Don't bother with templating

The reason for this if I remember correctly (do not have the module in front of me) is that the module passes the email body through theme('page').

You would need to find where, in the code, this is happening and modify it. I can look into writing a patch that adds an option to the administration for this later tonight or tomorrow but it may take a couple days to get done due to time constraints.

After investigating this further it does not go through theme('page') it goes through theme('send_body') so if you make an override for this in your theme file then you should be able to change the theming of the body. The theme_send_body function is below.

function theme_send_body($values) {
  $body = '';
  $template .= $values['template'];
  if ($values['message']) {
    $message = '<div class="messages">'.check_markup($values['message']).'</div>';
  }
  $body = $values['node_body'];
  $replace = array('%message', '%body');
  $values  = array($message, $body);
  
  return str_replace($replace, $values, $template);
}

The following page has information on creating and using a template.php file.
http://drupal.org/node/11811
Once this file is created you would need to create the function I posted in that file with the name [theme]_send_body where [theme] is the name of your theme (ie - garland). This function gets passed a parameter called $value and returns the actual HTML display of the email. By overriding this function you take away the module's themeing of the email body and do it all yourself.

I would like to change the template if possible without modifying the underlying code if possible. I am wondering what variables can be used in addition to %message and %body. Basically, I would prefer to send people a teaser and a link to the full article or maybe even just the link. The idea is to use send to drive people to the site versus send the site to them. :)

thanks

I'm open to ideas ( and patches ! ) for getting more tokens into the send message templates.

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that Send is capable of sending multiple nodes in a particular message. Therefore, it gets a little messy to contemplate having %link_to_node or %node_title, etc.

You can always disable the "allow sending of full text" item to restrict sent node(s) to a teaser view.

In send.inc line 592 it says

case 'teaser' :
        $text =  node_view($node, true, false, false);

If you change that to

 case 'teaser' :
        unset ($node->taxonomy); 
        $text =  node_view($node, true, false, false);

the teaser will still get sent. But the receipient will not have to look at taxonomy links.

You can up the ante and go

 case 'teaser' :
        unset ($node->taxonomy); 
        $text =  "Something " . node_view($node, true, false, false) . " Something else";

If you're used to do Drupal templating you might go

 case 'teaser' :
        $text =  $node->title . "<br />" . $node->teaser;

You can play the same tricks on case 'body' in line 598.

node_view is the function that loads the teaser or body text that you so desperately want to alter
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_view/5

Unset will be your best friend.

Thanks this thread helped me in creating my own template for `send` module... I am a newbie to drupal but with few clicks and play around with api , I was able to get this working.

1. go to your theme folder
2. add the following function to your template.php

<?php
/*Templating for Send Module*/
function YOURTHEME_send_body($values) {
  # send module can email multiple nodes, but my implementation sends only one.. 
  # so this hopefully not break anything, node_load function will grab all other details for the 
  # node that the user is emailing
  $node_details = node_load($values['nids']['0']);
  ## Adding my site banner 
  $body = '<hr /><img src="http://YOURSITE.com/logo.gif" /><br />';
  ## adding node title
  $body .= '<h2><a href="http://YOURSITE.com/'.$node_details->path.'">'.$node_details->title.'</a></h2><br/>';
  ## adding full body, you might change this to only teaser
  $body .= $node_details->body;


  $template .= $values['template'];
  if ($values['message']) {
    $message = '<div class="messages">'.check_markup($values['message']).'</div>';
  }
  $replace = array('%message', '%body');
  $values  = array($message, $body);
 
  return str_replace($replace, $values, $template);
}
?>

3. For testing, I used the following code. Its helpful when you have complicated CCK fields and want to debug your code. If you use gmail , use the "show original text" to see the actual values of the array.

<?php
/*Templating for Send Module*/
function YOURTHEME_send_body($values) {
  $node_details = node_load($values['nids']['0']);
  ## just dump everything into email body
  $body = print_r($node_details,TRUE);

  $template .= $values['template'];
  if ($values['message']) {
    $message = '<div class="messages">'.check_markup($values['message']).'</div>';
  }
  $replace = array('%message', '%body');
  $values  = array($message, $body);
 
  return str_replace($replace, $values, $template);
}
?>

Best way to tackle theming problem with 'send' module would be to have something like 'ConTemplate' :-)

HTH,

~Amiable_Indian

Thanks so much for the great example Amiable! I've added this to a handbook page for Send http://drupal.org/node/291748

Thanks for the function. I found that $body .= $values['node_body']; actually prints the node body while $body .= $node_details->body; returns nothing.