Question

I’m trying out CakeEmail and I am having a problem.
I added the code into my add function, similar to the blog tutorial’s add function, but when I add an item it says undefined variable. If I remove the email code, it works, if I leave it in and refresh the page the item shows up but no email.

Here is the code from the function:

public function add()
    {
        $this->set('isAddValid', false);
        $this->set('addValidationErrors', false);

        if ($this->request->is('post'))
        {
            // If the save is successful, close the dialog and display the success message
            // Else, set the error flags.
            if ($this->LocalClock->save($this->request->data))
            {
                $this->set('localClocks', $this->request->data);
                $this->LocalClock->save($localClocks);
                $this->set('isAddValid', true);
                $this->set('addValidationErrors', false);

                $email = new CakeEmail('smtp');
                $email->from(array('[e-mail]' => 'Local Clocks'));
                $email->to('[e-mail]');
                $email->subject('New Local Clock Added');
                $email->send('A new local clock has been added.');
                CakeEmail::deliver('[e-mail]', 'New local Clock', 'New Local Clock Added',
                    array('from' => 'localhost@localhost'));
            }
        }

Here is the email.php file in the config folder (i just copied an pasted it from the default file they had in there):

class EmailConfig {
    public $default = array(
        'transport' => 'Mail',
        'from' => 'you@localhost',
        //'charset' => 'utf-8',
        //'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
    );

    public $smtp = array(
        'transport' => 'Smtp',
        'from' => array('site@localhost' => 'My Site'),
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'port' => 25,
        'timeout' => 30,
        'username' => 'user',
        'password' => 'secret',
        'client' => null,
        'log' => false,
        //'charset' => 'utf-8',
        //'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
    );

    public $fast = array(
        'from' => 'you@localhost',
        'sender' => null,
        'to' => null,
        'cc' => null,
        'bcc' => null,
        'replyTo' => null,
        'readReceipt' => null,
        'returnPath' => null,
        'messageId' => true,
        'subject' => null,
        'message' => null,
        'headers' => null,
        'viewRender' => null,
        'template' => false,
        'layout' => false,
        'viewVars' => null,
        'attachments' => null,
        'emailFormat' => null,
        'transport' => 'Smtp',
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'port' => 25,
        'timeout' => 30,
        'username' => 'user',
        'password' => 'secret',
        'client' => null,
        'log' => true,
        //'charset' => 'utf-8',
        //'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
    );
}

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Answer 1

I found out that the answer required me to add another setting to the email.php file.

I created a gmail account so I can use the email feature.

The code is pretty simple:

public $gmail = array(
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'port' => 465,
        'username' => '[e-mail]',
        'password' => 'password',
        'transport' => 'Smtp',
        'timeout' => 1
    );

And in the add() function:

$email = new CakeEmail('gmail');