Modifying email templates

Where do you modify email templates for notifications?
updated by @dannya: 02/05/15 12:04:50PM

They should be in the module templates directory:
email_yourfunction_message.tpl
email_yourfunction_subject.tpl

Or overridden in the skin directory:
yourModule_email_yourfunction_message.tpl
yourModule_email_yourfunction_subject.tpl


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Is it possible to send HTML emails? I want to add a standard header and footer that goes on all emails

Yeah - you just need to make sure in your jrCore_send_email() function call you add a special "send_as_html" flag - i.e.


Hope this helps!


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I have the the flag to send_as_html. Still having 2 problems

1. sending a test email from the the Communication--> email support--> tools--> test email
The HTML does not get parsed. Is that by design? Is it just for testing delivery settings?

2. Is there a "Master" template I can modify that will modify the header/footer/syle of ALL email templates?

3. URL's not being displayed as links

e.g. in new follower notification :

{$follower_name} is now following you:

{$follower_profile_url}

is displayed as

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admin is now following you:

http://email.MYDOMAIN.com/c/ZD1mNThkMiZpPTIwMTUwMTA1MDgwOTMwLjg3NjMuNTAyNzMlNDBjbGVhcnRyYWNrcy5jb20maD1mMjNiNjM2NzE0MWM1YWUyYjE4MTM5OWI2YTUwNDVhNiZsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZGV2LmNsZWFydHJhY2tzLmNvbSUyRmFkbWluJnI9bGFiZWw1JTQwZGV2LmNsZWFydHJhY2tzLmNvbQ
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I just want it to show up as:

Admin is now following you. (admin being a link)
updated by @dannya: 01/05/15 12:25:32AM

1) Yes - the "test email" function just sends a plain text email (it is designed to test delivery)

2) yes - the jrUser/templates/email_preferences_footer.tpl is applied to all emails. There is no overall header template.

3) You have to write them as HTML and send as HTML for that to work (i.e. you want text to be clickable that points to a URL).


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So for #3, I can just insert any JRFunction and it will insert it into the HTML. (I'm sure this was obvious but I had no idea the email templates worked that way). So what i want is:
Correct?

I'm surprised all the email templates aren't HTML (with failover to text) by default. Isn't html the default format of email for the past 20 years or so? Am I doing something wrong here?

Sort of - the variables available inside are going to change a bit depending on the email template, but yeah - that's correct.


I don't believe so at all - "transactional" emails (i.e. validation, forgot email, short notifications, etc.) in my opinion should be text, but other types of email (say a newsletter, etc.) can be HTML/text. That is sort of the industry "standard" for SAAS, which is why we've set it up that way.

One thing we can add that might help though is to set it up so if HTML is detected in the message it sends it as HTML, otherwise text - that keeps you from having to worry about the send_as_html flag. I thought about that when looking at for my first response, so will try to get that in.

Hope this helps!


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updated by @brian: 01/05/15 01:18:20PM

I think that's the core of my issue. When i was sending the default emails, and Mailchimp re-writes the links with their own (extremely long)unique url, the notification looks like a mess. One of the things I'm trying to do is simply hide the url of the link.

Beyond that, it would be nice to be able to include some basic Header (logo), footer (links and disclaimers), and some basic inline css (style, theme(skin) colors). It seems like html/txt would be the better option.

You can do that - the email templates are smarty templates, so you can make yourself a custom email_header.tpl file and use jrCore_include to include it - i.e.

{jrCore_include module="CustomModule" template="email_header.tpl"}


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updated by @brian: 01/05/15 02:14:11PM