Save email template to database when install data Magento 2

Question

I want create a new template, but not from Marketing > Email Templates i want to do it programmatically from my custom extension, the idea is the new template will be saved when Setup/InstallData.php runs, is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You can make the InstallData.php file look like this

<?php
namespace [Vendor]\[Module]\Setup;

use Magento\Framework\Setup\InstallDataInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleContextInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleDataSetupInterface;
use Magento\Email\Model\TemplateFactory;


class InstallData implements InstallDataInterface
{
    /**
     * Template factory
     *
     * @var TemplateFactory
     */
    private $templateFactory;

    /**
     * Init
     *
     * @param TemplateFactory $templateFactory
     */
    public function __construct(TemplateFactory $templateFactory)
    {
        $this->templateFactory = $templateFactory;
    }
    public function install(ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup, ModuleContextInterface $context) 
    {
        $template = $this->templateFactory->create();
        $template->setTemplateCode('your template name here');
        $template->setTemplateText('your template text here');
        $template->setTemplateStyles('your template custom styles here');    
        $template->setTemplateSubject('your subject here');
        $template->setOrigTemplateCode('code of the template you are replacing');
        $template->save();
    }
}

Watch out for syntax errors. I didn't test the code.