Send additional registration info to admin create account email - create_account.php

[BuddyH]

Hi,
I have added some extra fields to the registration process on my stoer and added the corresponding columns in my db. Everything works very nicely, however I am trying to get the extra data sent to the admin create account email when new users sign up.

I can see from the emails I am getting that I am hacking the right part of the create_account.php file, I am clearly just not understanding what the code is doing. Here's what I have..

// send additional emails

    if (SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO_STATUS == '1' and SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO !='') {

      if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) {

        $account_query = "select customers_firstname, customers_lastname, customers_email_address, customers_telephone, customers_mobile, customers_fax, customers_qualified_unqualified, customers_how_long, customers_academy_details, customers_qualifications, customers_products_used

                            from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . "

                            where customers_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "'";



        $account = $db->Execute($account_query);

      }

 // ######################  ADDITIONAL CUSTOMER INFORMATION SENT TO EMAIL NOTIFICATION #################### //
      $extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address,$telephone,$mobile,$qualified,$how_long,$academy_details,$qualifications,$products_used,$fax, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_mobile'], $account->fields['customers_qualified_unqualified'],  $account->fields['customers_how_long'],  $account->fields['customers_academy_details'],  $account->fields['customers_qualifications'],  $account->fields['customers_products_used'],  $account->fields['customers_fax']);

      $html_msg['EXTRA_INFO'] = $extra_info['HTML'];

      if (trim(SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO_SUBJECT) != 'n/a') zen_mail('', SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO, SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO_SUBJECT . ' ' . EMAIL_SUBJECT,

      $email_text . $extra_info['TEXT'], STORE_NAME, EMAIL_FROM, $html_msg, 'welcome_extra');

    } //endif send extra emails 

[BuddyH]

Can anyone help me with this? I'm having a little trouble understanding what this code is doing.

Thanks :)

[twistafix]

Can anyone help me with this? I'm having a little trouble understanding what this code is doing.

Thanks :)

Hi Buddy, I know it's a while since you posted this, but I just stumbled upon it looking to do the same thing. Did you get it working? You did not say what the problem with it was, I have a limited understanding of php, but I think I can see a potential problem in your code.

$extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address,$telephone,$mobile,$qualified,$how_long,$academy_details,$qualifications,$products_used,$fax, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_mobile'], $account->fields['customers_qualified_unqualified'],  $account->fields['customers_how_long'],  $account->fields['customers_academy_details'],  $account->fields['customers_qualifications'],  $account->fields['customers_products_used'],  $account->fields['customers_fax']); 

I think the above should be written as

$extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_mobile'], $account->fields['customers_qualified_unqualified'],  $account->fields['customers_how_long'],  $account->fields['customers_academy_details'],  $account->fields['customers_qualifications'],  $account->fields['customers_products_used'],  $account->fields['customers_fax']); 

I've not tried this with my own code yet but will be looking into it so will check back once I have.

[twistafix]

Hi Buddy, I know it's a while since you posted this, but I just stumbled upon it looking to do the same thing. Did you get it working? You did not say what the problem with it was, I have a limited understanding of php, but I think I can see a potential problem in your code.

$extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address,$telephone,$mobile,$qualified,$how_long,$academy_details,$qualifications,$products_used,$fax, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_mobile'], $account->fields['customers_qualified_unqualified'],  $account->fields['customers_how_long'],  $account->fields['customers_academy_details'],  $account->fields['customers_qualifications'],  $account->fields['customers_products_used'],  $account->fields['customers_fax']); 

I think the above should be written as

$extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_mobile'], $account->fields['customers_qualified_unqualified'],  $account->fields['customers_how_long'],  $account->fields['customers_academy_details'],  $account->fields['customers_qualifications'],  $account->fields['customers_products_used'],  $account->fields['customers_fax']); 

I've not tried this with my own code yet but will be looking into it so will check back once I have.

Well, I have tried what I suggested above and the extra field info is not included in the email sent to admin. Just to clarify, the file being edited is

includes/modules/MY_TEMPLATE/create_account.php

I also added wholesale_extrafield to the section of code above the part we are talking about, so that it now looks like this

$account_query = "select customers_firstname, customers_lastname, customers_email_address, customers_telephone, customers_fax, wholesale_extrafield
                            from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . "
                            where customers_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "'";

        $account = $db->Execute($account_query); 

but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any ideas how to include the extra information in the email sent to the admin upon account creation?

Thanks :)

[DrByte]

No. There's a lot more to merely using the email_collect_extra_info() function than just stuffing more parameters onto the end of it.

Try adding a new line like this instead, still in the create_account.php file:

      $extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_fax']);
$extra_info['TEXT'] .= "\n" . 'Wholesale: ' . $account->fields['wholesale_extrafield'];

[twistafix]

No. There's a lot more to merely using the email_collect_extra_info() function than just stuffing more parameters onto the end of it.

Try adding a new line like this instead, still in the create_account.php file:

      $extra_info=email_collect_extra_info($name,$email_address, $account->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $account->fields['customers_lastname'], $account->fields['customers_email_address'], $account->fields['customers_telephone'], $account->fields['customers_fax']);
$extra_info['TEXT'] .= "\n" . 'Wholesale: ' . $account->fields['wholesale_extrafield'];

DrByte, that worked perfectly, thank you

I can see from your suggestion where I was going wrong, and also that I need to check the how the functions work before trying to mess with them lol

Thanks again