I am trying to send mail using mail templates. To do this I want to load a .tpl into a variable. Instead of loading an HTML file and substituting placeholders, I wonder if it is possible to set values of the view in the controller, and then load this view into a variable. This way I would have a variable containing the HTML mail filled out with the information set in the controller prior to loading the view.
Any alternatives are also welcome, I mean, if there are already ways of doing mail templating in a more standardized way.
A great idea Erik, and I've done this many times.
Zend_View is really just a templating system, and can be used to generate anything, not just HTML.
Sample code - create a view, assign some data, render the view and send the mail!
$view = $this->getHelper('ViewRenderer')->view;
$view->email = $data['email'];
$view->password = $data['password'];
$text = $view->render('mail/new-user.php');
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->addTo($data['email'], $data['forename'] . ' ' . $data['lastname']);
$mail->setSubject('Account Details');
$mail->setBodyText($text, 'utf-8');
$mail->send();
In the first line I retrieve the ViewRenderer's view so I have access to the normal script paths. You can create a new Zend_View object, but you'll need to add the path to your view scripts manually.
In my example text based content is generated, but you could generate HTML all the same.
Sorry guys (and girls). My google skills must have noticed it was early in the morning. I found what I was looking for here:
http://myzendframeworkexperience.blogspot.com/2008/09/sending-mails-with-templates.html
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I have working with Fuelphp and done some tiny apps, Now i am moving to bigger one, now i am stuck with this.
I have enabled theme in fuelphp and it is working perfectly, In my App there is a Top Nav bar, In Nav bar there is 3 drop down notification system like facebook & also search option. So i have created top_nav partial. I want to make the search and notification system in partial inside partial, to making it more modular, so i created another partial of top_nav_search and top_nav_notif . Both partials need some variables to transfer from controller, How i do that. My variables are passing to top_nav only. Not top_nav_search or top_nav_notif.
How can i add partial inside the partial.
Answer Found:
using View Class will not work with theme. It will search for APP/View folder.
we have to use
echo Theme::instance()->view('partials/partial_file')->set_safe('var', $this->get('var'));
found working
You can use set_global on your view, and then the exposed variable will be available everywhere.
$view->set_global('some_data', $some_data);
// instead of
$view->some_data = $some_data;
Also, when using set_partial, you can specify a View instance instead of the path for the view. That way you can pass variables directly into the View instance specified to set_partial. Though I'm not sure it solves your problem. Still, here's an example:
$view = View::forge('nav/search');
$view->some_data = $some_data;
$theme->set_partial('top_nav_search', $view);
Edit: I wrote View::forge, but more appropriate would've been to write $theme->view in this example. Like this:
$view = $theme->view('nav/search');
$view->some_data = $some_data;
$theme->set_partial('top_nav_search', $view);
I don't really know how to word the title well, but here's my issue. I decided instead of having 25 controllers to handle pages, I have one PageController with a viewAction that takes in a :page parameter - for example, http://localhost/website/page/about-us would direct to PageController::viewAction() with a parameter of page = about-us. All of the pages are stored in a templates folder, so the viewrenderer is set to render application\templates\default\about-us.phtml.
I did this so I can consolidate and it seemed like a better approach. My question is the following: lets say when the page request is contact-us, I would need a Zend_Form to be used within the contact page. So, I would need a way within PageController::viewAction() to recognize that the page needs to have a form built, build the form, and also upon submission the need to process it (maybe this should be handled in an abstract process method - not sure).
I have no idea how to implement this. I thought maybe I can store a column with the name of a form and a connecting page identifier. Even better, create a one-to-many page to forms, and then in the submission loop through the forms and check if submitted and if so then process it (maybe there is a isSubmitted() method within zend_form. I really don't know how to handle this, and am looking for any help i can get.
Thanks!
Here is something that came to mind that may work or help point you in a direction that works for you.
This may only work well assuming you were to have no more than one form per page, if you need more than one form on a page, you would have to do something beyond this automatic form handling.
