Tokens and Smarty templates

[werner]

Hi,

I somehow don't get the right code for a mail template. I want to create a different mail greeting depending on the gender of the person. So I tried the following code (german CiviCRM):

{if {contact.gender} == 'Weiblich' }Sehr geehrte Frau {elseif {contact.gender} == 'Männlich' }Sehr geehrter Herr {/if} {contact.first_name} {contact.last_name}

But all I get is a white screen .. I tried different things like ${contact.gender} but nothing really works. Any clue would be awesome

thanks werner

[theMusician]

Hi Werner,

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/Smarty+in+mail+templates

This has an example of using a conditional with Smarty. Let us know if you are still running into problems.

[fuerst]

Access to the current contacts data is possible using the {$contact} array. It has the following structure:

$contact = array(
            contactId => array(contact data...)
           );

In CiviCRM 3.3 the template variable $contactId was available so it was possible to write a simple condition like this:

{if $contact.$contactId.gender_id == 1}Liebe{else}Lieber{/if}

In CiviCRM 3.4/4.0 $contactId seems to be gone. To get the contact data an additional loop is necessary:

{foreach from=$contact item=data}
  {if $data.gender_id == 1}Liebe{else}Lieber{/if}
{/foreach}


To see all available contact data elements you may print it out to the email/letter using {$contact|@debug_print_var}

Anyone know a better way to get the contact data in CiviCRM 3.4/4.0?

PS: Was not able to use the CODE-tag of that Forum because it produced the error message "Sorry, you are not allowed to post external links." when trying to post the posting.

[fuerst]

In addition to my comment above: The complete $contact array is available only when creating PDF letters. When sending an email the $contact array does contain a subset only. gender_id or gender is missing.

I also encountered when creating a PDF letter: Once you use a CiviCRM token the complete Smarty code will not be executed even it is still included in the compiled Smarty template.