Order Email Templates

[Nick1973]

Not sure if this fits in here, however I need to know if its possible for the customer to receive a different html format email to the admins html formatted email?

[DrByte]

It would require some customization ... but can you be more specific about why? and "how" different?

[Nick1973]

Thats what I thought. The HTML Emails the customer receives at the moment contain banners with links to social media and offers etc. If I enable HTML emails for the admin they get the same format with the banners and offers, however, my client doesn't want these on the emails he gets, he only wants banners on the emails the customer gets. BUT, he does want to display his logo on the emails he receives and does want to retain the format the customer gets, just without the banners. The reason he doesn't want to receive the same email as the customer is because when an order comes through by email, it automatically gets printed and if he gets the same email as the customer with the banners, it prints off three pages for each html format order email. This is obviously unnecessary and leads to waste paper and alot of wasted ink. He wants to keep the same format as the customer as he has people that do his packing who pick off the printout and have to be able to read it easily. We have already tried switching off the HTML format for the admin emails, but the problem with that, is that sometimes the details on the email get printed off bunched up, which leads to errors if his packing staff are in a rush to get things in the post e.g. They may read the email, but miss something because it is not clearly formatted.

I hope that makes some sense?

[DrByte]

/includes/classes/order.php
At line 1091 (in v155), you'll see the following section. Add the line shown:

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

      $html_msg['EMAIL_TEMPLATE_FILENAME'] = DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES . "email_template_admin_orders";

      // include authcode and transaction id in admin-copy of email

Then go to the /email/ and clone the email_template_checkout.html file to a new file called email_template_admin_orders.html ... and remove the advertisements from that file.



Ideally the better way would be to *not* touch the order.php file, but to instead create a small observer class which listens for 'NOTIFY_ORDER_INVOICE_CONTENT_FOR_ADDITIONAL_EMAILS' and puts that code change inside its update actions.

[Nick1973]

/includes/classes/order.php
At line 1091 (in v155), you'll see the following section. Add the line shown:

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

      $html_msg['EMAIL_TEMPLATE_FILENAME'] = DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES . "email_template_admin_orders";

      // include authcode and transaction id in admin-copy of email

Then go to the /email/ and clone the email_template_checkout.html file to a new file called email_template_admin_orders.html ... and remove the advertisements from that file.



Ideally the better way would be to *not* touch the order.php file, but to instead create a small observer class which listens for 'NOTIFY_ORDER_INVOICE_CONTENT_FOR_ADDITIONAL_EMAILS' and puts that code change inside its update actions.

Ok well the order.php way seems easy enough.

How would I do it with 'NOTIFY_ORDER_INVOICE_CONTENT_FOR_ADDITIONAL_EMAILS' then?

[Nick1973]

How would I adjust this https://www.zen-cart.com/entry.php?4...Create-Account

to create an observer for the order email then? Obviously the order.php way will do for now but I would like to do it properly.

[DrByte]

How would I do it with 'NOTIFY_ORDER_INVOICE_CONTENT_FOR_ADDITIONAL_EMAILS' then?

Requires v1.5.5 minimum

Create a new file (filename matters, because "auto.admin_order_email_html_template.php" corresponds to "zcObserverAdminOrderEmailHtmlTemplate") :

/includes/classes/observers/auto.admin_order_email_html_template.php

<?php
/**
 * Specify alternate Admin HTML template for order emails
 * Observer class designed for v1.5.5
 */

class zcObserverAdminOrderEmailHtmlTemplate extends base {

  function __construct() {
    $this->attach($this, array('NOTIFY_ORDER_INVOICE_CONTENT_FOR_ADDITIONAL_EMAILS'));
  }

  function updateNotifyOrderInvoiceContentForAdditionalEmails(&$class, $eventID, &$zf_insert_id, &$email_order, &$html_msg)
  {
    $html_msg['EMAIL_TEMPLATE_FILENAME'] = DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES . "email_template_admin_orders";
  }
}

[Nick1973]

Requires v1.5.5 minimum

Create a new file (filename matters, because "auto.admin_order_email_html_template.php" corresponds to "zcObserverAdminOrderEmailHtmlTemplate") :

/includes/classes/observers/auto.admin_order_email_html_template.php

<?php
/**
 * Specify alternate Admin HTML template for order emails
 * Observer class designed for v1.5.5
 */

class zcObserverAdminOrderEmailHtmlTemplate extends base {

  function __construct() {
    $this->attach($this, array('NOTIFY_ORDER_INVOICE_CONTENT_FOR_ADDITIONAL_EMAILS'));
  }

  function updateNotifyOrderInvoiceContentForAdditionalEmails(&$class, $eventID, &$zf_insert_id, &$email_order, &$html_msg)
  {
    $html_msg['EMAIL_TEMPLATE_FILENAME'] = DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES . "email_template_admin_orders";
  }
}

Ok well the cart is currently running 1.5.4 so the first task will obviously be to upgrade. Then I will give this a go. Thanks very much Dr Byte! :-)