The only thing I need now is to get the payment method in the mail, because it contains the banking details for payment-in-advance-orders.

But {{var payment_html}} outputs everything with tags and {{var paymentMethod}} is empty…

Hope you don’t mind.

My Magento has a custom checkout module installed (custom fields in the review step of checkout), and I have spent many hours already trying to figure out how to get the data generated by these fields to print up in the new order email along with the shipping info and order details. If I know the name of the database table where the custom info is being stored (custom_attribute_description) what sort of code should I use to echo the data onto the new order email? Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot for your post. I’ve been searching for a way to pass a variable to a dynamic block and now I found your solution with simply putting the variable name in it. This has annoyed me for at least a week now.

I’ve created my own module which creates salutations for newsletter subscribers if they are registered. So now I simply put in
{{block type=’arlookeeffe_newsletter/salutation’ value=$subscriber.getEmail()}}
instead of the standard salutation and in the block I search for a customer and output the salutation.
If anyone tries this themselves watch out when using a template. Magento removes your line with the block. But if you put it back in when you’re queuing everything works fine.

Thanks and Greetings from Germany,

Arlo O’Keeffe

It would probably be {{var order.getCustomerName().firstName}} or something like that. To really know you need to fire up your FTP client and go spelunking through the Magento codebase, as these types of things don’t seem to be documented anywhere. That’s how I put together this post–copy and paste, trial and error–so the best that I can do is wish you luck! =)

I am trying to change the customers’ name in the templates so it only shows the first name. This way it’s more personal and not so serious.

The problem I am having is with the variable {{var order.getCustomerName()}}, which I replaced with {{var customer.firstname}} but it doesn’t show anything…

Any idea how to do this?

Thank you very much for your help!

Simon