Email Friend Subject

v1.3.9h

The subject on emails sent through the Tell a Friend process show "Order Confirmation" as the subject line.

The file /includes/languages/english/tell_a_friend.php shows this:
define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

I copied that file to my /includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/tell_a_friend.php and made a change to the subject line (even though it already shows what the correct subject should be). No effect. I then changed some of the other info in the body of the email. Those changes took effect.

After searching the forums, I used the Developer's Tool Kit and searched for _subject in "CONSTANT or Language File defines" and for Order Confirmation in the "Look-up in all files". Didn't see any other files that would impact on the subject line of Tell a Friend emails.

Usually by the time I've finished typing out a question here, I have managed to find the answer for myself. Not so this time :( Help?

Dorothy

site is whitewolfjewelry.com

Dorothy

Kicking this back to the first page to see if someone can offer some insight.

Dorothy

If you go to your Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ... and in the bottom input box enter:
EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT

and select Catalog ... then click Search ...

What do you see in the files for tell_a_friend.php

What files do you see:
Order Confirmation

as the define definition?

The "order confirmation" shows here:

/includes/languages/english/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

/includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

The tell_a_friend files are:

/includes/languages/english/tell_a_friend.php
Line #28 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

/includes/languages/english/CUSTOM/tell_a_friend.php
Line #28 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Your friend %s has recommended this great product from %s');

/includes/modules/pages/tell_a_friend/header_php.php
Line #81 : $email_subject = sprintf(EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT, $from_name, STORE_NAME);

Thank you so much for your time, Ajeh.

Dorothy

This is probably overriding the settings:

/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/checkout_process.php
Line #22 : define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');

that runs as if it were part of the english.php file so the one for specific purposes can never run as the constant EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT is already defined ...

I made a copy of the /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/checkout_process.php file and removed these two lines:
define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Confirmation');
define('EMAIL_TEXT_HEADER', 'Order Confirmation');

I put the changed file in /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/CUSTOM. The header and subject of the tell_a_friend emails now has the correct info. I ran a test order and the change doesn't seem to have caused any problems on the actual order confirmation emails.

Thank you so much for your help. Coffee and a donut on its way :)

Dorothy

You are most welcome ... thanks for the details on how you tested the fix of these changes, always a help to others!

And thanks for the Coffee and a donut! :smile: