Adding another field to order confirmation email

[Guest]

Hi there

 

I recently installed a contribution to the checkout process which lets a customer pick a delivery date.

 

This delivery date, along with all the other order details, gets sent to the store owner's admin area.

 

I was wondering how I'd add this delivery date to the email the customer gets when they've placed a successful order. As they have no reference for this once the orders gone through.

 

I assume its a case of pulling the date in, just like all the other fields get pulled into the email. I'm hopeful it can be done.

 

But as a bit of a novice i'm not sure how many files i'd need to edit - would it be just checkout_process?

 

Any info would be great.

[♥Monika in Germany]

Hi there

 

I recently installed a contribution to the checkout process which lets a customer pick a delivery date.

 

This delivery date, along with all the other order details, gets sent to the store owner's admin area.

 

I was wondering how I'd add this delivery date to the email the customer gets when they've placed a successful order. As they have no reference for this once the orders gone through.

 

I assume its a case of pulling the date in, just like all the other fields get pulled into the email. I'm hopeful it can be done.

 

But as a bit of a novice i'm not sure how many files i'd need to edit - would it be just checkout_process?

 

Any info would be great.

 

 

Hi,

 

most probably you'd only need to edit checkout process. It depends on how you are saving the added info right now in the database.

[Guest]

Hi,

 

most probably you'd only need to edit checkout process. It depends on how you are saving the added info right now in the database.

 

The delivery date info is stored in a new field called shipdate within the orders table as a Varchar (10). So i need to ref. that somehow - but not sure what to do exactly in checkout_process.

 

Thanks

David

[♥Monika in Germany]

The delivery date info is stored in a new field called shipdate within the orders table as a Varchar (10). So i need to ref. that somehow - but not sure what to do exactly in checkout_process.

 

Thanks

David

 

how do you insert it into the shipping table? Have you added it to the order class?

 

Anyway, use the same call for it as when you are inserting it, we are still in the same file