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Hi everyone,

I was happy to see, that there is the possibility to use custom tokens in mail templates to expand the standard CiviMail template functionality. Now I'm working for the whole day on this without displaying even the simpliest example. It's kind a frustrating so I hope you can help me a little bit on this before I loose my faith in CiviCRM.

I've tried to implement colemanw's custom token example (Create Your Own Tokens for Fun and Profit, under "Beyond Existing Tokens") without success. I've copypasted his code into my drupal modul and changed the function names. The hooks are executed successfully but the custom token is displayed as {date.date_short} instead of the correct date. To offer more details I'm pasting some watchdog output from my hooks in here:
/* Watchdog output in the last line of hook_civicrm_tokens */
// &tokens
Array
(
    [domain] =>
    [action] =>
    [mailing] =>
    [contact] =>
    [date] => Array
        (
            [date.date_short] => Today's Date: mm/dd/yyyy
            [date.date_med] => Today's Date: Mon d yyyy
            [date.date_long] => Today's Date: Month dth, yyyy
        )

)

/* Watchdog output in the last line of hook_civicrm_tokenValues */
// &values
Array
(
    [16946] => Array
        (
            [contact_id] => 16946
            [display_name] => John Doe
            [preferred_mail_format] => Both
            [hash] => 56321e3679c8dac40ae52c9d02fc23c9
            [is_deceased] => 0
            [email_id] => 11820
            [on_hold] => 0
        )

)
// &tokens
Array
(
    [domain] => Array
        (
            [address] => 1
        )

    [action] => Array
        (
            [optOutUrl] => 1
        )

)
// &context
CRM_Mailing_Page_Preview
As you can see, the array "tokens" does not contain the custom token, which was implement in "hook_civicrm_tokens" (so empty($tokens['date']) is always true). Even if I do not check if $tokens['date'] is empty, the custom token value does not show up in my mailings. I'm also wondering, why the &tokens array does contain the keys "domain" and "action".

Btw.: standard tokens like {contact.email} work as expected and it makes no difference, if I'm just sendung one single test mail or a large number via bulk mailing.

Edit #1: I have also tried to set CIVICRM_MAIL_SMARTY from 0 to 1 in civicrm.settings.php. This only results, that nothing is displayed (not even "{date.date_short}", just "").

Edit #2: If I send an e-mail directly to the contact (/civicrm/activity/email/add?action=add&reset=1&cid=16947&selectedChild=activity&atype=3), i get the right result (01/09/2014)! Hoooray! But using the custom token in bulk mailing templates still doesn't work

Any hint on this?

Thanks in advance
Philipp