Changing gift certificate email to html as standard?

[ladygodiva]

And also because i am now being told this is like rocket science that is incomprehendable (?) here is a run down:

Gift Certificate for non customers = plain text emails as standard

Plain text emails to non customers must therefor be a command in the zencart files somewhere to achieve this

> How do i change than setting to html.

[schoolboy]

How many times does it have to be said...

Linda showed you how:

Admin>>>configuration>>>Email Options

Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails
Send e-mails in HTML format

true
false

[ladygodiva]

How many times do i have to reply saying i have done all of those things?? I am amazed you both seem to be way off the mark. Here's the quote from my actual reply to Linda, learn to read in future please:

I've changed the settings to html from the admin-config

Seem the issue may lie in the phpmailer file located here. This is the only file issue i can find that would set a email specifically to plain/text

public_html/shop/includes/classes/class.phpmailer.php

Line #48 : var $ContentType = "text/plain";

Line #245 : $this->ContentType = "text/plain";

Line #870 : "text/plain", "");

Line #900 : "text/plain", "") . $this->LE;

In future please get a clue before being rude about a issue either of you clearly have no knowledge of. Either that or read my replies fully.

[schoolboy]

Around line 245, do you have the following?

  /**
     * Sets message type to HTML.  
     * @param bool $bool
     * @return void
     */
  function IsHTML($bool) {
    if($bool == true)
    $this->ContentType = "text/html";
    else
    $this->ContentType = "text/plain";
  } 

(PS: what version of ZC are you using?)

[ladygodiva]

Hang on i'll check

Someone posted this thread ages ago too:

https://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39858

[ladygodiva]

And yes its exactly the same. This was all i was meaning about zencart setting the non customer gift certificates to plain/text and a simple way around it.

So is this the file, and would you change the variables to html/text?

I'm also using 1.3.7

[schoolboy]

You may get some pointers HERE

[DrByte]

ladygodiva, while their points are valid in the context in which they've read the message and their understanding of what can be done, it's clear everyone reading your requests has totally missed your specific point, or they don't know how to adjust its operation. And that's fine ... for them.

The email capability has intentionally been written to force outbound messages for non-customers to TEXT format ... for the reasons discussed above, and a few others.

However, that doesn't mean you can't change it for your site specifically.

So, here goes, but with a disclaimer first, in case people following along foolishly think this is a smart way to put on a bandage but end up shooting themselves in the foot instead ...

DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A BLANKET "FIX" to get HTML messages sending from your site. If you're not getting HTML emails, you're looking in the WRONG PLACE.

LOOK HERE INSTEAD: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Email_Problems



To force outgoing GV emails to be in HTML mode regardless of customer preference, find line 120 in your /includes/functions/functions_email.php file, where the following section of code appears, and insert the highlighted lines as shown:

      //determine what format to send messages in if this is an "extra"/admin-copy email:
      if (ADMIN_EXTRA_EMAIL_FORMAT == 'TEXT' && substr($module,-6)=='_extra') {
        $email_html='';  // just blank out the html portion if admin has selected text-only mode
      }

      if ($customers_email_format != 'HTML' && $email_html != '' && ($module == 'gv_send' || $module == 'gv_mail')) {
        $customers_email_format = 'HTML';
      }
      
      //notifier intercept option
      $zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_EMAIL_AFTER_EMAIL_FORMAT_DETERMINED');

[donplay]

I tried this and it worked like a charm...thanks, DrByte!

[orchidlake]

thank you!!! thank you!!! thank you DrByte!!!