Adding Manufacture to Order Confirmation Email

I my a ZenNiewbie and I need to add the Manufactures Name of each item ordered in the Order Confirmation eMail. Can someone tell me where to find out to do this?

The order.php class builds the line-item output during the create-add-products() method. You'll have to lookup the manufacturer for each product and then add it as part of that output. Then the send-order-email() method will include that info when it sends the actual emails. You'll definitely need to put on your programmer's hat to do it.

Any chance you know the names of the methods or the file names they're in?

Yes, I included them in my previous post.

Found what I need to change but as a newbie to all this how do I get the products Manufactures name? I'm attempting to change the method create_add_products at the "// build output for email notification" section.

Can anyone help?

You could use the zen_get_products_manufacturers_name($product_id) function to look it up.

Thanks for the help, that was just what I needed. For those who come later here is what I had to add

zen_get_products_manufacturers_name($this->products[$i]['id'])

:clap:

Could you tell me exactly where you are putting this and everything you put in to make this work. I have several customers who would like this in their store, but for some reason I can't get it to work.

Thank you very much for your help

I'd like to do this too...any chance of some kind soul giving a step-by-step? My programmer's hat is missing a few top levels LOL :P

hello.. hope somebody can help me with this..
see attached file..

thanks!!

After much playing around, (I am very much an amateur programmer), I found that putting the function from Beau91324 (thanks Beau!) in: includes/classes/order.php here worked -

$this->notify('NOTIFY_ORDER_PROCESSING_ONE_TIME_CHARGES_BEGIN');

  // build output for email notification
  $this->products_ordered .=  $this->products[$i]['qty'] . ' x ' . zen_get_products_manufacturers_name($this->products[$i]['id']) . $this->products[$i]['name'] . ($this->products[$i]['model'] != '' ? ' (' . $this->products[$i]['model'] . ') ' : '') . ' = ' .
  $currencies->display_price($this->products[$i]['final_price'], $this->products[$i]['tax'], $this->products[$i]['qty']) .
  ($this->products[$i]['onetime_charges'] !=0 ? "\n" . TEXT_ONETIME_CHARGES_EMAIL . $currencies->display_price($this->products[$i]['onetime_charges'], $this->products[$i]['tax'], 1) : '') .
  $this->products_ordered_attributes . "\n";
  $this->products_ordered_html .=

Thanks for the update that you have this working and for posting the solution that worked for you ... :smile:

Hi Ajeh,
I have used this forum extensively over the years so it's great to be able to give a tiny bit back:smile:
Should add that the function mentioned needed a space:
.' '
at the end. (Us novices need that basic info!)

For those running 1.5.x, the following code worked a treat for me in bold below for the text message as well as HTML message. It puts the manufacturer first, followed by a hyphen, then the product name as per normal. This is done in the /httpdocs/includes/classes/order.php file around line 900:

  // build output for email notification
  $this->products_ordered .=  $this->products[$i]['qty'] . ' x ' **. zen_get_products_manufacturers_name($this->products[$i]['id']) . '-' . ** $this->products[$i]['name'] . ($this->products[$i]['model'] != '' ? ' (' . $this->products[$i]['model'] . ') ' : '') . ' = ' .
  $currencies->display_price($this->products[$i]['final_price'], $this->products[$i]['tax'], $this->products[$i]['qty']) .
  ($this->products[$i]['onetime_charges'] !=0 ? "\n" . TEXT_ONETIME_CHARGES_EMAIL . $currencies->display_price($this->products[$i]['onetime_charges'], $this->products[$i]['tax'], 1) : '') .
  $this->products_ordered_attributes . "\n";
  $this->products_ordered_html .=
  '<tr>' . "\n" .
  '<td class="product-details" align="right" valign="top" width="30">' . $this->products[$i]['qty'] . ' x</td>' . "\n" .
  '<td class="product-details" valign="top">' **. zen_get_products_manufacturers_name($this->products[$i]['id']) . ' - ' .** nl2br($this->products[$i]['name']) . ($this->products[$i]['model'] != '' ? ' (' . nl2br($this->products[$i]['model']) . ') ' : '') . "\n" .
  '<nobr>' .
  '<small><em> '. nl2br($this->products_ordered_attributes) .'</em></small>' .
  '</nobr>' .
  '</td>' . "\n" .
  '<td class="product-details-num" valign="top" align="right">' .
  $currencies->display_price($this->products[$i]['final_price'], $this->products[$i]['tax'], $this->products[$i]['qty']) .
  ($this->products[$i]['onetime_charges'] !=0 ?
  '</td></tr>' . "\n" . '<tr><td class="product-details">' . nl2br(TEXT_ONETIME_CHARGES_EMAIL) . '</td>' . "\n" .
  '<td>' . $currencies->display_price($this->products[$i]['onetime_charges'], $this->products[$i]['tax'], 1) : '') .
  '</td></tr>' . "\n";