Question

I need to email all my users a daily product list in cakePHP 2.

I have the following code to get all the users emails.

$users = $this->User->find('all', array('fields' => array('email')));
foreach ($users as $user) {
    $this->Email->reset();
    $this->Email->from     = '<[e-mail]>';
    $this->Email->to       =  $user['email'];
    $this->Email->subject  =  "Daily Products" ;
    $this->Email->sendAs   = 'html';
    $this->Email->send();
}

Now I understand that I could use a html template for this and parse values to it but I really need a foreach loop inside the actual view itself and send the table of products.

What would be the best practise? cakePHP code in the controller or view to get the products?

Thanks

Answer 1

The “view” for e-mails is actually an element. It’s under Views/Elements/email. There are 2 folders there html and text, both meant to hold their respective templates.

You can do your foreach in there, then make sure to set the layout in your controller with:

$this->Email->sendAs = 'html'; // Can also be 'text' or 'both' (for multipart).
$this->Email->layout = 'foo'; // Would include Views/Elements/email/html/foo.ctp

Although the Email component is deprecated since CakePHP 2.0 and you should be using the CakeEmail component instead. See the book for more details on how to use that.