Is there not a template for the confirmation email?

[kirbyglad]

I need to send an attachment with the confirmation email. The name of the attachement file will be different for each order.

I suppose I could use the Order API but if so I need to pass a parameter to the CGI that is calculated by javascript, not one of the ShopCart Variables, and I'm not sure I can do this with the setup screen provided.

[Jim]

There is no built in function to allow attachments to confirmation emails. So you would need to use the OrderAPI functionality and send the email from your app. I don't know what you need to pass from one cgi to the other but you would probably need to put it in a cookie and then read that cookie from your app.

[kirbyglad]

Maybe I'm confused - the order API script is called and runs on the server, but the cookie would be on the host, so how would I get it?

What am I missing?

[robm]

You can read cookies with PHP or perl code, so you can set a cookie in a cusotmer's browser, and then read it via the API. The only requirement is the domain you set the cookie on must match the domain of the thank you page.

PHP read cookies:
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_cookies.asp

Perl read cookies:
http://devdaily.com/perl/edu/articles/pl010012/

[PatG]

you can also post and read cookies using javascript, which you said you're already using in your code.

in the html email, the code from the thankyou email template runs on the user's machine, where the cookie resides.

i use php for some dynamic features on my pages and had to switch it over to javascript for the cart pages, which included reading cookies and such. i didn't happen to use any dynamic features in the thankyou email, but i have inspected the properties of the email and can see the html code that is embedded in the emails message. a quick test might tell you javascriot there would function properly.

see the last panel here for the template code, where you can customize the html (with javascript):
http://shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/ ... cart.shtml