3 I am getting error in sending mail.here below i have mentioned my code.
in controller file
var $components = array('RequestHandler', 'Filter','Image','Email','Captcha','RandomHelper');
then in my function i have write
$this->Email->from = $from;
$this->Email->subject = 'Approval Form: ';
$this->Email->delivery = 'debug';
$this->Email->template = 'adminemail';
$this->Email->sendAs = 'html';
$this->Email->send();
i dont want to send mail using SMTP. when i run this code the error is for missing helper file it tel me "rror: The helper file app/views/helpers/email.php can not be found or does not exist." Anyone can pls help me
Email is not a helper, it was a component in 1.3 and in 2.0 there is CakeEmail
You do not load helpers in the component property, use public $helpers = array('MyHelper');
Helpers are loaded without the "Helper" suffix in the $helpers property.
It looks like you do not have any idea of what MVC is or what the difference between helpers and components are. I suggest you to read about MVC and CakePHPs different parts like what the difference is between a component and a helper and a behavior for example.
Please refer to CakePHP 2.x Documentation about CakeMail or to the CakePHP 1.3 Documentation about the Email Core Component if you are using this version of CakePHP.
(Cake)Email has never been a Helper, Helper are for Views, Component are for Controllers, Behavior for Models.
They allow you to externalize part of the logic to reuse it somewhere else.
In Views, you can also use Elements for elements you use often.
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I have built a cakePHP3 application and I'm looking for some advice concerning the following situation. An e-mail configuration is setup as follows, to send a mail whenever a new order has been created.
public function orderCreated($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 $order, as well as perhaps having things like a standard salutation or signature.
I am a beginner and I am creating some forms to be posted into MySQL using Zend, and I am in the process of debugging but I don't really know how to debug anything using Zend. I want to submit the form and see if my custom forms are concatenating the data properly before it goes into MySQL, so I want to catch the post data to see a few things. How can I do this?
The Default route for zend framework application looks like the following
http://www.name.tld/$controller/$action/$param1/$value1/.../$paramX/$valueX
So all $_GET-Parameters simply get contenated onto the url in the above manner /param/value
Let's say you are within IndexController and indexAction() in here you call a form. Now there's possible two things happening:
You do not define a Form-Action, then you will send the form back to IndexController:indexAction()
You define a Form action via $form->setAction('/index/process') in that case you would end up at IndexController:processAction()
The way to access the Params is already defined above. Whereas $this->_getParam() equals $this->getRequest()->getParam() and $this->_getAllParams() equals $this->getRequest->getParams()
The right way yo check data of Zend Stuff is using Zend_Debug as #vascowhite has pointed out. If you want to see the final Query-String (in case you're manually building queries), then you can simply put in the insert variable into Zend_Debug::dump()
you can use $this->_getAllParams();.
For example: var_dump($this->_getAllParams()); die; will output all the parameters ZF received and halt the execution of the script. To be used in your receiving Action.
Also, $this->_getParam("param name"); will get a specific parameter from the request.
The easiest way to check variables in Zend Framework is to use Zend_Debug::dump($variable); so you can do this:-
Zend_Debug::dump($_POST);
Zend framework is built on the top of the PHP . so you can use var_dump($_POST) to check the post variables.
ZF has provided its own functions to get all the post variables.. Zend_Debug::dump($this->getRequest()->getPost())
or specifically for one variable.. you can use Zend_Debug::dump($this->getRequest()->getPost($key))
You can check post data by using zend
$request->isPost()
and for retrieving post data
$request->getPost()
For example
if ($request->isPost()) {
$postData = $request->getPost();
Zend_Debug::dump($postData );
}
I'm using a Data Mapper / Gateway design pattern.
So I have a:
Mapper;
Gateway;
Domain Object (mainly with getters and setters);
A controller;
A view.
My question is: where should I instantiate the Zend Mail ?
I believe the view is obviously out of question, and the gateway is, as well, not to be considered.
The controller should be kept clean, so:
Mapper our Domain Object ?