Create a standard location for forms that are attached to pages (e.g. application/forms/page). This is where the automatic forms associated with pages will be kept.
In your viewAction, you could take advantage of the autoloader to see if a form for that page exists. For example:
$page = $this->getParam('page');
$page = ucfirst(preg_replace('/-(\w)/ie', "strtoupper('$1')", $page)); // contact-us -> ContactUs
$class = 'Application_Form_Page_' . $page;
// class_exists will invoke the autoloader to map a class to a file
if (class_exists($class)) {
// a form is defined for this page
$form = new $class();
// check if form was posted
if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
if ($form->isValid($this->getRequest()->getPost()) {
// form is valid - determine how to process it
}
}
// assign the form to the view
$this->view->pageForm = $form;
}
All this really leaves out is the action you take to process a specific form. Since the contact form will likely generate an email, and another form may insert data into a database, you will need some sort of callback system or perhaps another class that can be mapped automatically which contains the form processor code.
Anyway something along those lines is what came to mind first, I hope that helps give you some more ideas.
I have created a new content type called protocol. The problem is that when you define a content type that means you also say how in the form the content is to be added and edited, like which form elements there will be.
A protocol is a content type that stores a title, an abstract and instructions. I want to add the title/instructions/abstract through one textarea where you tag the parts of the text like this:
[title]This is a title[/title] [abstract]This is an abstract. [/abstract][instructions]And these are my instructions.[/instructions]
That text is then processed and the content between each tag can be picked out and stored in a variable which should then be stored for the content type just like it had been added through a seperate field/textarea in a add/edit content form.
Is this possible to do? What kind of things should I read up on? Where in the drupal code are the function/functions that describes what happens when you push "Save" for a new content type for the standard add content form?(I just want to read it, not change anything)
Not sure this exactly matches what you're trying to do, but in a basic sense it should get you towards your goal. I wrote a module called endorse for Drupal 6 that provides a custom form feeding the submitted values into a new node:
http://drupal.org/project/endorse
Here's the form definition:
http://drupalcode.org/project/endorse.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/endorse.module#l136
Some basic validation follows and then the actual node save occurs at the top of the submit function, here up to line 231:
http://drupalcode.org/project/endorse.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/endorse.module#l206
The rest in that function is irrelevant except for the thank you and redirect at the very end of the submit function. If you're doing this in D7, it'll change a bit (see api.drupal.org for function definitions and whatnot), but it should look more or les the same.
Steps to solve your problem.
Create a module. Implement hook_menu with your custom add page.
Create a custom form using FORM API that it's gonna be displayed in your new page.
In your hook_form_submit get your values from the variable form state.
Parse the text and create and save a new node (snippet here).
$newNode = (object) NULL;
$newNode->type = 'protocol';
$newNode->title = $parsed_title;
$newNode->uid = 1;
$newNode->created = strtotime("now");
$newNode->changed = strtotime("now");
$newNode->status = 1;
$newNode->comment = 0;
$newNode->promote = 0;
$newNode->moderate = 0;
$newNode->sticky = 0;
// add CCK field data
$newNode->field_{YOUR_CUSTOM_FIELD_1}[0]['value'] = $parsed_data1;
$newNode->field_{YOUR_CUSTOM_FIELD_2}[0]['value'] = $parsed_data2;
// save node
node_save($newNode);
Those are the basic steps. If you have any more questions please ask.
TIP: Install the Devel module and use the function dpm() when you need to know the contents of some variable. You are probably gonna need it when you are implementing hook_form_validate or hook_form_submit for knowing the contents in the variable $form_state.
So just do:
dpm($form_state); //this will give you the variables inside the array with a krumo view.
I have a need to create a <br/> tag in the display label for a menu item generated using Zend_navigation, but don't seem to be able to find a way to do so.
