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Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
January 27, 2010, 10:25:16 am
I am attempting to modify the default mail template.  I made one modification, using the "insert tokens" feature (very nice by the way).  I simply inserted {contact.first_name}.

When I process the registration, the user is given an error:
Code: [Select]
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/.../public_html/sites/.../files/civicrm/templates_c/en_US/en_US/%%B5/B5B/B5B0F3E7%%if%7D.php on line 1618
When I check the logs, I get over 20 of the same Smarty error:
Code: [Select]
Smarty error: [in string:{if $event.confirm_email_text AND... (the whole template code)... {foreach from=$value item=v key=n} {$n}: {$v} {/foreach} {/foreach} {/if} line 110]: syntax error: unrecognized tag '' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 590) in /home/.../public_html/sites/..../modules/civicrm/packages/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1093.
I have tried this with "{contact.first_name}" and "{$contact.first_name}".  Same errors generated.

When this happens, the user IS registered, but the email fails in a rather spectacular way.  I only want to add the registrants first and last name to all receipt emails.

P.s.  This is on civi 3.1.beta6
Thanks,
Maria

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
January 27, 2010, 11:13:18 am

if i had to guess we are not doing "civicrm token" substitution in the message templates (hence the error)

smarty is however doing the smarty token substition, so if you can find and use the smarty tokens that would be a workaround for now

i suspect we will not be introducing "civicrm tokens" to those templates in the 3.1 release. we'll probably work on suppressing the insert tokens if we display it in the editor for the message templates

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
January 27, 2010, 11:14:51 am
no problem trying a workaround...can you direct me to a smarty tokens list?  Something I can muddle through?

thanks
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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
January 27, 2010, 11:20:42 am
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no problem trying a workaround...can you direct me to a smarty tokens list?  Something I can muddle through?
Check http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Debugging

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
January 27, 2010, 01:13:42 pm
Hm.  I enabled the debug, but no clear variables for name, first name, display name are evident.  Or rather, i can see some of them, but if I put them in the template it pops out an error. 

Unless someone simply knows the variable for the contact's display name (which is not actually called in the form itself), I can put it in the form and then it will appear in the email.  Just hoping to have less fields on the form. Not a big deal. 

Though when this IS decided, I would like to utilize civicrm tokens in emails.  So +1 for the feature.

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 03, 2010, 02:24:42 am
Quote from: mariagwyn on January 27, 2010, 10:25:16 am
I am attempting to modify the default mail template.  I made one modification, using the "insert tokens" feature (very nice by the way).  I simply inserted {contact.first_name}.

When I process the registration, the user is given an error:
Code: [Select]
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/.../public_html/sites/.../files/civicrm/templates_c/en_US/en_US/%%B5/B5B/B5B0F3E7%%if%7D.php on line 1618

I believe we fixed this error in CiviCRM 3.1.1 (if you look into the page’s source, you’ll see that the error is really about " being escaped to " or & being escaped to &).
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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 03, 2010, 09:51:03 am
I am receiving the error in civicrm 3.1.1.  At first, I did assume it was because of a stray " but I could not get the syntax correct.  So, perhaps you can help.  If I want to add a row in the table that will include a first and last name, or a display name, I add WHAT exactly:

Code: [Select]
<tr><td>
???????
</td></tr>

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 03, 2010, 10:41:33 pm
Quote from: mariagwyn on February 03, 2010, 09:51:03 am
If I want to add a row in the table that will include a first and last name, or a display name, I add WHAT exactly:

Code: [Select]
<tr><td>
???????
</td></tr>

The below should work:

Code: [Select]
<tr><td>
{contact.first_name} {contact.last_name}
</td></tr>

(But from your report above I assume it doesn’t – if I’m right, can you verify on our demo server?)
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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 04, 2010, 09:27:56 am
I can't test correctly on demo since it isn't sending out emails.  On my site, the contribution returns the error on the final contribution click when it tries to send out the email receipt.  Since this process isn't run on the demo site, I can't finish the test.

However, this is exactly the format I used on my site.

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 04, 2010, 11:13:29 am

demo does send out emails. it sends them to /dev/null. so if there is an error with the email sending, it will replicate on demo also

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 04, 2010, 01:01:35 pm
When I post a contribution, I receive this error: : 10002:Security error Security header is not valid

I assumed this meant that emails were not sent.  I set my own email as a 'CC' on the form, but have not received the email.  The error on my site only occurs when the email is processed, at least I assume that is when.

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Re: Revised Mail Template: Smarty Error/Parse Error
February 15, 2010, 04:35:17 am
Hm. I just checked and on a fresh CiviCRM 3.1 install changing the ‘Contributions - Receipt (off-line)’ message template does work. Can you try reverting it to default and changing?

(I added ‘{contact.first_name} {contact.last_name}’ after the ‘Thanks for your support’ text and it got populated with my contact’s first and last name in the email.)
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