Hello everyone!
After the user filled in information in a form (that is associated with a database table), all the information should be sent to my gmail that I’ve set inside config file main.php
'params'=>array(
// this is used in contact page
'adminEmail'=>'my_real_email@gmail.com',
),
It obvious to take a look at the actionContact of SiteController that is automatically generated by using gii.
Here is the actionContact of SiteController.
public function actionContact()
{
$model=new ContactForm;
if(isset($_POST['ContactForm']))
{
$model->attributes=$_POST['ContactForm'];
if($model->validate())
{
$name='=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($model->name).'?=';
$subject='=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($model->subject).'?=';
$headers="From: $name <{$model->email}>\r\n".
"Reply-To: {$model->email}\r\n".
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n".
"Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8";
mail(Yii::app()->params['adminEmail'],$subject,$model->body,$headers);
Yii::app()->user->setFlash('contact','Thank you for contacting us. We will respond to you as soon as possible.');
$this->refresh();
}
}
$this->render('contact',array('model'=>$model));
}
Look into the code I think the body text ($model->body) should be sent to params[‘adminEmail’] (in this case this is my_real_email@gmail.com). And the sender is $model->email that the user filled in when submitting the ContactForm. Usually to send an email we should give an email adress and corresponding password and with the help of an Email client like Outlook Express. I don’t see anything like that inside the code. I’ve searched around internet and sounds like I have to install an email server. I’m using XAMPP for my localhost, so I’ve already got Mercury mail server. Should I use that mail server for my localhost? How could I config my Yii code to achieve my goal. In the future I’m going to load my project to a web server so I think they have an email server working together with the web host server.
Thank you for reading my post and hope to see your replies or suggestions.
Cheers!
