store admin emails

[Guest]

Hi

 

I got asked a good question just now, is it possible to store emails sent from the admin area somehow, I am using 2.3.1

 

Kind regards

 

Ian

[♥Monika in Germany]

sure ... save them in a new table in your database. you can then get the info from the database directly if you need to look up something or create a nice frontend for it similar to the newsletter manager tool ....

[Guest]

Hi Monika

 

Thank you for the reply, would you be able to help me and guide me through setting up a new database table and them getting the info from the database table to display in the admin area

 

Sorry only as not as confident to do it by myself

[Guest]

Hi Monika

 

I think I have found another way of doing it rather than storing the emails, I have done it this way and hopefully will work

 

I added the following to admin/mail.php

 

# simple mod to send CC
	 $mimemessage->send('Your Name Here', 'address_where_you_want_it_to_go', '', $from, $subject);

 

I found it in another post here - http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/topic/192419-save-copy-of-sent-email/

[♥Monika in Germany]

sure - that's another solution to keep the information, it just will not be listed with your customer in admin... definitely faster though!

[Guest]

would of been good to keep it in the admin area but not 100% on how to create the database and the coding to do that

[♥geoffreywalton]

Ian

 

Here is a guide as to what you need to do, as you can see it is a few hours work.

 

Create table using phpmyadmin, needs at least 3 fields

email_id (auto increment)

customer_id

Email_text

 

maybe 2 more

 

sent_to

copied to

 

Add an entry in /admin/includes/datbase_tables.php

 

Add a line to each script/php file that writes an email that insert a record containing the data

 

Write a script to enable emails sent to be displayed and link it to customers page in admin.

 

Cheers

 

G