value) pairs. * - $from: The configured sender address. * - $to: The recipient subscriber email address. * - $subject: The message subject line. * - $body: The formatted message body. * - $language: The language object for this message. * - $params: An array containing the following keys: * - context: An array containing the following keys: * - account: The recipient subscriber account object, which contains * the following useful properties: * - snid: The simplenews subscriber id, or NULL for test messages. * - name: The subscriber username, or NULL. * - activated: The date this subscription became active, or NULL. * - uid: The subscriber user id, or NULL. * - mail: The subscriber email address; same as $message['to']. * - language: The subscriber language code. * - tids: An array of taxonomy term ids. * - newsletter_subscription: An array of subscription ids. * - node: The simplenews newsletter node object, which contains the * following useful properties: * - changed: The node last-modified date, as a unix timestamp. * - created: The node creation date, as a unix timestamp. * - name: The username of the node publisher. * - nid: The node id. * - title: The node title. * - uid: The user ID of the node publisher. * - newsletter: The simplenews newsletter object, which contains the * following useful properties: * - nid: The node ID of the newsletter node. * - name: The short name of the newsletter. * - description: The long name or description of the newsletter. * - $template_path: The relative path to the template directory. * - $template_url: The absolute url to the template directory. * - $theme: The name of the selected Email theme. * - $theme_path: The relative path to the Email theme directory. * - $theme_url: The absolute url to the Email theme directory. */ $template_name = basename(__FILE__); $current_path = realpath(NULL); $current_len = strlen($current_path); $template_path = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); if (!strncmp($template_path, $current_path, $current_len)) { $template_path = substr($template_path, $current_len + 1); } $template_url = url($template_path, array('absolute' => TRUE)); ?>
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To customize your simplenews messages:

  1. Visit admin/config/system/htmlmail and select a theme to hold your custom email template files.

  2. Visit admin/appearance to enable your selected theme.

  3. Edit your

    file.

  4. Copy

    to

  5. For general Simplenews message customization, copy

    to

  6. For message-specific customization, copy

    to one of the following:

    • htmlmail--simplenews--node.tpl.php

      Regular newsletter template.

    • htmlmail--simplenews--subscribe.tpl.php

      New subscriber confirmation message.

    • htmlmail--simplenews--test.tpl.php

      Test newsletter.

    • htmlmail--simplenews--unsubscribe.tpl.php

      Unsubscribe confirmation message.

  7. Edit the copied file.

  8. Send a test message to make sure your customizations worked.

  9. If you think your customizations would be of use to others, please contribute your file as a feature request in the issue queue.

The simplenews module sets the $params variable. For this message, 

$params =