Question

I’m using Zend_Mail in a Zend Framework application to send an e-mail with the contents of a web-based contact form.

The mailing itself works fine ( im using a Google Apps account ) but it can take fairly long to process ( ranging from a few seconds to nearly a minute ).

My controler action would normally redirect the visitor after sending the mail, so I thought I might be able to redirect the visitor prior to calling $mail->send() and let the script continue in the ‘background’:

So I tried the following:

$mailView = clone $this->view;
$mailView->assign('name', $form->getValue('name'));
$mailView->assign('email', $form->getValue('email'));
$mailView->assign('message', $form->getValue('message'));
$mailContent = $mailView->render('mailContact.phtml');
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->addTo('[e-mail]');
$mail->setSubject('Web Contact');
$mail->setBodyHtml($mailContent, 'UTF-8');
$this->_flashMessenger->addMessage('Thank you for your message!');
$this->_redirector->setExit(false)->gotoUrl('/about/contact');
$mail->send();

where $this->_redirector is an instance of *Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector*

This doesn’t seem to make a difference, the script is still blocked while the mail is sent after which the redirection occurs.

Perhaps I should write a Controller Plugin, would using a postDispatch() hook allow me to send the mail after the visitor has been redirected?

Suggestions are welcome!

Answer 1

Why don’t you try this:

1. Load the view
2. Call an Ajax Script
   from within the view that will load
   the controller responsible for
   sending the email.