My navigation item is defined in the XML config as:
<registermachine>
<label>Register your Slitter Rewinder</label>
<controller>service</controller>
<action>register</action>
<route>default</route>
</registermachine>
I want to force a tag in the output HTML between 'your' and 'slitter', such that it appears on two line as below:
Register your
Slitter Rewinder
However, I can't seem to do it. obviously using in the XML breaks parsing, and using html entities means that the lable is displayed as:
Register your <br/>Slitter Rewinder
Has anyone had experience of this that can offer advice?
Thanks in advance!
there is no such option built-in you have to use a partial
$partial = array('menu.phtml', 'default');
$this->navigation()->menu()->setPartial($partial);
echo $this->navigation()->menu()->render();
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.helpers.html#zend.view.helpers.initial.navigation.menu
you may also try a hack with <label><![CDATA[Menu label<br/>Second line]]></label>
I found a (hacky) solution:
I updated my navigation.xml to use {br} tokens wherever a <br/> tag is required, and then amended the base Zend/View/Helper/Navigation/Menu.php file as follows:
within htmlify function, changed
$this->view->escape($label)
to
str_replace("{br}", "<br/>", $label)
I could (and probably will) override the Zend Library Menu View Helper with my own at some point, but this at least cover it for now.
there is a escapeLabels boolean used to convert html tags and it's true by default.
You can set your navigation like this
$this->navigation()
->menu()
->escapeLabels(false)
->...
http://framework.zend.com/apidoc/2.0/classes/Zend.View.Helper.Navigation.Menu.html#escapeLabels
I am having a few problems with Dojo Filtering Selects when using the Zend Framework Forms and need some help to find out what I have missed as this is driving me mad.
I am currently getting this errors in firebug:
dojo.data is undefined
dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore is not a constructor
Below is the code that I am using to create the filter select and provide the json data to the calling controller.
Zend_Form Element (Dojo Enabled)
$industry = new Zend_Dojo_Form_Element_FilteringSelect('industry');
$industry->setAutocomplete(true)
->setStoreId('industrystore')
->setStoreType('dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore')
->setStoreParams(array('url' => $baseUrl.'/dojo/industry'))
->setAttrib("searchAttr", "title")
->setRequired(true)
->removeDecorator('DtDdWrapper')
->removeDecorator('label')
->removeDecorator('HtmlTag');
Dojo Controller
public function industryAction(){
$db = Zend_Db::factory($this->config->database);
$result = $db->fetchAll("SELECT * FROM industries");
$data = new Zend_Dojo_Data('industryid', $result);
$this->_helper->autoCompleteDojo($data);
$db->closeConnection();
}
The annoying thing is all my other Dojo elements on this form and other forms work well it is just whenever I do Filtering Selects that I hit these problems, and this problem causes all the other elements in a form to fail too.
Thanks in advance.
The problem is actually with how Zend Framework initializes the dijits and data stores before the toolkit is fully loaded, in this case specifically the methods assigning the store to the dijit. I ran into this issue as well and found the best way to work around the issues was to either pass the data store from the controller to a JavaScript variable defined in the view or do what your did with a specific autocomplete action. Based on your example I would make the following changes.
In your form I would simplify the element:
$industry = new Zend_Dojo_Form_Element_FilteringSelect('industry');
$industry->setAutocomplete(true)
->setRequired(true)
->removeDecorator('DtDdWrapper')
->removeDecorator('label')
->removeDecorator('HtmlTag');
In your view you want to connect the store to your dijit and make sure that you have loaded the dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore module:
<?php $this->dojo()->onLoadCaptureStart()?>
function(){
dijit.byId('industry').store = new dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore({ url: '/controller/industry' });
}
<?php
$this->dojo()->onLoadCaptureEnd();
$this->dojo()->requireModule('dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore');
?>
As I mentioned I ran into a similar issue which I answered here . Another issue I discovered is that the data store does not like dealing with labels declared anything other than "name" for the label declaration in the Zend_Dojo_Data.