I've seen a bunch of articles (mostly 3-5 years old) detailing various methods of getting the customer's first name into the order confirmation email but I just get either a blank, or unparsed PHP.
For example this:
<?php echo $this->__('Hello, %s', Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getFirstname()); ?>
Renders in the email like this:
__('Hello, %s', Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getFirstname()); ?>
Could somebody point me in the right direction? This is on Community Edition 1.7.
Thanks
[EDITED] You can't use PHP code in your email-templates directly. If you want to insert dynamic data into your email-templates, you have two possibilities:
a) In every transactional email you can access the methods of the model, which is in charge for the transactional email, it is: for mails dealing with orders, this is the order-Model, for mails dealing with newsletters, this is the newsletter-model and so on. You can access the methods with the syntax:
{{var model.method()}}
So, in your case, to access the customer's first name in an order confirmation email, you need to look for a suiting method in the order Model, which is getCustomerFirstname() .
Then you can call it, following the given syntax:
{{var order.getCustomerFirstname()}}
b) You can include dynamic data into your email-template by creating a custom phtml-template and including it into your email-template via the {{block}} directive (as pointed out by benmarks in the comment below)
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I want to configure segment.com properly on my site and use it to manage all other apps/tools. I already installed the segment javascript on my site and used it as the source. Now, I am pushing these to MixPanel, Facebook, Google Analytics, etc.
What code should I add if I want to track an event and/or identify a user?
For simplicity's sake, i have a landing page (site.com/landing-page) with a form. After a successful submission, it redirects to a thank you page (site.com/thank-you-page).
The default settings already track the page views, and are pushing that same event to the different tools (FB: PageView, MixPanel: Loaded a Page, etc).
But in this case, i want to track the event and capture the person's information. And i don't know what to code to add and where.
My research so far
According to this article:
The best way to track new users is in client-side javascript on the welcome page after they signup, below we’ll explain why.
So, based on that, I add the code to my thank you page. But where? Header like adding GA scripts? body tag? I can add it anywhere, but i don't know where.
Next is what code should I add?
The example from the same article above:
When a new visitor goes to their site that visitor is anonymous. As soon as the visitor connects their Facebook account, Rdio knows who they are and creates a user record.
As part of that new user record the person is assigned a userId. Let’s say the new userId is 12345. Rdio will then need to fire the following calls on the welcome page:
analytics.identify('12345',{ name:'Jake Peterson', email:'friends#segment.com'});
analytics.track('Account Created',{ authentication:'Facebook'})
This gives me two problems: track and identify.
Track Problem
I'll start with the track. Based on how I understood this, assuming the event name i want to be added is "Downloaded PDF" then I want to store the title of it as well. It should look like this, right?
<script>
analytics.track('Downloaded PDF', {
title: 'Awesome Title'
});
</script>
Am I correct to enclose them inside <script> tags?
The tracking of an event seems a bit easier to understand that the identify part. But would love to know if i got that part right.
Identify Problem
Here, i have two questions:
where does userId come from? Is it automatically generated? For example, inside my MixPanel account, i see them. Is that what i use?
How do i reference to the userId? or any of the other traits I want to track in my code?
Taking from the same example above:
analytics.identify('12345',{ name:'Jake Peterson', email:'friends#segment.com'});
If i add this exact code on my thank you page, every signup will be assigned those values: '12345', 'Jake Peterson', and 'friends#segment.com', right?
What code should I add to (1) assign them the right userId (2) and get the name and email traits from the form of the previous page.
Let's say i'm only collecting first name and email.
analytics.identify("userId"{ firstName:"firstName", email:"email"});
If I add this code to my thank you page, will it automatically assign the userId, firstName, email values of the form that was submitted? That's the part I don't understand. What code to add to dynamically push the correct data.
And i know i'm not even adding the Alias part for MixPanel yet, but i just want to understand this part and the rest (hopefully) will be easier to understand.
Json view of my paypal after payment is made
I am desperately trying to access the description which is under the transactions array but can't seem to find a way!
