Sending customer email when updating order status

-- HikaShop version -- : 3.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.8.8
-- PHP version -- : 5.6
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : No errors

$orderId = 20421;
$orderClass = hikashop_get('class.order');
$fullOrder = $orderClass->loadFullOrder((int)$orderId, true, false);

$orderObj = new stdClass();
$orderObj->order_status = "shipped";
$orderObj->order_id = $fullOrder->order_id;
$orderObj->history = new stdClass();
$orderObj->history->history_notified = 1;
$orderClass->save($orderObj);

Hello,

Can you check that the "Order status notification" email is published via "Hikashop->System->Emails" ?

Thank you.

Hello

Yeap it is published. Emails work fine when setting the status manually but not through the php script.

Hello,

Thank you for the reply
I'll explain a bit more on the process at the moment.

Order gets created and updates to 'Confirmed' when paid for (all works fine, emails are sent etc..)
Plugin is hooked on onAfterOrderUpdate and gets the orderId and cURL posts it to another script (script pulls full order, formats a new object to how I need it with the order details and posts it off site) Does not make any changes or updates to the order

Another script is setup to basically update the orders status:
It loads the full order and makes a change to the status if required.

Everything works perfectly fine, script changes order status to 'Shipped' - adds tracking ID to the history etc all updates and reflects on the system.

The only thing it is not doing is sending the email to say 'You're order is now shipped' etc.

// Edit

Just to add to this, the hikashop_history table is updating correctly, showing new_status = shipped and notified = 1

Thanks

Hello,

There are no entries in the Emails History for that order (for the status modification) the normal create/confirmed are there but not my update.
$send_email is not used at all in the plugin, so I assume default of true?.
I'll try and force it to true.

Is there any manual way I can send the email? I have read some threads about the mail class and loading a notification?

Also just to clarify, this can be ran from an external script which is loading the Joomla framework & the Hikashop helpers?.
The actions I am taking on updating the order etc do not happen within a plugin, it is external.

Hello,

I have noticed that when I put the ->sendMail code inside the plugin it works and sends two emails! (Don't really understand why two).

<?php
define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', '../../../');

require_once JPATH_BASE . 'includes/defines.php';
require_once JPATH_BASE . 'includes/framework.php';

$app = JFactory::getApplication('site');

if(!defined('DS'))
    define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
if(!include_once(rtrim(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR,DS).DS.'components'.DS.'com_hikashop'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'helper.php')) return true;

$orderClass = hikashop_get('class.order');
$order = $orderClass->loadNotification((int)$order_id, 'order_status_notification');
$mailClass = hikashop_get('class.mail');
$mailClass->sendMail($order->mail);

$orderClass = hikashop_get('class.order');
                $order = $orderClass->loadNotification((int)$result->orderid, 'order_status_notification');
                $mailClass = hikashop_get('class.mail');
                $mailClass->sendMail($order->mail);

OK Great, it seems to work outside of the plugin directory, I placed the file in the main root public_html folder and it works fine.