If our form will have some select box that will retrieve data from the database, then, perhaps the Mapper will be the most appropriate place to instantiate Zend Mail ?
Thanks
Hmmmm? Well with Zend you can configure your Zend_Mail in your bootstrap or by using the application.ini file or some other config file. That's how I configure mine right now. For dev, I'll write the mails to a file and for testing I'll do mail over an actual mail server.
I instantiate my Zend_Mail instance in a class that I call Mail_Service. This mail service class will create a Zend_Mail instance internally when it needs to send a mail and will use an existing Zend_Mail instance if one has been created and more mails need to be sent.
It has methods that will send predefined mails for me. For example,
Mail_Service->sendWelcomeEmail( $userInfo )
OR
Mail_Service->sendActivationEmail( $userInfo )
Say for example my controller gets a request to create a new user, then the over all flow of my code will be like this
//in the controller
//process form from browser somehow
UserAccountService->createNewUser( $userInfo );
/////////////////
/// Within the user account service
public function createNewUser( $userInfo )
{
$userMapper->createNewUser( $userInfo );
$preferencesMapper->createDefaultPreferencesForUser( $userInfo );
MailService->sendWelcomeEmail( $userInfo );
}
I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but this way my service have function
names that are relevant to the service and capture a whole work flow instead of being atomic operations that just forward calls to other objects.
Hope this helps.
I always keep code that sends mail in my controllers.
Model - database/business logic
View - html / presentation layer
Controller - The code that does stuff.
I am developing a website using zend framework.
i have a search form with get method. when the user clicks submit button the query string appears in the url after ? mark. but i want it to be zend like url.
is it possible?
As well as the JS approach you can do a redirect back to the preferred URL you want. I.e. let the form submit via GET, then redirect to the ZF routing style.
This is, however, overkill unless you have a really good reason to want to create neat URLs for your search queries. Generally speaking a search form should send a GET query that can be bookmarked. And there's nothing wrong with ?param=val style parameters in a URL :-)
ZF URLs are a little odd in that they force URL parameters to be part of the main URL. I.e. domain.com/controller/action/param/val/param2/val rather than domain.com/controller/action?param=val¶m2=val
This isn't always what you want, but seems to be the way frameworks are going with URL parameters
There is no obvious solution. The form generated by zf will be a standard html one. When submitted from the browser using GET it will result in a request like
/action/specified/in/form?var1=val1&var2=var2
Only solution to get a "zendlike url" (one with / instead of ? or &), would be to hack the form submission using javascript. For example you can listen for onSubmit, abort the submission and instead redirect browser to a translated url. I personally don't believe this solution is worth the added complexity, but it should perform what you're looking for.
After raging against this for a day-and-a-half, and doing my best to figure out the right way to do this fairly simple this, I gave up and did the following. I still can't believe there's not a better way.
The use case that necessitates this is a simple record listing, with a form up top for adding some filters (via GET), maybe some column sorting, and Zend_Paginate thrown in for good measure. I ran into issues using the Url view helper in my pagination partial, but I suspect with even just sorting and a filter-form, Zend_View_Helper_Url would still fall down.
But I digress. My solution was to add a method to my base controller class that merges any raw query-string parameters with the existing zend-style slashy-params, and redirects (but only if necessary). The method can be called in any action that doesn't have to handle POSTs.
Hopefully someone will find this useful. Or even better, find a better way:
/**
* Translate standard URL parameters (?foo=bar&baz=bork) to zend-style
* param (foo/bar/baz/bork). Query-string style
* values override existing route-params.
*/
public function mergeQueryString(){
if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()){
throw new Exception("mergeQueryString only works on GET requests.");
}
$q = $this->getRequest()->getQuery();
$p = $this->getRequest()->getParams();
if (empty($q)) {
//there's nothing to do.
return;
}
$action = $p['action'];
$controller = $p['controller'];
$module = $p['module'];
unset($p['action'],$p['controller'],$p['module']);
$params = array_merge($p,$q);
$this->_helper->getHelper('Redirector')
->setCode(301)
->gotoSimple(
$action,
$controller,
$module,
$params);
}
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.