It's totally different if I want to access payment_method for instance all I do is this:
(By the way, I assigned this array to $method)
$method->payer->payment_method , but the same thing doesn't work if I want to access description. All I get is an error.
I'm using laravel 5.5, in case that makes a difference.
I'm doing this because I need to find a way to reference my product in the final page after the paypal payment has been made.
Looks like transactions in an array so if you would like the description of the first one that would look like this.
$method->transactions[0]->description
I'm trying to display the payment method in the email subject for new order emails in Magento. The reason being is so that our client can easily determine from the subject of emails send from Magento whether the order came via the payment gateway or Paypal Express.
I'm not entirely sure of the best way to achieve this, I would like to think there is already something available I could use for this.
{{var payment_html}}
returns the payment method block for email templates...
{{var paymentMethod}}
returns absolutely nothing in the email subject so unsure whether this is a depreciated variable now.
I suppose there is also the option of creating a custom attribute, calling it in a static block and then displaying this as a custom variable in the email templates but it seems a rather long winded approach just to purely get a text string of "via SagePay" or "via Paypal Express".
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
You actually don't need to perform any customization, this variable is already available in the template though the object chain. This chain is supported by Magento template and allows usage of getters of the object.
In this case you need to retrieve order's payment object, then retrieve its method instance and retrieve method title from method instance. It is very simple construction:
{{var order.getPayment().getMethodInstance().getTitle()}}
This should help you!
Method Mage_Sales_Model_Order::sendNewOrderEmail() is responsible for sending new ordr emails.
$paymentBlock = Mage::helper('payment')->getInfoBlock($this->getPayment())
->setIsSecureMode(true);
$paymentBlock->getMethod()->setStore($storeId);
$paymentBlockHtml = $paymentBlock->toHtml();
...
$mailer->setTemplateParams(array(
'order' => $this,
'billing' => $this->getBillingAddress(),
'payment_html' => $paymentBlockHtml
)
payment_html is rendered html output of the block, so you can not use it.
You can add one more assoc key (using rewite or local/mage trick) with the payment method and add this param to the subject using transactional emails.
Modifying a payment module I'm not having any success changing the "payment name" that is placed in table sales_flat_order_payment in field "method".
For example if payment is check, it is populated with checkmo.
I've tried changing
protected $_code = '.........'; in payment.php with no success.
I'm guessing this name may need changing in multiple places?
I have researched this but any answers I can find are assuming I have the skill level to know how to duplicate or modify the extension.
magento ver 1.4.1.1
more info; I'm using a Western Union payment extension as a Bpay payment extension and that field method is used to SMS payment type to me (and it would be more elegant it said what it really was!)
It's better to have a separate payment method for this. You can duplicate some existing method, and use your custom name.
Create a new payment module by duplicate one of your other payment module that closest matches what you are trying to do.
If you are trying to create a payment module for check then take a look at create a new payment method
Is it possible to show the order details of last processed order, such as
Item Sku Qty Subtotal
in a separate page?
I tried adding the order details section from frontend/base/default/template/email/order/items/order/default.phtml in a separate cms page, by adding {{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}} to it.
But, when I run this cms page after order being placed, it shows the following error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getAllItems() on a non-object in D:\wamp\www\magento\app\design\frontend\base\default\template\email\order\items.phtml
Is this actually possible?
This is possible.. its already present in the magento system, when user places an order successfully they are shown with order number and a link to order details page.
the link to order page is like http://www.example.com/sales/order/view/order_id/25/
we can make system to be redirected directly to this page to accomplish this task.
the only this we needed is the order id this can be get using
Mage::getSingleton("checkout/session")->getLastOrderId();
Yes, most things are possible. You'd have to write your own module, with your own controller which would serve up your own template. There you can load up an order and display whatever you want.
Obviously, that isn't the answer you are hoping for, but your question isn't specific, and writing out how to accomplish what you want could easily take an entire blog article.