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Sending Email

Three steps to sending HTML emails.

Step 1: Get Component

Get the component email.

Step 2: Create Views

Create /app/views/layouts/email.thtml to hold your layout wrapper. It should look something like this: 

<html>
<?php echo $content_for_layout; ?>
</html>


Create /app/views/yourcontroller/email_to_send.thtml to hold the contents of the email. If you want to use variables you could use something like this: 

The value of variable $var_to_email is '<?php echo $var_to_email; ?>'

Step 3: Controller Setup

Add: 

var $components = array('Email');

Now, in the controller method you want to email from, add: 

$this->set('var_to_email',$some_data_for_email);
$this->Email->controller = $this;
$this->Email->tpl = 'email_to_send';//name of thtml to include
$this->Email->to = 'someone@recipient.com';
$this->Email->from = 'someone@sender.com';
$this->Email->cc = 'someone@copied.com';
$this->Email->bcc = 'someone@blindcopied.com';
$this->Email->subject = 'the subject';
if($this->Email->send())
{
    $this->set('message','email was sent');
}
else
{
    $this->set('message','email could not be sent');
}
//the rest of the controller method...

Done

 
tutorials/sending_email.txt · Last modified: 2006/02/05 00:00 by tobius