Email Templates – How to Get Custom Variable into an Email Template

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We currently use a plugin for gaining points when ordering items.

I want to display the users points balance inside various emails, now the plugin company gave me the code to echo out the current users balance however I am having a hard time figuring out where I can put this so that the variable will be available for me to use in my email templates.

$pointsBalance = Mage::getModel('rewards/customer')->load($customerId)->getUsablePoints();
echo $pointsBalance[1];

Can anyone advise me how I get a PHP variable like this in the right place so I can use it in my email templates like {{points.balance}}?

Best Answer

There's a simple way you can do this. Creating a custom variable for the email can be too much time consuming, so the easiest way to get this result would be using a .phtml file on your transnational email.

Add this to your email HTML:

{{block type='core/template' area='frontend' template='email/custom/mynote.phtml' order=$order}}

Create a file path/to/magento/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/email/custom/mynote.phtml

Now in this file you could do something like this:

   $pointsBalance = Mage::getModel('rewards/customer')->load($customerId)->getUsablePoints();
 echo $pointsBalance[1];

Done :)

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Magento 1.7 – Using Store Email Address and Logo in Email Templates

For logo:

There is an email var for that:

{{skin url="images/logo_email.gif" _area='frontend'}}

To make it your own, upload and replace logo_email.gif

For email variables:

Some of these exist by default:

General Store Email address:

{{config path="trans_email/ident_general/email"}}

Store Name:

{{config path="general/store_information/name"}}

Store Code is trickier. This is not exposed in the config to my knowledge for use by the email templates. I suggest using a custom template file, and refer this way:

{{block type="core/template" template="custom/storecode.phtml"}}

storecode.phtml:

<?php

echo Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode();

Alternatively, and maybe less-desirable, are Custom Variables.

Custom Variables

System > Custom Variable > Add New Variable

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To Implement a custom variable into a Transactional Email, do the following: In the Admin Panel, select System > Transactional Emails Click the row of predefined template to edit or click [Add New Template] button to create a new one. Create a new transactional email first if needed. In the Template Content field, select a location for your custom variable. Click [ Insert Variable ] and select the Custom Variable you would like to insert.

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Magento 1 – Using If/Else in Transaction Emails

This is exactly the purpose of {{depend}} and {{if}}. The only difference between them is that {{if}} supports an {{else}} statement.
{{depend}} is just as an {{if}} without an {{else}}.
To see how they work refer to Varien_Filter_Template::dependDirective() and Varien_Filter_Template::ifDirective().

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