Mail extension

Yii 1.1 Extensions
1

All the details are here:

http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/mail/

Hope it’s of use to someone! I use it in at least three applications so far.

All comments welcome

2

Jonah, the download file is missing in google code…is there another way for us to get it?

Thanks

3

Alright, I made a download file. I was hoping people would just get it with subversion

Here it is: http://code.google.com/p/yii-mail/downloads/list

4

How it works compared to Zend_Mail?

5

Wouldn’t know, I’ve never used Zend_Mail. Is it good? I’m happy with SwiftMailer though - it’s pretty solid.

EDIT: I added an example to the extension page, even though there are more examples in the phpdoc. I did this because some people don’t care to look at the code unless they see examples first. Here it is: http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/mail/#doc

~Jonah

6

jonah

Well, yes. Zend_Mail is good enough for me. SwiftMailer wrapper looks good. Very good.

7

This is my controller’s code:




/**

	 * Creates a new model.

	 * If creation is successful, the browser will be redirected to the 'view' page.

	 */

	public function actionCreate()

	{

		$model=new Profiles;

		$user = new Users;

		// Uncomment the following line if AJAX validation is needed

		 $this->performAjaxValidation($model);


		if(isset($_POST['Profiles']))

		{

			$model->attributes=$_POST['Profiles'];

			$user->username=$model->faculty_id_no;

			$user->salt=genRandomString();

			$this->tmpPassword = genRandomString();

			$user->password=Users::encrypting($model->birthday,$user->salt);

			$user->createtime=time();

			$user->lastvisit=time();

			$user->role_id=1;

			$user->email=$model->contact_email;

			//var_dump($user->save());

			if($model->validate())	{

				if($user->save())	{

					$model->user_id=1;

					$model->user_id=$user->id;

					if($model->save())	{

						//email the new password

						$message = new YiiMailMessage;

						$message->setBody('This is test 1 for random password: '.$this->tmpPassword, 'text/html');

						$message->subject = 'System generated password test 1';

						$message->addTo($model->contact_email);

						$message->from = Yii::app()->params['adminEmail'];

						Yii::app()->mail->send($message);


						$this->redirect(array('view','id'=>$model->user_id));

					}

				}

			}

		}


		$this->render('create',array(

			'model'=>$model,

		));

	}

and in my config/main:




// autoloading model and component classes

	'import'=>array(

		'application.models.*',

		'application.components.*',	

		'application.modules.global.models.*',

		'application.extensions.debugtoolbar.*',

		'ext.mail.YiiMailMessage',

	),

        ....

'components'=>array(

        .....

         'mail' => array(

 			'class' => 'ext.mail.YiiMail',

 			'transportType' => 'php',

 			'viewPath' => 'application.views.mail',

 			'logging' => true,

 			'dryRun' => false

 		),

        ...

        )

	// application-level parameters that can be accessed

	// using Yii::app()->params['paramName']

	'params'=>array(

		// this is used in contact page

		'adminEmail'=>'mjkulet@yahoo.com',

	),

No error was produced,so I expected that I will receive the email. But none.

Kindly point out what I missed.

8

Hi,

I am a novice to Yii framework and I was trying to use your extension.

I have a little problem configuring your extension in my framework.

I want to use SMTP transport so I defined the transport type as smtp but how do I define my transport now. If i try to use


'transport'=>Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 465,'sslv')

  ->setUsername('username')

  ->setPassword('password'),

php doesnt recognizes Swift_SmtpTransport file.If i try to declare them alter in mycontroller it says YiiMail.transport is readOnly. So where and how should I declare transport and mailer variables

9

$transport is a protected property of YiiMail class, it can’t be set directly from config. Try this instead:




'transportOptions' => array(

	'host' => '...',

	'port' => '...',

	'encryption' => '..',

	'username' => '...',

	'password' => '..',

),
10

I think that Yii Applications should have a Mail component out of the box