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Fabien Serny
Fabien Serny
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Fabien Serny is a former core developer at PrestaShop. He has 10 years of experience in web development and e-commerce. He has worked for several big e-commerce companies in France, and then created his own company named 23Prod in late 2010. In 2014, along with two other former core developers from PrestaShop, he launched Froggy Commerce, a platform that sells simple and powerful modules for PrestaShop based on the needs of e-tailers. You can visit his websites http://www.23prod.com and http://www.froggy-commerce.com.
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Associating an e-mail with an order state


First, we will create the e-mail templates. Create a mails directory in the views/templates/ directory of your module. Then, create a subdirectory for each language, in our case, only English. At the end, you should have this directory: views/templates/mails/en/.

In this directory, create two template files: mymodpayment.txt and mymodpayment.html (there is no naming convention, so you can change it if you want to). In PrestaShop, for each e-mail, you always have to create two templates: one without HTML (txt file) and one with HTML (html file). PrestaShop sends the two templates as one. It permits you to have something displayable even when HTML is not enabled on an e-mail reader.

In PrestaShop, e-mail templates are not Smarty templates; you can't make condition or loop in it, but you can have dynamic variables. However, unlink Smarty, in this case, a variable is between { } but without beginning with $. For example, in mymodpayment.txt, we will have...

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Fabien Serny

Fabien Serny is a former core developer at PrestaShop. He has 10 years of experience in web development and e-commerce. He has worked for several big e-commerce companies in France, and then created his own company named 23Prod in late 2010. In 2014, along with two other former core developers from PrestaShop, he launched Froggy Commerce, a platform that sells simple and powerful modules for PrestaShop based on the needs of e-tailers. You can visit his websites http://www.23prod.com and http://www.froggy-commerce.com.
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