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POMagento email template: Block template inheritance broken
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Problem When I try to add a block into my transactional email template in the following manner: <code>{{block type='core/template' area='frontend' template='invent/baskettimer/email_items.phtml' record=$record}}</code> I get the following error, and nothing is rendered. <code>CRIT (2): Not valid template file:frontend/base/default/template/invent/baskettimer/email_items.phtml</code> Troubleshooting <ul> <li>Normally this warning points to a typo which is breaking the inheritance but I have quadruple checked and this should work.</li> <li>I then copied the file into the base and did a test, it rendered correctly.</li> <li>Create a custom block and set the template, same error is displayed.</li> </ul> Theory To me it seems template inheritance is broken / not implemented for emails, so it is always looking in base, I cannot put my templates there so I am not sure how to call them. Possible workarounds <ul> <li>Render the block to html then send it to as a variable to render, problem with this is I am sending the emails from Model level and am having a hard time pre rendering the block, even with a helper.</li> <li>Render the data using a method, don't really want to do this as it is message / against MVC.</li> </ul> Any help is much appreciated. <hr> Bounty update So I have traced down the problem, it is probably an easy solution now. The problem is that I am calling it from a cronjob does not have the correct store view, it is fairly easy to replicate similar situation by using a shell script, then changing the _appCode to null. <pre><code><?php require_once 'abstract.php'; class Mage_Shell_Shell extends Mage_Shell_Abstract { protected $_appCode = ''; // works - remove to not work /** * Run script * */ public function run() { Mage::getModel('invent_baskettimer/email')->sendJob(); } } $shell = new Mage_Shell_Shell(); $shell->run(); </code></pre> So basically the question has become: How do I call a <code>block->toHtml()</code> regardless of store view?
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