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I have a working html email using modules: Mail System, HTML Mail, SMTP Authentication Support.

And I want to include some parameters/variables in the html email template file:

htmlmail--htmlmail.tpl.php

some variables include: $base_path etc. from page.tpl.php variables

From what I've read from the Internet, you may use "hooking" and I haven't yet hooked variables so far for my template file.

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you can use the yourtheme_preprocess_htmlmail() function for htmlmail email template in put in the template.php file of your current theme. I will give an example. 

function yourtheme_preprocess_htmlmail(&$variables) {
  switch($variables['key']){
    case 'password-reset':
     $variables['var1'] = t('SAMPLE TEXT');
     break;
    case 'register-no-approval-required':
     $variables['var1'] = t('SAMPLE TEXT');
     break;        
    break;
   }
   $variables['heading'] = t('Heading text');
   $variables['copyright'] = t('Copyright text.');
 }

In this example. I created some customized variables base on the mailkey and defined some others like heading, copyright

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i've encounter this hook but it seems to me it didn't work, i can't access variables like heading in the htmlmail template file, here is the output of the $variables object in the email for this bin(haha, disregard the infos): phpbin.net/8bYMvJHO by the way, i used another class: HTMLMailSystem__SmtpMailSystem, would it matter the hook function name? – user1076813 Jun 6 at 5:57
For the email template, i think you should copy the htmlmail.tpl.php from htmlmail module. I think The htmlmail--htmlmail.tpl.php just uses for testing HTMLMailSystem – Stone Vo Jun 6 at 7:12
i see, thanks for this, i just only tried using send test email and the preprocess hook(mytheme_preprocess_htmlmail) doesn't even called/invoked so variables object isn't manipulated/add, why is this? – user1076813 Jun 6 at 9:23
and sorry I can't upvode you now since I just started to create this account, soon... – user1076813 Jun 6 at 9:41
I checked already. The preprocess_htmlmail function didn't apply for sending test email. You can test that by go to admin/config/people/accounts, enable Notify new user when account created by admin. and create new account to receive a email. Remember set the HTMLMailSystem__SmtpMailSystem value for the Site-wide default MailSystemInterface class in Mail System – Stone Vo Jun 6 at 10:37

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