Displaying User Email in Welcome Email

[itsjosh]

I've done an hours worth of searching through the forums and several hours worth of meddling with my code in the language file create_account.php and the create_account.php in modules (both under my templates folder heirarchy as per the override system) and can't seem to get the user's email address to show up in their welcome email.
I've added a definition to the create_account language file:

define('CUSTOMER_EMAIL_ADDRESS', $email_address); 

I then use this to try calling that constant within my body text:

define('EMAIL_TEXT', '<div class="content-heading">Membership Information </div>' . "\n" . ' <li><strong>Username:</strong>' . CUSTOMER_EMAIL_ADDRESS  . "\n" . 

In the create_account module file I added this around line 326

$_SESSION['customers_email_address'] = $email_address; 

Thinking it would pass the e-mail address variable on.
Admittedly, I'm a beginner at PHP and am just getting my bearings.
Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong and/or how I can get this to work?

And yes, I realize that it is a bit redundant to include someone's email address in an email being sent TO that address, but seeing as it IS their user name and people often have different addresses (and most importantly, to pander to even the dumbest customers) I need to have this. Thanks.

[ScriptJunkie]

I'm new to PHP as well and can't answer this, but I can offer an alternative.

What if you edited the email language file for the welcome email to tell them that their user name/logon is the email address that they received their welcome email to?

If you do that, you might also mention that for security purposes, you are unable to provide the password and remind them to keep it in a secure location, and perhaps tell them about the password reset function in case they forget it.

[dbltoe]

Last time I looked, the login does not say username, but says Email Address. If yours says something different, you may have a strange template.

[kdays]

I am also looking at the best way to do this. I'd like to add the customer's email address that they used to register included in the welcome email. I can achieve this using the $EMAIL_TO_ADDRESS in the html template to achieve this welcome email:



The problem is that because I've used the html template file (email_template_welcome.html) to achieve this, it doesn't seem to flow through to the plain text email version.

Is there a way that I can call the customer's email address so that it can be used in the create_account.php file in the same way that STORE_NAME and EMAIL_FROM can be used.

Thanks for any and all suggestions :)

[DrByte]

You would have to hard-code it in a custom copy of your /includes/modules/create_account.php file.

[kdays]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction DrByte :)

[kdays]

DrByte, I've tried all sorts of variations of trying to code this in /includes/modules/create_account.php and am not having much luck.

I've been trying to use $email_address - is this correct?

What should the format be?

Thanks for your help.

[DrByte]

You'll have to add $email_address to $email_text.

[kdays]

I've added $email_address to this line:

$email_text .= "\n\n" . EMAIL_TEXT . EMAIL_CONTACT . EMAIL_GV_CLOSURE . $email_address;

Do I also need to add an extra $html_msg statement?

[DrByte]

$html_msg values are only used for HTML-formatted emails, which I thought you said were already working fine.