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Hans.S

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Today's date in an email template token
February 07, 2011, 12:07:26 pm
How do you insert today's date (at the time of online application} into an automatic email receipt/invoice template?

{$receive_date} only works when payment is received - for an receipt but an invoice should have a date also.

Am I making sense? ???
« Last Edit: February 07, 2011, 12:30:34 pm by Hans.S »

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Re: Today's date in an email template
February 07, 2011, 12:12:16 pm

check:

http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/language.modifier.date.format.tpl

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Re: Today's date in an email template
February 07, 2011, 12:29:57 pm
Thanks for you quick reply.

So I put {$smarty.now|date_format} in the template and it generated today's date.

There are also options to format the date in different ways.

Again thanks so much, it was very helpfull.
« Last Edit: February 07, 2011, 12:40:58 pm by Hans.S »

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Re: Today's date in an email template token
July 27, 2011, 05:24:44 am
Searching through the forums led me to this old thread which deals with my issue.
I'm trying to put today's date into my mail template.
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So I put {$smarty.now|date_format} in the template and it generated today's date.

I tried this and unfortunately it doesn't work for me.

Various places stipulate that I should check that the line
Code: [Select]
define( 'CIVICRM_MAIL_SMARTY', 1 ); is in my civicrm.settings.php file.

My settings file already has
Code: [Select]
define( 'CIVICRM_CIVIMAIL_SMARTY', 1 ); If I change that to "CIVICRM_MAIL_SMARTY", the preview screen is completely blank.

Does anyone have any suggestions of where to look next?


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