Magento order confirmation email with shipping estimates

Question

I have written some code that depending on the selected shipping method of an order, echos an estimated date on the magento order shipping email. I want to include this in the Magento order confirmation email, however the shipping method title (which I use within an if loop) doesn't exist yet at this stage.

By default, Magento gets the shipping details by calling the followig variable

{{var order.getShippingDescription()}}.

Is there a way to use this variable within a php file to write some code based on the value of this variable? How would I call the variable within php to do so?

I have tried getting the order shipping method by doing things such as

       $this->getShippingAddress()->getShippingDescription();

However This just returns a Call to a member function on a non-object...

I am really lost so any help would be massively appreciated...

Frank

Answer 1

All shipping information are stored in the order object. So you can get them directly from the order model. Basically {{var order.getShippingDescription()}} is equal to $order->getShippingDescription(); . So all you need to do is to load your order model and then use the code given above to get shipping description.

Have a look at this answer for a descriptive explanation: https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/30491/14528