Author Topic: Smarty Date - Where do I put it? (Read 855 times)

nessnzoe · July 07, 2011, 11:56:06 am

Hi all,

I'm looking to include a date for our clients in the email message templates. I've read this thread -- http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=18494.0 -- but am not clear WHERE I add this code. I'm not a PHP programmer, so I was hoping that I could include this in the message template (i.e., via Mailings -> Message Templates - Add Message Template). I tested that theory by putting

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{$smarty.now|date_format}
in an email via my own contact record and, sadly, what I saw was: "{$smarty.now|date_format}"

Can I include this code directly in the plain-text or HTML message areas for an email? Or are you talking about including it on some underlying PHP template?

Very confused!
Thanks,
Vanessa

Dave Greenberg · July 07, 2011, 05:53:32 pm

If you're on a recent version, you may need to update your civicrm.settings.php file to allow for usage of smarty variables in your message templates. Check for this line:

define( 'CIVICRM_MAIL_SMARTY', 0 );

... and change the 0 to 1.

Also please update your forum profile to include CMS, CMS version, CiviCRM version etc.

nessnzoe · July 08, 2011, 09:13:18 am

Thanks, Dave.

I'll have our IT guy take a look at this.

I updated my profile for Civi and Drupal, but will have to check with my guy about MySQL, etc. We're on Drupal 6, CiviCRM 3.3.5.

Vanessa

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