9h

The subject on emails sent through the Tell a Friend process show "Order Confirmation" as the subject line.

The file /includes/languages/english/tell_a_friend.php shows this:
define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

I copied that file to my /includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/tell_a_friend.php and made a change to the subject line (even though it already shows what the correct subject should be). No effect. I then changed some of the other info in the body of the email. Those changes took effect.

After searching the forums, I used the Developer's Tool Kit and searched for _subject in "CONSTANT or Language File defines" and for Order Confirmation in the "Look-up in all files". Didn't see any other files that would impact on the subject line of Tell a Friend emails.

Usually by the time I've finished typing out a question here, I have managed to find the answer for myself. Not so this time Help?

Dorothy

[MamaKitty]

site is whitewolfjewelry.com

Dorothy

[MamaKitty]

Kicking this back to the first page to see if someone can offer some insight.

Dorothy

[Ajeh]

If you go to your Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ... and in the bottom input box enter:
EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT

and select Catalog ... then click Search ...

What do you see in the files for tell_a_friend.php

What files do you see:
Order Confirmation

as the define definition?

[MamaKitty]

The "order confirmation" shows here:

/includes/languages/english/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

/includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

The tell_a_friend files are:

/includes/languages/english/tell_a_friend.php
Line #28 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

/includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/tell_a_friend.php
Line #28 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

/includes/modules/pages/tell_a_friend/header_php.php
Line #81 : $email_subject = sprintf(EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT, $from_name, STORE_NAME);

Thank you so much for your time, Ajeh.

Dorothy

[Ajeh]

This is probably overriding the settings:

/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

that runs as if it were part of the english.php file so the one for specific purposes can never run as the constant EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT is already defined ...

[MamaKitty]

I made a copy of the /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/checkout_process.php file and removed these two lines:
define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');
define('EMAIL_TEXT_HEADER', 'Order Confirmation');

I put the changed file in /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/CUSTOM. The header and subject of the tell_a_friend emails now has the correct info. I ran a test order and the change doesn't seem to have caused any problems on the actual order confirmation emails.

Thank you so much for your help. Coffee and a donut on its way :)

Dorothy

[Ajeh]

You are most welcome ... thanks for the details on how you tested the fix of these changes, always a help to others!

And thanks for the Coffee and a donut!