Order confirmation email to insert additional info?

[adolgin]

Some of our customers buy upgrades so they send their equipment back to us. In the order confirmation email, they do not currently see the address to ship to/ instructions.
As I am not a php programmer, what would be the simplest method to edit the order.php (right?) file so it has a paragraph or a line with instructions where to send their item? Ideally, it would be just one line "if you send your item for service, follow the link" with me maintaining a separate EZ-pages file I can quickly edit in the future.

[swguy]

There is actually no simple way to do this. But there really should be.

Sit tight - I'll submit a PR for 1.5.6 and link back to here so you can copy the code.

[swguy]

Here you go:

https://github.com/zencart/zencart/pull/1670/commits

[adolgin]

Super quick and helpful reply, thank you so much, it worked!
Do I have a way to insert a link in the newly added instructions to another site using HTML?

[swguy]

Yes. Just update ./includes/languages/english/email_extras.php and set

define('EMAIL_ORDER_MESSAGE','');

to

define('EMAIL_ORDER_MESSAGE','If you are sending your item for service, please see <a href="http://www.example.com/explain.html">the explanation page</a>');

[adolgin]

Just when I thought to be there, something does not work. I inserted the link info into email_extras.php as you suggested, using my own info:

define('EMAIL_ORDER_MESSAGE','Attention!!!For upgrades and service please ship your product to: Dolgin Engineering 1019 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA 02420 and email us tracking information when available <a href="http://www.dolgin.net/Sending_product.html">instructions</a>');
But in confirmation email the link is skipped and the result looks like:

Attention!!!For upgrades and service please ship your product to: Dolgin Engineering 1019 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA 02420 and email us tracking information when available instructions

[swguy]

I was just writing up documentation about this.

Note that there is only one message for both HTML and plain text messages, so don't rely on embedded HTML.
// DO NOT DO THIS:
define('EMAIL_ORDER_MESSAGE','Thank you for your order! For more fantastic deals, please <a href="http://www.example.com/signup.php">sign up for our newsletter</a>.');

// DO THIS INSTEAD:
define('EMAIL_ORDER_MESSAGE','Thank you for your order! For more fantastic deals, please sign up for our newsletter at <a href="http://www.example.com/signup.php">http://www.example.com/signup.php</a>.');

[adolgin]

Yes, it did it :-) Thank you again!

[swguy]

This modification was ultimately released as a plugin available here: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2200
and this functionality is built in to Zen Cart 1.5.6.