If I create a email template in System > Transactions Email
what xml layout is used?
What is the block type here?
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If I create a email template in System > Transactions Email
what xml layout is used?
What is the block type here?
Best Answer
This questions is actually a bit too broad but I'd like to give some insights on that:
When you create a transaction e-mail template via the adminhtml section, the content of the corresponding mail template from app/locale/[language_country]/template/email/[filename].html is copied to the database.
As an example for the "New account" e-mail, the declaration can be found in
app/code/core/Mage/Customer/etc/config.xml
:If the e-mail is being sent, the HTML-template is parsed and the variable and block directives (
{{store url=""}}
,{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}}
from the order_new.html template,...) are then replaced by their corresponding blocks defined in the XML-files.<sales_email_order_items>
can be found in app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/sales.xml where also the block type (<block type="sales/order_email_items" ...>
in this case) is defined.The mail classes of Magento responsible for e-mail sending are
Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template
andMage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter
.