Comments on: Pull Magento User Session Data into Wordpress

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:42:08 +0000

That is strange. On the 1.3 sites it should work with htmlescape: {{htmlescape var=$order.getCustomerName()}

Has the core been altered in the app/code/core/mage/customer dir? Did this stop functioning after the upgrade to 1.3.2.4? Are the other transaction emails pulling the customer name into the email?

Bret

By: Cheekius Geekus

Cheekius Geekus — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:04:21 +0000

Thank you for the reply, Bret!
Yes, that is correct. All of the other variables are being substituted correctly, but they do not have the htmlescape before the var=$whatever.variable

I removed the htmlescape, hoping that would fix the problem, and it prevented the {{code}} from showing up, but now there is no substitution at all (which is an improvement). I can change the “Dear” to “Hello” or something and it will at least make sense.

I am on v1.3.2.3
I believe the “upgrade” to 1.3.2.4 was just a change to one file which i did manually.
This is a SimpleScripts installation/upgrade on Bluehost. I tried to SimpleScripts upgrade to 1.4 but that didn’t go so well (i now know that a lot of template changes are required to work with 1.4). So I’m just staying at 1.3.2.3/4 at the moment.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:22:36 +0000

Hi there. I doubt the multi store configuration has anything to do with it. To clarify, “Dear {{htmlescape var=$customer.name}}” is what you are seeing printed out in the transactional email that is being sent? What version of Magento?

Bret

By: Cheekius Geekus

Cheekius Geekus — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:46:22 +0000

Hey there, Bret! Thanks for sharing your knowledge here.
I have to admit that I’m pretty amazed that you can grab session variables for another application, when I can’t even get Magento to use them in its emails!

Any idea what the problem could be when my emails say (for example):
“Dear {{htmlescape var=$customer.name}}”

I’m running two stores under one Magento installation. Any idea where I have gone wrong?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:28:22 +0000

Hey BD, thanks for posting that code and glad you got it figured out! I suppose I should get some code formatting going on these comments

Cheers,
b

By: BD

BD — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:47:39 +0000

er, sorry – your comments ate my pre tag and thus formatted the echo all wrong.

By: BD

BD — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:46:06 +0000

Thanks for getting back to me. After a bunch of var_dumps, this is the solution I came up with:

$categories = Mage::helper(‘catalog/category’)->getStoreCategories();

foreach ($categories as $category){
$cat_url = $category->getUrlKey();
$cat_name = $category->getName();

echo ‘‘.$cat_name.’‘;
}

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:14:27 +0000

Hey BD,

I will post a short article on how to do this in the next few days – hang tight.

Bret

By: BD

BD — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:21:15 +0000

I’m going to give this a try, too. Do you know how I can load the “topMenu” (product categories) into this data.php so I can pull the category navigation li’s into wordpress?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:11:55 +0000

Let me know how it goes!

Bret