I have built a cakePHP3 application and I'm looking for some advice concerning the following situation. An e-mail configuration is setup as follows, to send a mail whenever a new order has been created.
public function orderCreated($order, array $attachments = [])
{
$email = $this
->locale($order->customer->language)
->to($order->customer->email)
->from(Configure::read('Webshop.email'), Configure::read('Webshop.name'))
->subject(__('Confirmation of your order {0}', $order->nr))
->template('orders' . DS . 'order_created')
->set(['order' => $order])
->attachments($attachments);
return $email;
}
Has worked perfectly fine for ages, but I'd like to add some new functionality to this specific e-mail (and others). Admins should be able to override the content of the orders/order_created.ctp template if they want to, so they can define the content of this e-mail theirselves. So they don't have to rely on the same content in the order_created.ctp template I did provide.
Creating a UI for saving their own e-mails is not the issue. But the issue I don't really know how I could provide the overrided content to the cakePHP3 mailer. I tried setting
->template(false)
->message($new_content)
But that didn't help. Message doesn't reach mailbox because the body is empty.
Thanks.
I think I'd go with something like this:
->template('orders' . DS . 'order_created_custom')
->set(['order' => $order, 'content' => $new_content])
And then in the new order_created_custom.ctp you would output the $content. This gives you the option to do some text replacements on the content based on the $order, as well as perhaps having things like a standard salutation or signature.
Related
I'm making by a requirement a code able to send an E-mail to an specific list of E-mails, due the fact that I must to include the attachments of the record I decided to use an apex class instead an e-mail alert. This object (A custom object ) must populate some fields in an email template with some of the record´s fields. I implemented the following code
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
mail.setToAddresses(lista);
mail.setTemplateId('00X21000000QR22');
//mail.setWhatId(idMinuta);
mail.setTargetObjectId('005d0000005NMIx');
mail.setSaveAsActivity(false);
List<Messaging.Emailfileattachment> fileAttachments = new List<Messaging.Emailfileattachment>();
for (ContentVersion document: documents)
{
Messaging.Emailfileattachment efa = new Messaging.Emailfileattachment();
efa.setFileName(document.Title);
efa.setBody(document.VersionData);
fileAttachments.add(efa);
}
mail.setFileAttachments(fileAttachments);
Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] { mail });
I understood that to make the fields merge it´s necesary to use the WhatId method. In the related code, I have commented it because It generates an error (INVALID_ID_FIELD, WhatId is not available for sending emails to UserIds.)
My question is, if is it possible to do this with a custom object. I´m a little confuse with salesforce documentation beacuse it looks like the method supports a custom object, or maybe If I am forggeting something to include in the code.
If i keep the WhatID line commented, effectively the email is sent with the attachments and the Template but it is not populated.
I really need this kind of solution because the org have in this object at least 20 email templates, for me will be easier just to pass the Id of the template instead of makig a code with 20 different html codes for each situation
Thanks a lot
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Why is there nowhere in the Configuration/System/Mail Sending Settings to specify a user name and password for your smtp server?
To get around this, do you need to make the changes to getMail() outlined in this post:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1073/P30/
I want to do something very simple:
- create an e-mail template
- do not have to make reference to that template in any config files.
- programmatically send an e-mail using the template defined above
- supply values to replace any tags in the template
- supply recipient e-mail addresses
- supply other bits, like a from address
So first step - create a template.
- In Confguration/Transactional Emails I believe I am supposed to see a list of templates. I see nothing. But if I add a new template, I can select from a list of templates.
- Give template a name of "Bob".
- Add a few vars to the template:
myvar1={{var myvar1}}
myvar2={{var myvar2}}
- Save the template; it is given an Id of 1.
Now send the e-mail programmatically from a controller action:
- No need to make change to LINEEND in Mime.php as it is already set to \n in version 1.4.2.0
- Make changes to getMail() in Template.php as specified in this post: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1073/P30/
- Write code in the controller action to send the e-mail:
This returns nothing:
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadDefault('no matter what goes here emailTemplate is not set');
This does return an email template:
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadByCode('Bob');
but the call to send below fails:
$emailTemplate->setSenderEmail('sent#byme.com');
$emailTemplate->setSenderName('Steve');
$emailTemplateVariables = array();
$emailTemplateVariables['myvar1'] = 'TestValue1';
$emailTemplateVariables['myvar2'] = 'TestValue2';
// $processedTemplate = $emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($emailTemplateVariables); -- this returns nothing
$emailTemplate->send('thisisme#mydomain.com','John', $emailTemplateVariables);
In the system.log I get the warning below, and no e-mail ever arrives.
Warning: stream_socket_enable_crypto() [<a href='streams.crypto'>streams.crypto</a>]: this stream does not support SSL/crypto in C:\Applications\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\magento\lib\Zend\Mail\Protocol\Smtp.php on line 206
Should I be using loadByCode? I wish there was some worthwhile documentation (the help for loadByCode is "Load template by code" !!). Should I be using send, sendTransactional? Oh for a bit of quality documentation.
Thanks
I see 2 questions here.
1. How to configure Magento mailing system to use smtp protocol ?
You are having trouble for this because Magento is made to use default host mailing. So it will search for it on the machine where it is installed.
If you want to configure a smtp server, I would recommend using this extension : http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/ziq2004/extension/460/advanced-smtp--artson.it
I found it simple to use and configure.
2. How to send a mail in your custom module
You can first create your template in Confguration/Transactional Emails, mark down the Id for it will be your identifier
Then, simply use this code to send the mail in your module
<?php
// The Id you just marked...
$templateId = 1;
// Define the sender, here we query Magento default email (in the configuration)
// For customer support email, use : 'trans_email/ident_support/...'
