Add the Order Number to the Confirmation Subject line

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I was asked by a customer to add the Order number to the email confirmation subject line.
This information is already present so it was a simple case of a bit of code change to make this happen.

The file we want to work on is the catalog / checkout_process.php file
Open it and find on line 284

tep_mail($order->customer['firstname'] . ' ' . $order->customer['lastname'], $order->customer['email_address'], EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT, $email_order, STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

the top line makes up the email that is sent to the customer, the second is sent to the store owner.
The part we are interested is the EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT this is the part we are going to change.
The EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT is defined in the file catalog / includes / languages <any> / checkout_process.php, it says. define('EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT', 'Order Process'); this is the Order Process you see for an order.

What we want to do is to add to this the order number, this is already defined in the file as a variable, $insert_id so all we have to do is to enter in into the line like so....

tep_mail($order->customer['firstname'] . ' ' . $order->customer['lastname'], $order->customer['email_address'], EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT . $insert_id , $email_order, STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

now when you get an order email it will say Order Process2400 which is OK but not really what you want. So you can do the following, this is my way there are a few other ways you can go also, but mine is the correct method.

Add a space, or better still add "order number" before the actual number..... make the following change to the file, catalog / includes / languages <any> / checkout_process.php

define ('EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER', ' Order Number '); If your store is multi language then add this define to each of the checkout_process.php files under the language folders.

and change the line of code to

tep_mail($order->customer['firstname'] . ' ' . $order->customer['lastname'], $order->customer['email_address'], EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT . EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER . $insert_id , $email_order, STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

Now the out put will look like, Order Process Order number 284

We can also go on to add the Customers name to the subject line also, to do this you need to do the above and add

define ('EMAIL_TEXT_CUSTOMER_NAME', ' Customers Name ');

and change the code to ........

tep_mail($order->customer['firstname'] . ' ' . $order->customer['lastname'], $order->customer['email_address'], EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT . EMAIL_TEXT_CUSTOMER_NAME . $order->customer['name']. EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER . $insert_id , $email_order, STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
You may find that you need to add a space between the output Custoemr name and order number, to do this add .' ' . so it now looks like.

Its as easy as that!

The line we changed above goes to the customer only, the line that send an email to you the store own is found on line 288 and looks like this

if (SEND_EXTRA_ORDER_EMAILS_TO != '') {
tep_mail('', SEND_EXTRA_ORDER_EMAILS_TO, EMAIL_TEXT_SUBJECT, $email_order, STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
}

The change is exactly the same for this line.