Test email not picking up htmlmail.tpl.php

Did you select HTMLMailSystem in admin/settings/mailsystem ?

Update to 6.x-2.17 (just released) and check the debug checkbox and send another test mail.

The debug info should include your theme path. See if it is correct.

Bumping version -- 6.x-2.17 has improved debug info in the template file and also in the module settings page.

In the template file, the code that produces the output in #5 is:

Copy the
<a href="http://drupalcode.org/project/htmlmail.git/blob/refs/heads/6.x-2.x:/html..."><code>html.tpl.php</code></a>
file to the
<u><code><?php echo realpath(drupal_get_path('theme', $theme)); ?></code></u>
directory of your <u><?php echo ucfirst($theme) ?></u> theme.

So then, drupal_get_path('theme', 'alhambra') is returning 'sites/all/modules/htmlmail'?

Either your drupal is very broken or you aren't really using the template that you linked to above.

EDIT: I figured it out.

Your "alhambra" theme isn't enabled.

So drupal_get_path('theme', 'alhambra') is returning NULL or a blank string.

And realpath('') returns the current directory.

Okay, I will work on better debug info in a future version.

Thanks for the feedback.

Meanwhile, you need to enable your theme.

Release 6.x-2.18 should detect a non-enabled theme (one that drupal_get_path('theme', $theme) returns an empty string)

You're still using the old template file. Please search through your drupal installation for htmlmail-*.tpl.php files. The output that you are quoting above could not have come from the 6.x-2.18 version.

@#11 -- that's an old bug unrelated to HTML Mail. Do you have Mime Mail installed?

Gotcha. Bug in the htmlmail-htmlmail.tpl.php file.

diff --git a/htmlmail-htmlmail.tpl.php b/htmlmail-htmlmail.tpl.php
index d2b64f1..56ebea4 100644
--- a/htmlmail-htmlmail.tpl.php
+++ b/htmlmail-htmlmail.tpl.php
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
     To customize this test message:
   </p></dt><dd><ol><li><p>
     Copy
-    <a href="http://drupalcode.org/project/htmlmail.git/blob/refs/heads/6.x-2.x:/htmlmail-htmlmail
-    to the <u><code><?php echo realpath($directory); ?></code></u>
+    <a href="http://drupalcode.org/project/htmlmail.git/blob/refs/heads/6.x-2.x:/htmlmail-htmlmail
+    to the <u><code><?php echo $theme_path; ?></code></u>
     directory of your <q><?php echo ucfirst($theme) ?> theme</q>.
   </p></li></ul></p></li><li><p>
     Edit your copy of the <u><code>htmlmail-htmlmail.tpl.php</code></u> file.

Corrected one attached and fixed in -dev.

Released 6.x-2.20.

Tim, thank you very much for your patience in this matter. I am going to install a local copy of a custom theme and test accordingly.

Well, I definitely duplicated the problem...

Well, I figured out half the problem.

The change I made to the 7.x-2.x branch that auto-detects template files somehow got dropped when I updated the 6.x-2.x branch.

I've fixed that bit but I'm still getting a blank email body just like you reported.

So... Still needs work.

Turns out that file_scan_directory() doesn't work like I thought it did. Still troubleshooting...

Got it fixed; just need to remove all my debugging lines and roll another release.

6.x is done -- syncing changes with 7.x now.

All fixed -- testing one more time to be sure before rolling a new release.

Fixed in 6.x-2.21 release.

Hi All,

i encounter a similar problem: htmlmail-simplenews.tpl.php is only picked up from the module directory, not the theme directory. I just upgraded to 2.21, same results. Theme is activated!

The Debug information provides for the right directory / and i followed those instructions. Put i can only achieve the required result by copying the template into the module directory..

1. For general Simplenews message customization, copy
sites/URL/modules/htmlmail/htmlmail-simplenews.tpl.php

to
sites/URL/themes/saledn/htmlmail-simplenews.tpl.php

I am running AEGIR as well...

Thanks for this wonderful initiative! This module really helped us a lot already!

regards
Christian

just changing status...

Okay, you have to copy both htmlmail.tpl.php and htmlmail-simplenews.tpl.php to the theme directory.

