Templates for Mass Mailer

I think you mentioned before eventually enabling templates for email, so this is just an idea to consider.

We have a set of well formatted HTML email letters I keep in the Joomla content articles, so I added a button in the Mass Mailer to fill the editor message block with the email. This example is for our welcome email but I will eventually have a select list. I had to solve several technical issues to get this to work.

JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_BASE . '/components/com_content/models', 'ContentModel');
$model = JModelLegacy::getInstance('Article', 'ContentModel');
        $articleId = 232;
$article = $model->getItem($articleId)->introtext;
$article = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), ' ', $article);
$article = str_replace('\'', '‘', $article);
$article = "'".$article."'";
$button = '<button class="button" onclick="clickme();">Welcome Letter</button><script>function clickme() {  tinymce.activeEditor.setContent('.$article.')}</script>'."\r\n";

and $button is put before the div on line 125 ('MASS_MAILER_MESSAGE_LABEL') of administrator/components/com_comprofiler/view/view.users.php

Of course, the HTML email article contains the replacement parameters, like [NAME], appropriate for the Mass Mailer.

We won't have email templating until CB 3.x. I'm looking into PHP libraries for it because straight HTML to Email is pretty tricky. Especially so when it comes to scoping CSS to the email. With a library we'd ideally just have layout files you could customize/override/create that would properly and safely process into email HTML.

I don't have a timeframe for this though so your solution is an excellent one for the time being. Have you considered turning it into a Joomla editor plugin extension and releasing it on the JED?

Thanks. I will consider that when I've made it work more generically.