Add customer last name near top of conf e-mail

[knifeman]

I know there are tons of threads on this subject, but i just cannot get it right.

 

I want to add my customer name right above the STORE NAME in the confirmation e-mail. Preferably first and last name. I am making my attempts with just the last name right now. My first few tries gave fatal errors. After much searching, I came up with this:

// lets start with the email confirmation
 $email_order .= tep_db_output($order->customer['lastname']) . "\n\n";
 $email_order = STORE_NAME . "\n" .
			 EMAIL_SEPARATOR . "\n" .

No error with this, but no text either. Can someone please show me how this should be done?

 

Tim

[multimixer]

Try this

// lets start with the email confirmation
 $email_order = 'Any text you want to add' .  tep_db_output($order->customer['lastname']) . "\n\n";
 $email_order .= STORE_NAME . "\n" .

[knifeman]

Thanks George,

 

I will try it. I have this working, but it is lower than i originally wanted.

// lets start with the email confirmation
 $email_order = STORE_NAME . "\n" .
			 EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER . ' ' . $insert_id . "\n" .
			 EMAIL_TEXT_DATE_ORDERED . ' ' . strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG) . "\n\n";
$email_order .= tep_db_output($order->customer['lastname']) . "\n\n";
 if ($order->info['comments']) {

[multimixer]

The issue is the "." (dot) before the "="

 

Example

 

$kuku = 'hello';

$kuku = 'world';

 

echo $kuku ; gives hello

 

 

$kuku = 'hello';

$kuku .= 'world';

 

echo $kuku ; gives hello world

[knifeman]

I understand it now. Thanks!

 

Tim

[forummaker]

Same question... but I'm using 2.2

Here is where I would like to add the customers first name with the email order update

$email = 'CUSTOMERS FIRST NAME HERE' . "\n" . EMAIL_SEPARATOR . "\n" . EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER . ' ' . $oID . "\n" . EMAIL_TEXT_INVOICE_URL . ' ' . tep_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_CATALOG_ACCOUNT_HISTORY_INFO, 'order_id=' . $oID, 'SSL') . "\n" . EMAIL_TEXT_DATE_ORDERED . ' ' . tep_date_long($check_status['date_purchased']) . "\n\n" . $notify_comments . sprintf(EMAIL_TEXT_STATUS_UPDATE, $orders_status_array[$status]);

This is from my admin/orders.php

Any help would be greatly appreciated... as I've been trying different combinations of code to pull the customers first name from... with no avail.

Thanks.