Transactional emails if conditions discrepancy

Question

Trying to set different text for registered and guest customers order confirmation email (using single template, not sure why Magento has two different settings for this?) I've come across that {{if order.getCustomerIsGuest()}} always evaluates to true rendering {{else}} useless

I worked it around by using {{if order.getCustomerGroupId()}} but hoping someone can shed some light what can be culprit of this and to avoid other's pitfalls trying to implement this logic the same way as I originally did

Answer 1

I understand why your code doesn't work. See Varien_Filter_Template::ifDirective(): It compares '0' or '1' to '', which will both return false.

What I don't understand is why the same construct with customer_group_id does work. The only thing I can think of is that customer_group_id is filled with NULL in sales_flat_order table (which it isn't in my installation).

The only 2 simple solutions (implementation in < 1h) I can think of:

• Extend Mage_Sales_Model_Order and add a function called getCustomerIsGuest that returns false or true instead of '0' or '1'
• Extend Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter and replace the function ifDirective so it will treat '0' as false