Automatic e-mail sender

Yii 1.1 Extensions
1

Can you please help me, I’m currently working on a Scholarship Tracking System and our client wants us to have a automatic e-mail sender in the system. Our problem is how are we going to do that. Any suggestions?

2

Well it depends on what you mean by automatic… There is a bunch of mailing extensions over here in addition to the php mail function.

3

check out yii-mail its pretty good

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

4

Yes, agree with bennouna - please clarify your requirements.

On the last project I used modified version of http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/simplemailer with my own Swift Mailer implementation (instead of mail() function in that extension) in conjunction with Observer class (which handles events that require email-sending jobs) and like this approach so far.

5

Our client wanted us to create a function that will automatically send e-mail to them when the sponsored child’s scholarship will end. This is the example that our client provided:

After counting 10 months, his/her sponsorship will expire on March 2012.

We must therefore receive an automatic e-mail reminder by the end of January 2012 that the sponsorship of this particular child will expire on March 2012.

Sample e-mail text: “This is to inform you that the sponsorship of ______ will soon expire on March 2012.”

Once we receive this e-mail reminder, we will contact the sponsor ASAP.

If sponsor decides to renew the sponsorship, then the 10-month countdown begins on June 2012 (we exclude April and May).

The next time we will receive another e-mail reminder for this child will be on March 2013.

6

Use one of the mail extensions as suggested.

Create a console app and a cronjob that runs it daily. In your console app, search the DB for records expiring and build your email template for any that meet your rules.

7

Can you please give me some other options? Our project is hosted by our professor, I don’t know how will I deal with him about the console app.