Please help with Create Account email - create_account.php changed - email the same

[wallfly]

I cannot find where Zen Card is getting the text for certain parts of the Account creation email.

I have the create_account.php file open in front of me right now and it is full of email variables - but they are not all of the ones being used by Zen Cart for the Create account email.

I have successfully changed the create account email to welcome people to the right store name. I then changed the EMAIL_TEXT, EMAIL_CONTACT etc in create_account.php - but these are not the variables being used for the create account email.

My create account email still says:
**************************************************************

"With your account, you can now take part in the various services we have to
offer you. Some of these services include:

Permanent Cart - Any products added to your online cart remain there until
you remove them, or check them out.

Address Book - We can now deliver your products to another address other
than yours! This is perfect to send birthday gifts direct to the
birthday-person themselves.

Order History - View your history of purchases that you have made with us.

Products Reviews - Share your opinions on products with our other customers."

******************************************************************
I cannot find where any of this text is - I really have tried!!
I thought this would be a common problem - and have found similar queries but they all directed people to the create_account.php file - and I have altered that but nothing has changed in the email.

Maybe all this is right under my nose...but I have left this for weeks before putting on the forum, and I am going to get my ###### kicked by my client for not changing the welcome email.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

[Kim]

The file is: includes/languages/english/create_account.php

The section is:

Line #35 : define('EMAIL_TEXT', 'With your account, you can now take part in the <strong>various services</strong> we have to offer you. Some of these services include:' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Permanent Cart</strong> - Any products added to your online cart remain there until you remove them, or check them out.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Address Book</strong> - We can now deliver your products to another address other than yours! This is perfect to send birthday gifts direct to the birthday-person themselves.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Order History</strong> - View your history of purchases that you have made with us.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Products Reviews</strong> - Share your opinions on products with our other customers.' . "\n\n");

After you have changed it save it to your override directory, includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/create_account.php

[afirst]

Hello,:

I got the same problem, has already change the create_account.php / same location!

Is probably about the cache or session ?

I saw my admin page "welcome email" has change , buy still not affect the new create account!

Any expert can help ... cry:

Thank you very much
######## Leung

[lpettyjohn]

I'm a newbie to ZenCart and have found the forums and FAQs very helpful, but I'm stumped on this one issue.

I'm having the same problem with my welcome email. I've spent hours reading threads and searching the forums and they all point to the /shop/includes/language/english/create_account.php file. I've updated the 'EMAIL_TEXT' just like this thread mentions and have reloaded it to my server, but the email that is generated when I submit a test registration still has the old text. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Could it be something with my settings in Admin -> Configurations -> E-mail Options? Am I editing the wrong file somehow? Is this stored somewhere as a default that I need to override?



Please help!

v1.3.9c

[DrByte]

You've probably created an override version of the file in your custom template's language folder (which is the right thing to do), but when you do that then *that* is the place where you need to make your edits, instead of in the original file.

/includes/languages/english/create_account.php --- ORIGINAL FILE
/includes/languagees/english/Name_Of_Your_Template_Here/create_account.php ---> Your override file where you should make your changes.

[lpettyjohn]

I don't have a template override - I didn't know I needed that until I was two weeks into customizing my templates. Now, I can't figure out how to do it without loosing a ton of my edits.

I changed the create_account.php file, the only one in that directory. It still hasn't changed the text, just like the other posters mentioned.

Where else could this text be pulling from? I noticed in the /admin/add_customers.php file, near line 340 there is this:

$html_msg['EMAIL_MESSAGE_HTML']  = str_replace('\n','',sprintf(EMAIL_TEXT,$customers_password));
    $html_msg['EMAIL_CONTACT_OWNER'] = str_replace('\n','',EMAIL_CONTACT);
    $html_msg['EMAIL_CLOSURE']       = nl2br(EMAIL_GV_CLOSURE); 

I'm certainly no expert, but this is the only place where EMAIL_TEXT is mentioned that I can find and it is in reference of another field called EMAIL_MESSAGE_HTML, which I could not locate in the create_account.php file.

Could EMAIL_TEXT text only be used when the email is generated if you send the emails as HTML and not text-only emails? Is there a universal setting to ensure the email says the correct thing no matter what email type the customer chooses?

It seems like there would be a simple answer to this, but I can't seem to figure this out.....

Any other suggestions?

[hara]

The file is: includes/languages/english/create_account.php

The section is:

Line #35 : define('EMAIL_TEXT', 'With your account, you can now take part in the <strong>various services</strong> we have to offer you. Some of these services include:' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Permanent Cart</strong> - Any products added to your online cart remain there until you remove them, or check them out.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Address Book</strong> - We can now deliver your products to another address other than yours! This is perfect to send birthday gifts direct to the birthday-person themselves.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Order History</strong> - View your history of purchases that you have made with us.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Products Reviews</strong> - Share your opinions on products with our other customers.' . "\n\n");

After you have changed it save it to your override directory, includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/create_account.php

Hello,

How to include hyperlink image in this mail? This is a little complicate environment. I did not test it yet, hope someone can help with good suggestion. Thanks!

[goosedesign]

I'm also having this issue. I've made changes to the language file and they're showing up correctly if I got to tools > email welcome in the site admin, but the actual email sent is still an old version. The changes have been made to the file in the override folder and the original just for good measure, and there are no other, older files in the same directory. Any ideas anyone?

[hara]

I'm also having this issue. I've made changes to the language file and they're showing up correctly if I got to tools > email welcome in the site admin, but the actual email sent is still an old version. The changes have been made to the file in the override folder and the original just for good measure, and there are no other, older files in the same directory. Any ideas anyone?

Delete the old create_account.php file, test it again see what happen.

[goosedesign]

I deleted both files:

/includes/languages/english/create_account.php and
/includes/languages/english/MY_TEMPLATE/create_account.php

Still the same message. Where could it be coming from? I'm using the Fast & Easy one page checkout. Anyone know if that has a different language file or anything?