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Hi there,

I've created hooks to add in some membership data to the tokens that are available in mass emails.  This all seems to be working fine, and in fact the test email is coming out with the values in the appropriate locations in the email.  However when I send the actual email, there seems to be a problem and all the tokens defined in the hook are blank.  Can anyone point me in the right direction for fixing this as I don't seem to have found an answer in my searching

Thanks

Hi,

Done a little more testing as recommended and test mail is working fine to a group or an individual but not the real mailing.  I've also just run a test where the user/pass in the cron is the same as the user I'm usually logged in as and that still didn't work.  There's no apparent difference whether I run as a cron job or directly in http.

Any other ideas gratefully received

Cheers

we discussed this problem, but forgot to update the forum topic. sorry about that.

here's the issue: the civimail cronjob is an standalone bin script that executes outside of drupal. As such it is unaware of all the other modules currently active. It does fire the token hook, BUT the module list is empty and hence no replacement is done

The solution to this is to bootstrap drupal in the civimail cronjob script (if it is the CMS that CiviCRM is operating under). Similar to the way we do it in the installer, we can reuse some of the below code:

                $cmsPath = 'Need to figure out how to get this path';
                chdir( $cmsPath );
                include_once "./includes/bootstrap.inc";
                drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

CiviCRM does not have the exact location where drupal is stored, so we'll need to address that issue. If you are using drupal multi-site, i suspect the above might get a wee bit more complicated (or not?)

if you can experiment with the above code and see what works for you that would be great. please update the forums once u've done so

thanx

lobo

would be great if you could package the below as a patch and make detection of the drupal "codebase" automatic. I think the code in conf_init will help a fair amount with that

if you do so, please file an issue along with a patch. this will be great and highly appreciated

thanx

lobo