Email Welcome - use customer's first name only

[NJka]

Hi there

I have had a rather disastrous play around with the createaccount.php file to try and change the Welcome Email to only use the customer's first name. I'm sure this is something simple but I don't know enough to figure it out. Here's the code I need to change:

// greeting salutation
define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'Welcome to Kodomo');
define('EMAIL_GREET_MR', 'Dear Mr. %s,' . "\n\n");
define('EMAIL_GREET_MS', 'Dear Ms. %s,' . "\n\n");
define('EMAIL_GREET_NONE', 'Dear %s' . "\n\n");

Can anyone help? TIA

[NJka]

Bump. Can anyone help a newbie? Thank you!

[DrByte]

You'll have to hack apart the code in the create_account.php file so that it uses completely different details when sending, and then you'll have to alter your language files to remove the Mr or Ms etc

[NJka]

Thanks for the reponse, DrByte. If I read between the lines I think you're saying that I should just stick with the default setup! Will do for now.

[DrByte]

You could alternatively disable the Gender selection in Admin->Configuration->Customer Details, and then it won't use Mr/Ms as the greeting.

[NJka]

Thanks again, DrByte. Turning off gender selection wasn't exactly what I wanted to do but I think it is a good workaround.