Create Email HTML Using Partial in Zend Framework 2? - email

Question

I'm working on a system where we want to queue up a batch of emails and then send them using a queue (so I can't use \Zend\Mail directly). The goal is to not have HTML inside the models that are creating the emails but instead have them in a view file. I'm trying to call the partial view helper inside the models (which I did in ZF1) but can't find anything on the web on how to do this. Is this possible in ZF2 or is there a better way? I've managed it before where we've had the HTML inside the models and it's been a mess. :-)

Answer 1

You can just create a template somewhere, pull the renderer from your service locator, and render away:
<?php
// this assumes you're in some AbstractActionController,
// but you could be in some service class that has the
// renderer injected, etc.
// template vars
$vars = array(/* .... */);
// create a ViewModel
$vm = new \Zend\View\Model\ViewModel($vars);
// path to your email template, compatible with your template map config.
$tpl = 'mymodule/emails/some-email-template.phtml';
$vm->setTemplate($tpl);
// get the renderer from the ServiceManager, so it's all nicely configured.
$renderer = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('Zend\View\Renderer\RendererInterface');
// render some HTML
$html = $renderer->render($vm);

Answer 2

You could do it this way:
1. In the module.config define those HTML mail content template views.
'view_manager' => array(
(...)
'template_map' => array(
'mail_content_1' => __DIR__ . '/../view/<MODULE_NAME>/mail_content_1.phtml',
),
(...)
)
2. Load the Template View in your model and get the HTML.
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;
public function getMailHTML() {
$view = new ViewModel;
$variables = array( "parm1" => "value1" );
//SET THE VARIABLES, LIKE IN PARTIALS
$view->setVariables( $variables );
//SET THE TEMPLATE VIEW KEY DEFINED IN THE module.config
$view->setTemplate( 'mail_content_1' );
//YOU'LL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO USE THE ServiceManager IN YOUR MAIL MODELS.
//RENDERING THE VIEW YOU'LL GET THE HTML
return $this->serviceManager->get( 'viewrenderer' )->render( $view );
}