How to improve the Order Status update emails?

[cgchris99]

Has anyone created a contribution that provides more "professional" looking email update notifications?

 

I have purchased some sample items from my "competition" to see what kind of service they provide. The one has a very nice email notification for order confirmation and shipped status. It's all html based with their logo and clickable image maps, etc.

 

I can duplicate some of these features by hand but I thought maybe some has already created a contribution for this. Anyone ?

 

Thanks for any info

[Noobish-n-stuff]

Have you checked the mail.php? There is a line you need to change in the mime incoding you need to change it from add_text to add_html. you can find it by doing a search on the admin\mail.php file. Make sure you backup before making the change!

 

this will allow you to send html newsletters and such.

hopefully this helps point you in the right direction.

[cgchris99]

I found the line your talking about. But shouldn't this be changed do it picks up the mail configuration setting?

 

I have modified my orders.php to include the html code to properly create html emails.

 

Are you saying this is why I have had to do that?

 

Thanks

[Noobish-n-stuff]

yes, although what did seems to be just as effective.

 

i know that there are a couple of people working a html newsletter contrib. you might want to see how they are doing it. you might be able to modify it to your needs or atleast understand how the html email setup actually works.

[cgchris99]

I do have the HTML email working. However, the order confirmation email and process update emails are pretty poor.

 

Maybe I'm missing something but can the html newsletter provide dynamic fields for filling in the data?

 

Thanks for any info

[Noobish-n-stuff]

i don't see why not, a few queries and if...then statements and i would think it could be done.