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If you go to the scheduled reminders, and pick add a reminder, the tokens for the large text fields do have the membership information to pick as tokens.  You could copy those tokens into your receipt and see if they pull the information in. 

So, membership related tokens are available from a search where you render the results as memberships. In 4.4 you can send emails or generate pdfs from this same screen. A patch for 4.2 for this is here
https://github.com/CiviCRM42/civicrm42-core/pull/36 (it could go into the next 4.2 release but I don't think anyone is pushing for it to be in 4.2)

we have used this token https://github.com/eileenmcnaughton/tokens/blob/master/latestcurrentmembership.inc to make some membership details available to searches available from the normal contact screens (it looks for the latest expiring current membership). The limitation we hit is where people have 2 memberships expiring on the same day.

We installed civitoken to enable that token (https://github.com/eileenmcnaughton/civitoken) but you could just lift the code & use it as appropriate

@Eileen,

Thanks for all the work you've done with tokens for CiviCRM.

So far I haven't been able to get it to work.

Here is what I've done.

1. On my CiviCRM 4.3.7/Drupal 7.23 installation I installed civitoken (which I got from GitHub) to sites/all/modules and turned it on.
2. I created a directory: sites/all/civicrm_custom/custom_templates/tokens
3. I set sites/all/civicrm_custom/custom_templates as the path for custom templates at: civicrm/admin/setting/path?reset=1
4. I put the file latestcurrentmembership.inc (which I got from github) into sites/all/civicrm_custom/custom_templates/tokens
5. I did a contacts search. For the result set I chose "Send Email".
6. I hoped for the membership tokens to show up when I clicked on the tokens icon, but sadly they didn't.
7. I used the token anyway: {latestcurrentmembership.end_date} and sent the email. In the email it just printed the literal and did not replace the token with the dynamic information.

Am I close? Any ideas where I might be going wrong.

Thanks much,

Shai

Eileen,

It works!!! Thank you. Thank you.

For others who may come upon this; note that the date output format used by the custom token is hard-coded into latestcurrentmembership.inc; it is not pulled from the settings at civicrm/admin/setting/date?reset=1.

But it is really very easy to customize inside latestcurrentmembership.inc.

Line 28 looks like this:
$value['latestcurrentmembership.end_date']= date('m-d-Y', strtotime($membership['membership_end_date']));
which outputs 21-10-2013.

You just need to adjust the arguments of the date function in order to get the output format you want. So for example, I changed it to:

$value['latestcurrentmembership.end_date']= date('F j, Y', strtotime($membership['membership_end_date']));
which outputs October 21, 2013.

Here is a handy-dandy reference for PHP's date function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Eileen, thanks again for the great work!