$sender = Array('name' => Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name'),
'email' => Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email'));
// Set you store
// This information may be taken from the current logged in user
$store = Mage::app()->getStore();
// In this array, you set the variables you use in your template
$vars = Array('my_var' => $my_var,
'another_var' => 12);
// You don't care about this...
$translate = Mage::getSingleton('core/translate');
// Send your email
Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->sendTransactional($templateId,
$sender,
'recipient#gmail.com',
'Recipient Name',
$vars,
$store->getId());
// You don't care as well
$translate->setTranslateInline(true);
?>
Hope this will help you
Regards,
I took out the 'ssl' => 'tls' element in the array in getMail() in Template.php and my e-mail came through.
I'd still appreciate if anyone has an explanation of how the smtp server's username and password should be specified, and an explanation of the differences in the template load methods etc would be most welcome!
If anyone is looking for full sample code of how to send a Magento email based on an existing Magento email template, the following works well. It does not require any XML config. You can load the template by name as well as by ID. In this case I load it by name.
// This is the name that you gave to the template in System -> Transactional Emails
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadByCode('My Custom Email Template');
// These variables can be used in the template file by doing {{ var some_custom_variable }}
$emailTemplateVariables = array(
'some_custom_variable' => 'Hello World'
);
$processedTemplate = $emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($emailTemplateVariables);
$emailTemplate->setSenderName('Joe Bloggs');
$emailTemplate->setSenderEmail('test#test.com');
$emailTemplate->setTemplateSubject("Here is your subject");
$emailTemplate->send('recipient#test.com', 'Joanna Bloggs', $emailTemplateVariables);
Is it possible to send an e-mail programmatically in Magento? Maybe from a controller in a custom module, could you get hold of a template, populate its variables, and send the e-mail?
Thanks.
Absolutely. Here's an example from the Checkout helper:
$mailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template');
$template = Mage::getStoreConfig('checkout/payment_failed/template', $checkout->getStoreId());
$mailTemplate->setDesignConfig(array('area'=>'frontend', 'store'=>$checkout->getStoreId()))
->sendTransactional(
$template,
Mage::getStoreConfig('checkout/payment_failed/identity', $checkout->getStoreId()),
$recipient['email'],
$recipient['name'],
array(
'reason' => $message,
...
'total' => $total
)
);
It's certainly possible. The email handling in Magento is quite powerful (and can be complex).
Without knowing exactly what you're trying to achieve, it would be worth you starting off by looking at the Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template class as that drives Magento's email handling.
I'm using the cakePHP email component for sending mails from my application. Now the return-path has something like www#domain.tld
How can I set or rewrite the Return-Path value in emails when using the cakePHP Component?
I know how to do it when sending mails via 'mail' in PHP but the cakePHP email component seems to missing such a feature... or am I missing something? :)
In CakePHP 2 (where the Email Component is largely replaced by the CakeEmail class), you can do this configuration inside /app/Config/email.php:
class EmailConfig {
public $email = array(
...
// The next line attempts to create a 'Return-path' header
'returnPath' => 'myaddress#mydomain.com',
// But in some sendmail configurations (esp. on cPanel)
// you have to pass the -f parameter to sendmail, like this
'additionalParameters' => '-fmyaddress#mydomain.com',
...
);
}
Or if you need to do it just for a single email, something like this should work...
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
$email = new CakeEmail('MyConfig');
$email->from(...)
->to(...)
->subject(...)
->returnPath('myaddress#mydomain.com')
// Haven't tested this next line, but may possibly work?
->config(array('additionalParameters' => '-fmyaddress#mydomain.com'))
->send();
There's an attribute called EmailComponent::return that is the return path for error messages. Note that this is different than the replyTo attribute.
$this->Email->return = 'name#example.com';
http://book.cakephp.org/1.3/en/The-Manual/Core-Components/Email.html
A co-worker and I were working on this same issue, we found that editing the following line in php.ini gave us our fix:
from:
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
to:
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f youremail#address
when testing be sure to send your emails to a valid domain. this caught us for a few minutes.
To change the return path in CakePHP Email component I do like this:
...
$return_path_email = 'return#email.com';
...
$this->Email->additionalParams = '-f'.$return_path_email;
and it works like charm ;)
Digging into the cake manual when you were looking at how to use the rest of the component you should have seen something like the following. This is what set the Return-Path.
$this->Email->return = 'name#tld.com';
I'm using the Symfony 1.4 mailer where I build the various bits needed for an email and then send it out using:
$this->getMailer()->composeAndSend($sender, $recipient, $subject, $body);
In the email body, I need to able to take advantage of variables generated in the action, so right now I might have this in my action:
$body = 'Your username is '.$username.' and this is the email body.';
Does anyone know of an elegant way of storing/organising various email bodies, instead of having to code them like this straight into my action? I will have many email templates and will also have them in multiple languages.
I've found an old Askeet tutorial discussing this but it seems somewhat out of date with the new symfony 1.4 integration of SwiftMailer, and SwiftMailer documentation itself isn't very clear on this.
Thank you.
I store the email bodies as a template file and render them via sfPartialView. E.g. inside an action:
$view = new sfPartialView($this->getContext(), $this->getModuleName(), $this->getActionName(), 'confirmation_mail');
$view->setTemplate('_confirmation_mail.php');
// values can be set e.g. by setAttibute
$view->setAttribute('name', $name);
$body = $view->render()
The body templates are located in the module's template folder, but I am sure you can somehow change this and e.g. put all email templates into one folder if you want to.
How about just using the native method availible inside sfAction.
$this->getPartial('partial_name'); which works like the partial helpers for you templates.