Styling Html Email - Idea

[a.daniello]

I think that styling html email is good and using cross client/browser compatible email (also responsive) is better.
 
Moreover add the necessary code html and css to make it through the WYSIWYG editor of Blesta, it is virtually impossible (if it is good, after saving you lose pieces).
 
I image, editing email templates in Blesta, that i can select for each template a "model", stored in company folder: so i can make transactional emails more attractive and effective.
 
I made some changes that work for us:
- we get and update an html email from https://github.com/mailgun/transactional-email-templates;
- we put one or more placeholders (eg, "@BODY@") in this template;
- we put this template in "uploads/[COMPANY_ID]/email_templates" folder and name (e.g. "tpl_email.htm");
- we added in app/models/emails.php after row #806 

$email->html = $parser->parseString($email->html, $parser_options_html)->render($tags);

the following

Loader::loadComponents($this, array("SettingsCollection"));
                $tmp = $this->SettingsCollection->fetchSetting(null, Configure::get("Blesta.company_id"), "uploads_dir");
                $template_path = $tmp['value'] . Configure::get("Blesta.company_id") . DS . "email_templates" . DS;
                if (file_exists($template_path . "tpl_email.htm")) {
                    $tpl = file_get_contents($template_path . "tpl_email.htm");
                    $email->html = str_replace('@BODY@', $email->html, $tpl);
}

Attached you can see one of results. But now i like to have a more friendly management of this feature.

 

What do you think about?

 

[Blesta Addons]

a option to allow using a premade html template is a good feature , like the mailchmp or any other mailing system .

[alexistkd]

+1 blesta should have some nice templates by default for email welcome, etc as examples so then we can modify it and play with them

[Jonathan]

+1, very handy

[a.daniello]

Thanks! It's simple to code, but very nice. 

 

Waiting for Blesta team feedback about this idea.

[NickP]

Would be nice to have the ability to use universal CSS for the email templates! 

[Joseph H]

+1

[WebHostCentral UK - Dean]

+1 for this also

[domaingood]

+1