Order confirmation email editing

[Daviator]

I have tried and tried to edit the order.php file to change the plain text content that is emailed with an order. No matter what I add no changes occur to my incoming emails.

I have added several new variables to the email_extras.php file including the sample below:

define('FIRST_NAME_C','first:');


I have then tried adding it (and existing variables) to the includes/classes/order.php file but it (or any other variable ever appear in my emails):

I tried like this: (line 894ish)

$this->products_ordered_attributes .= $custom_insertable_text;
$EMAIL_FFIRST_NAME_C;


And like this:

$this->products_ordered_attributes .= $EMAIL_FFIRST_NAME_C;

I've read all I could in this forum, in the wiki, in the tutorials and via Google but I'm beginning to think that it's just broken. (Sorry for a new thread on this but my old one got diverted down a dead-end path).

[gjh42]

Having all the posts in one place would keep this thread from going down the same path. I have been trying to edit aspects of admin copies of order confirmation and contact e-mails also, with some success and some failure.

[Daviator]

My other thread was diverted due to the reason I wanted to edit the email. Hence the reason it's not mentioned here. I truly think that it was "broken" along the way as the instructions I keep reading are for a much older version than 1.5. I've also seen responses like "OH yeah, you can do that.".... OK... but how (besides linking me back to the tutorial that doesn't work)