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When I send out my transactional email programatically, I'm not getting any items in a table like I do when the email is sent automatically.

Looking into the templates, the information is pulled across via:

{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}}

This is sending directive:

$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadByCode("More Information Required"); $emailTemplate->setSenderEmail(Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email', Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId())); $emailTemplate->setSenderName(Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name', Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId())); $emailTemplate->send($order->getCustomerEmail(), $order->getCustomerName(), [ 'order' => $order, 'customer' => $order->getCustomerName(), 'dateAndTime' => $order->getCreatedAt() ]);

All the data is filled correctly, except the order items grid. Nothing is displayed for this.

Update
To answer the question in the comments, the $order variable is generated as a result of an observer action on an event (in this case, sales_order_save_after). The variable that eventually becomes $order (when passed into a function) is formed as follows:

$observer->getEvent()->getData('data_object')

This contains a standard order object, of the following class: Mage_Sales_Model_Order

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  • What do you get if you dump your $order var? Commented Nov 10, 2014 at 14:49
  • @mbalparda I've updated the question with your query in mind. Commented Nov 10, 2014 at 15:04
  • Do you have "{{var items_html}}" after "{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}}"? Look here: magento.stackexchange.com/questions/7484/… Commented Nov 10, 2014 at 21:06
  • I'm afraid that adding {{var items_html}} doesn't seem to help either. Commented Nov 11, 2014 at 7:52
  • In your call to $emailTemplate->send, is that pseudo-code? See your third argument. You can't construct an array in PHP with brackets like that ([]) - it would throw an exception. Commented Dec 3, 2014 at 16:32

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I'll take a shot in the dark.
If you send e-mails from an "area agnostic" script then the layout directive does not know from where to load the handle sales_email_order_items.
Take a look at the layoutDirective method from the Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter class. This is the class that parses and interprets the email templates: 

 if (isset($params['area'])) { $layout->setArea($params['area']); } else { $layout->setArea(Mage::app()->getLayout()->getArea()); }

In your case $params['area'] is not set and you fall on the else case.
but here Mage::app()->getLayout()->getArea() most probably has no value.

You can try to change this 

{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order}}

to this

{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order area="frontend"}}

or 

{{layout handle="sales_email_order_items" order=$order area="adminhtml"}}

to see what happens.

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  • I'm afraid neither frontend or adminhtml will work in my case. Thanks for your help though! Commented Dec 4, 2014 at 13:53
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    @DanHanly. Sorry. Apparently I'm not that good at shooting in the dark. At least you have a place to start debugging. layoutDirective is the start point. Commented Dec 4, 2014 at 13:55
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    The 'area' point was a good one, though it wasn't appropriate to add the it into the layout handle declaration. Before I begin adding parameters to the order, I needed to add the following line - $emailTemplate->setDesignConfig(['area' => 'frontend', 'store' => $storeId]); This meant that the email itself was configured to utilise a specific area. Your thought process led me to discover this answer, so thanks very much for that. Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 14:05
  • @DanHanly. AHA. I knew it was something about the area. Nice call on the the setDesignConfig. I learned something from this question also :). Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 14:15
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    @DanHanly. Thanks. But I feel a little bad that I didn't give a right answer. I feel like I don't really deserve the full bounty. :) Commented Dec 10, 2014 at 15:18

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