Question

I’m building a CakePHP website that sends an e-mail like this:

$email = new CakeEmail('default');
$email->template('test');
$email->emailFormat('html');
$email->to(array('[e-mail]' => 'John Doe'));
$email->subject('Test E-mail');
$email->helpers(array('Html', 'Text'));
$email->viewVars(
    array(
        ...
    )
);

if ($email->send()) {
    $this->Session->setFlash('The e-mail was sent!', 'default', array('class' => 'alert alert-success'));
}
else {
    $this->Session->setFlash('An unexpected error occurred while sending the e-mail.', 'default', array('class' => 'alert alert-error'));
}

I’d like to be able to capture the HTML rendered by the e-mail in a variable in addition to actually sending the e-mail. This way, I can record in the database the exact content of the e-mail’s body. Is this doable?

Answer 1

Per line 50 of the MailTransport class, it appears the actual send() function returns the message and the header. So instead of:

if($email->send()) {

Try:

$mySend = $email->send();
if($mySend) {
    //...

Then, $mySend should be an array:

array('headers' => $headers, 'message' => $message);