Question

I’m trying to send an email from AppController in my CakePHP 2.0 app. It works fine if I send it from the PagesController, but I need to be able to send from AppController as well.

I have:

function sendSystemEmail($to = EMAIL_CONTACT, $from = EMAIL_FROM, $subject = null, $body = null, $view = null, $vars = null) {
    App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
    $email = new CakeEmail();
    $email->viewVars(array(
            'body' => $body,
            'vars' => $vars
    ));
    $email->template($view)
            ->emailFormat('html')
            ->from($from)
            ->to($to)
            ->subject($subject)
            ->send();
    return;
}

When I use this, I don’t get any errors, but the email doesn’t arrive. I can’t see that there’s any different between this and the code I have in PagesController, so I’m assuming that there’s something that AppController doesn’t have access to maybe? I can’t figure out what though!

Answer 1

Sharon, you’re not putting the configuration method.. this parameter can put in the constructor of classEmail too, this way..

$email = new CakeEmail('pop3'); //can be smtp or the protocole you are using..

or

$email->config('pop3')

and you need to define the connection here..
./app/Config/email.php

class EmailConfig {

    public $pop3 = array(
        'transport' => 'Mail',
        'from' => 'you@localhost',
        //'charset' => 'utf-8',
        //'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
    );