How do I send a cfm file as the body of an e-mail using ColdFusion? - email

Question

I have a legacy application where an email.cfm file is used with a cfmail tag to send e-mail:
<cfmail from="abc#123.com" to="def#456.com" subject="New e-mail!">
// lots of HTML
</cfmail>
Now I'd like to update it for ColdFusion Model Glue 3. I want to send it using a mail object in the controller, and include in the body a CFM page:
var mail = new mail();
mail.setFrom("abc#123.com");
mail.setTo("def#456.com");
mail.setSubject("New e-mail!");
mail.setBody( ** SOME CFM FILE ** );
mail.send();
Does anybody have any idea how I can do this?

Answer 1

You can render the content you want to email in a cfsavecontent block and then use that in the email, like:
<cfsavecontent variable="myemail">
...add some HTML, include another file, whatever...
</cfsavecontent>
<cfscript>
mail.setBody( myemail );
</cfscript>
See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7d57.html

Answer 2

Call the CFC assigning it to a variable, like cfset request.emaiBody = cfc.function(). Then just put it in your setBody tag.

Answer 3

OP was convinced to use CFML, but to answer the question as it was initially asked:
var mail = new Mail();
mail.setFrom("abc#123.com");
mail.setTo("def#456.com");
mail.setSubject("New e-mail!");
mail.setType("html");
savecontent variable="mailBody" {
include "email.cfm";
}
mail.setBody(mailBody);
mail.send();

Answer 4

I ended up following Henry's advice in the comments and created a CFML-based CFC:
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="SendMail">
<cfargument name="from"/>
<cfargument name="to"/>
<cfargument name="subject"/>
<cfmail from="#from#" to="#to#" subject="#subject#">
<!--- HTML for e-mail body here --->
</cfmail>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
Dave Long's suggestion is also good, which is to create components using <cfcomponent>, then wrapping the code in <cfscript> tags. This gives you the ability to fall back to CFML in case the there is no cfscript equivalent or it's easier to do with CFML:
<cfcomponent>
<cfscript>
void function GetData()
{
RunDbQuery();
}
</cfscript>
<cffunction name="RunDbQuery">
<cfquery name="data">
SELECT * FROM ABC;
</cfquery>
<cfreturn data>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>