Changing Email Template in Prestashop

Hello Friends,

I have been lately working on my website http://www.assamesebooks.com which is build on the wonderful open source cart Prestashop v1.6

Case Study
This post is a tutorial on how to change template of the notification emails that are sent from the application. I would be taking the New Order Notification email (new_order)  for the merchant as an example for customization. The missing thing in this notification email is that it does not contain the ORDER STATUS as part of it. Hence, in case an user tried to place an order and decides to cancel it in the payment gateway page; the order gets placed with status as "Payment Error". The notification email says that an order is placed but there is no way to know if the order was successfully placed or not.

Solution

1. There are various variables that are used in the email template to print the order details. These variable are populated and sent from various PHP files. In this case it is done through the following file i.e. /classes/PaymentModule.php
2. Unfortunately, this file doesnt pass the order status to the email template. However, the file does have the order status variable declared in it. So all I had to do is pass this variable as well to the list of parameters being passed to the email template. 
   
   You can see the $order_status variable already declared
   
   
   So, all I had to do is pass this variable to the list being sent to email template
   
3. Once, this is done we need to update the email template with this variable. The email templates in Prestashop can be access from Localization -> Translations -> email templates -> email module -> new_order menu in Prestashop Admin 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. All you have to do is select to edit the template as HTML / Text and add following to print Order status i.e. Order Status: {order_status} order_status is the variable that I set in the PHP to pass the status value 
   
   
   
   
5. Now when a new order alert mail comes to your mail box; you can see the order status as well in it 
   
   
   
   That's all... Keep coding.. :-)