Override AE mail header and footer in FreelanceEngine

Hi there,

Today, we’ll guide you how to change the email’s header and footer sent to the users in FreelanceEngine.

The email functions are located in “class-ae-mailing.php”. The email content is included in this code:

$this->get_mail_header().$your_content.$this->get_mail_footer()

Therefore you can modify email’s header and footer by overriding 2 functions: get_mail_header, get_mail_footer.

These functions also have a filter which helps you to hook in and change the content in email’s header/footer. You can learn more about WordPress add_filter here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

Email’s format is HTML Table.

You can take a look at the example below for details:

add_filter('ae_get_mail_header', 'ae_custom_mail_header');
function ae_custom_mail_header($mail_header) {
 $mail_header = '<html>
 <head> 
 </head>
 <body style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 0.9em;margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #222222;">
 <div style="margin: 0px auto; width:600px; ">
 <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr style="">
 <td style="padding: 10px 5px 10px 20px; width: 20%;">
 Logo here 
 </td>
 <td style="padding: 10px 20px 10px 5px">
 <span style="text-shadow: 0 0 1px #151515; color: #b0b0b0;">Description</span>
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr><td colspan="2" style="height: 5px;"></td></tr>
 <tr>
 <td colspan="2" style="background: #ffffff; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; padding: 10px 20px;">';
 return $mail_header;
}

add_filter('ae_get_mail_footer', 'ae_custom_mail_footer');
function ae_custom_mail_footer($mail_footer){
 $mail_footer = '</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td colspan="2" style="padding: 10px 20px; color: #666;">
 <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
 <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 50%;">Copy right</td>
 <td style="text-align: right; width: 50%;">INFO</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </td> 
 </tr>
 </table> 
 </div> 
 </body>
 </html>';
 return $mail_footer;
}

Here’s the result: