Customize the Ubercart Email Based on Product

John — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:19:51 -0400

Let's learn to customize the Ubercart 2 purchase confirmation email based on product. Modifying the message is fairly straightforward, though not the most user-friendly in a Drupally sense.

What I needed was a way to customize text on the email based on what products had been purchased. I imagine this could be something added later to the node itself so that each product could have it's own text blurb added to the email when purchased, or if related to a purchased product, however I needed a quicker solution.

Find the Ubercart Email Template

In your file structure find modules/ubercart/uc_order/templates/customer.itpl.php for editing. At the top of the template add something like:
<?php foreach ($order->products as $product2) {
if ($product2->nid == 52) { $flag1 = 1; }
if ($product2->nid == 53) { $flag2 = 1; }
}
?>

You will of course need the "nid" of whatever your product nodes are. An example of this usage would be if you had a sporting goods store that sold products as well as training events like baseball camps. You could use something like this to check to see if the user had purchased a baseball glove and then insert a blurb into the email about upcoming baseball training camps.

In my case I was selling events and wanted a way to remind the user of the directions to the event. Since the events could be held in different buildings and/or rooms we needed to provide text based on the event.

Multiple Event Registration Using Drupal & Ubercart Attributes

John — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:37:37 -0400

Although not as flexible as Webform, we decided to use Ubercart Attributes to enable multiple event registration using Drupal. Here's a quick look into how to use it yourself. We use Drupal 6 the Ubercart 2 module.

This solution may not be suitable if you have advanced needs for information gathering or special user tracking, however if your need is simply to gather some info and allow a user to pay in advance for an event registration, this does the trick.

If you haven't yet, create an Event product class in Ubercart via the "Manage Classes" page (/admin/store/products/classes). Create a test event node we can play with.

In /admin/store/attributes click "add an attribute", for example, "Attendee Name". Choose "text field". Now let's edit your test event node. Near the top of the edit screen is the extra navigation Ubercart adds to product content types ("classes"). Choose "Attributes". Click the "add attributes form" link. You will see a box containing all the Attributes you created earlier. If you only created the one "Attendee Name" attribute then there will only be one attribute in this box. Select it and click the "add attributes" button. This attribute will now show up in your "add to cart" area of the node.

All that remains is some styling and you're all set!