I'll roll a new release shortly that documents that little gotcha.

Fixed in 6.x-2.22 release.

Version bump. 6.x-2.22 has a typo in all the templates.

@TimG1 -- So let me get this straight:

• You are getting the debugging info included in your test mails.
• You are not getting any message body included in your test mails.

If that's true, try replacing your htmlmail.module file with this one. The only difference is a pair of watchdog() statements added to template_preprocess_htmlmail().

Send your test messages again, then look at your admin/reports/dblog Log entries.

If you see anything of Type "htmlmail" please post it somewhere I can find it. Cut-and-paste; no screenshots, please.

Thanks.

Bob Vincent (a.k.a. pillarsdotnet)

In the new version I have added a sample template file called htmlmail-user-password-reset.tpl.php. You need to copy that file to your theme directory, or create another template file with the same name. If you don't have a htmlmail-user-password-reset.tpl.php file in your custom theme directory, the one in the htmlmail module directory will be used.

I'm calling this issue fixed; please re-open if you still have problems. Remember to clear cache every time you create, copy, or rename a .tpl.php file.

after reading your comment #31, i finally got it working.
I think it is still not documented. In your readme.txt is stated:

 * the possible template file names would be:
 *  1. htmlmail-example-module-outgoing-message.tpl.php
 *  2. htmlmail-example-module.tpl.php
 *  3. htmlmail.tpl.php

That is actually not correct as far as I can tell

So wait, can you not just copy htmlmail.tpl.php to your theme and use it that way? You have to specify all the $module names in the filename? The readme says you can use htmlmail.tpl.php but I can't get it to use it. It will only use htmlmail--htmlmail.tpl.php for test emails, --webform for Webform, etc. I'd have to duplicate that TPL for every module using hook_mail and I don't want to have to do that.

I have everything configured as per the Readme. The test email will ONLY render the email with htmlmail--htmlmail.tpl.php- but it should be using htmlmail.tpl.php, renaming it makes it use the default in the htmlmail module folder.

So, we've followed the instructions pretty thoroughly and put html.tpl.php inside our active theme and configured the modules to the way they should be to use HTML formatted emails and the email theme.

However htmlmail.tpl.php is not being used whatsoever, and the debugging information is suggesting to use -$key instead of the default template.

This is how we did it on a D6 site that worked perfectly. Having issue with Drupal 7.

The only email related modules I have enabled are:

• Html Mail
• Mailsystem
• Emogrifier
• Pathologic
• MailEditor

I just disabled MailEditor. Looking...

Seems like MailEditor conflicts with this. Disabling and uninstalling returned control of the theme to htmlmail.tpl.php. Why are these two not getting along?

Maybe this is helpful. To get this to work I deleted all .tpl.php files from the module directory except htmlmail.tpl.php.

Afterwards the mail templates where grabbed from the theme.

(answer about Drupal 7 problem)

You cannot override the template in normal way. In addition to creating the template in your theme, you have to select the theme in htmlmail configurations.

htmlmail has hard-wired "theme path" of all its templates in hook_theme. It requires you to select your email theme in htmlmail settings. If you don't select any theme, and by default, it will ONLY use the template file in the module folder.

Thank you for sharing your research, yookoala.

Is there a way to make this less of a nuisance without breaking existing functionality?

@salvis

htmlmail is overriding "theme path" variable in hook_theme() with `htmlmail_get_selected_theme()` result even when no theme is selected.

I did not have time to test, but I think a possible solution is to:

1. Remove these lines in hook_theme:

  else {
    $theme_path = $module_path;
  }

2. Change these lines in hook_theme:

    $items[$suggestion] = array(
      'variables' => array('message' => array()),
      'template' => $template,
      'path' => $path,
      'theme path' => $theme_path,
    );

into these:

    $items[$suggestion] = array(
      'variables' => array('message' => array()),
      'template' => $template,
      'path' => $path,
    );
    if (isset($theme_path)) $items[$suggestion]['theme path'] = $theme_path;

D8.x, for the reference:

1. Copy ./modules/contrib/htmlmail/templates/htmlmail.html.twig into themes/custom/YOURTHEME/templates/htmlmail--htmlmail.html.twig
2. drush twigc
3. drush cr