Email templates and formatting

judgej

I'm sure it has been asked many times, but I cannot find anything in the search post 2006...

Is there a way to provide custom formatting for emails that are sent out to users? The client would like to change the text of most of the emails to be a "bit more friendly" and also make it more obvious who the email has come from (better title, introductory text, footer, even HTML to that a logo can be linked to).

I just can't seem to see where this would be done.

judgej

Okay, I have found (searched for "have a nice day"!) the content of some of the emails in the definitions file, so I can provide alternatives to the message body in a translation file.

Now, a wrapper - any way outgoing emails can be wrapped in a HTML wrapper so that common footers etc. can be added?

Linc

I just use FetchView:

               $MessageBody = $this->FetchView('emailtemplate');
               $Email = new Gdn_Email();
               $Email->To($ContactEmail)
                     ->Subject('Title of email')
                     ->Message($MessageBody)
                     ->MimeType('text/html')
                     ->Send();

judgej

That's handy for custom code (plugins) and a good one to remember. I was just wondering whether there are any views used to send the standard default emails? Or perhaps I need to create a plugin that replaces the built-in email functions with something like this via hooks (and if there are no such hooks, then it would be nice to have some;-)

Linc

I don't know much about the built-in emails, but if you find you need a hook just give a yell.

heykatieben

+1 for a way to customize standard default emails. Has anyone found a way to do this?

x00

search for email locale
http://vanillaforums.org/search?adv=&search=email+locale

peregrine

If you are using vanilla 2.1 - this is a pretty cool add-on

CustomizeText

you can search for words and make changes and it automatically updates locale.php

guillermofr

i just uploaded an addon to make own template for default vanilla mails

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/emailtemplate-plugin

it is very simply but you can extend it

phreak

@guillermofr: Very cool!

AaronWebstey

hey @peregrine‌ , did the CustomizeText plugin disappear? I can't seem to find it.

peregrine

@AaronWebstey said: hey @peregrine‌ , did the CustomizeText plugin disappear? I can't seem to find it.

it is still there. It's tricky to find.

I just typed "CustomizeText" in the search box here in discussions forum. and the links in the search showed it was available on github.

there are a number of addons you may not be aware of that reside in addons github and possibly nowhere else.
they may work for you, they are not advertised.

https://github.com/vanilla/addons

https://github.com/vanilla/addons/tree/2.1

https://github.com/vanilla/addons/tree/master/plugins/CustomizeText

you need to download the entire zip of the addons and extract out the plugin you want.

personally, I would try the master branch of addons first, and if that doesn't work try the 2.1 branch of the addon.

they may work for you, they may not.

AaronWebstey

@peregrine‌ Oh, duh! I should have tried discussions ... was only searching addons. On your previous recommendation, I always check the master for plugins first - but this time just asked before I even checked there! Oops

Thanks YAP!