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There is a typo here:
$this->Mailer->errorInfo; should be:
$this->Mailer->ErrorInfo;

I'm new to Cake. This article helped a lot, but can you tell me how I would go about sending a variable to the mail template (i.e. for a verification email)?

Thanks :)

function __set($name, $value)
{
$this->m->{$name) = $value;
}

should be

function __set($name, $value)
{
$this->m->{$name} = $value;
}

thanks for the example !

Anyone know how to implement this with PHP4? I'm guessing I need to use the overload() function somewhere :S

I do something like this with every function of PHPMailer I want to use, is probably not the best method but this way works in PHP5 too.

For the methods

function send()
{
return $this->m->send();
}

And for properties:

function setBody($value)
{
return $this->m->Body = $value;
}

Where do the email templates exactly go? And how do these work ?

Also there is an error on line 33.. ) should be }

Controller Class:

<?php 
vendor('phpmailer/class.phpmailer');

    class MailerComponent extends PHPMailer
    {}
?> Now its possible to use component exactly like PHPmailer object.

I can see why you'd want to setup your mailer component using the delegator pattern versus just extending the PHPMailer class: double inheritance. If you follow the pattern described in the article. then not only will your resulting component behave just like the PHPMailer class, but you'll also have access to the functions and fields in the superclass Object.

For example, I added the following snippet to my version of the MailerComponent:

Component Class:

<?php 
   var $controller;

    function startup(&$controller) {
      $this->controller = $controller;
      $this->init();
    }

    /**
     * Set the body of the email
     */
    function setBody($template, $layout = 'email') {
      $this->Body = $this->_render($template, $layout);
    }

    /**
     * Set the AltBody, like for the text in HTML+TXT emails
     */
    function setAltBody($template, $layout = 'email') {
      $this->AltBody = $this->_render($template, $layout);
    }

    function _render($template, $layout) {
      ob_start();
      $this->controller->render($template, $layout);
      return ob_get_clean();
    }


?>

Hello,

I am using your guide but ran into a problem.
The email that i receive is the raw html code.

How do I ensure that the actual html file is being sent and no t the raw code ?

Thanks.

do this before your send it:


    $this->Mailer->IsHtml(true);


Thanks for the script, mail works great. One problem though is it displays a white page afterward the email gets sent off with the same URL. It's like it is using the flash() function but it isn't. When I take out the mail code I don't run into this problem.

Do you know how I can prevent this from happening?

Component Class:

<?php 

      ob_start();
      $this->controller->render($template, $layout);
      return ob_get_clean();

?>
Is your $layout shown properly with a plain text template/layout using render as above? I've tried and the template content is correct, but no layout is shown (perhaps it would have something to do with ob_get_clean() ending the output rendering prematurely?)

Thanks a lot!

I have the same problem, after call ob_get_clean() a white page.

The class must stop the Autorender e restart after the buffer

<?php
    function _render($template,$layout) {
        ob_start();
        $this->controller->autoRender = false;
        $this->controller->render($template,$layout);
        $this->controller->autoRender = 'auto';
        $mail = ob_get_clean();
        return $mail;
    }
?>


Has anyone gotten this to work with the RC1 release?
I've gotten pretty much everything working, except one major part.
When it sends out emails, the subject and body are completely blank?

Here's my component:

Component Class:

<?php 
<?php
class MailerComponent extends Object
{
    /**
     * PHPMailer object.
     *
     * @access private
     * @var object
     */
     var $m;
     var $controller;
    /**
     * Creates the PHPMailer object and sets default values.
     * Must be called before working with the component!
     *
     * @access public
     * @return void
     */
    function init()
    {
        // Include the class file and create PHPMailer instance
        App::import('Vendor', 'PHPMailer', array('file' => 'phpmailer'.DS.'class
        $this->m = new PHPMailer;

        // Set default PHPMailer variables (see PHPMailer API for more info)
        $this->From = 'verification@aevumdecessus.com';
        $this->FromName ='Aevum Decessus Administration';
        // set more PHPMailer vars, for smtp etc.

        $this->IsSMPT();
        $this->SMTPAuth = true;
        $this->Host = 'aevumdecessus.com';
        $this->Username = 'verification';
        $this->Password = 'aS$h0l3';
     }
    function setBody($template, $layout)
    {
        $this->Body = $this->_render($template.'_html', $layout.'_html');
        $this->AltBody = $this->_render($template.'_text', $layout.'_text');
    }

    function _render($template, $layout)
    {
        ob_start();
        $this->controller->autoRender = false;
        $this->controller->render($template, $layout);
        $this->controller->autoRender = 'auto;
        return ob_get_clean();
    }
    function __set($name, $value)
    {
        $this->m->{$name} = $value;
    }

    function __get($name)
    {
        if (isset($this->m->{$name})) {
            return $this->m->{$name};
        }
    }

    function __call($method, $args)
    {
        if (method_exists($this->m, $method)) {
            return call_user_func_array(array($this->m, $method), $args);
        }
    }
}
?>
?>
and my controller:

Controller Class:

<?php 
                                $this->User->set($this->data);
                                $this->Mailer->controller = &$this;
                                $this->Mailer->init();
                                $this->set('token', $this->data['User']['email_token']);
                                $emails = $this->data['User']['email'];
                                $this->Mailer->AddAddress($emails);
                                $this->Mailer->Suject = 'Please Validate your account';
                                $this->Mailer->setBody('/email/validation', 'email');
                                if ($this->Mailer->send())
                                {
                                $errors = $this->Mailer->ErrorInfo;
                                //$this->User->save();
                                }
                                else
                                $errors = 'Error Sending: '.$this->Mailer->ErrorInfo;
                                $this->set('errors', $errors);
?>

Hi there,

For those of you whom have been having the rendering issue with the blank emails going through due to a glitch somewhere with the output buffering, please have a look at my code below.

function getBody() {
    $temp_layout = $this -> controller -> layout;
    $this -> controller -> layout = '';
    
    ob_start();
    $this -> controller -> autoRender = false;
    
    App::import('Core', array('View'));
    $viewClass = new View($this -> controller);
    $this -> template = $viewClass -> _getViewFileName($this -> template);
    $content = $viewClass -> _render($this -> template, $this -> data);
    echo $viewClass -> renderLayout($content, 'email');
    
    $this -> controller -> autoRender = 'auto';
    $body = ob_get_clean();
    
    $this -> controller -> layout = $temp_layout;
    
    return $body;
}
It might not be the right way to solve the issue but at least it works fine. I'm in a hurry to get my site fixed right now, but might digg in a bit more later on in order to pinpoint the actual issue.

All the best,
Antonie

Antonie's solution above worked great. However I wasn't sure what the $this->data variable represented in his _render() call. Since getBody is located in my MailerComponent, $this->data was undefined resulting in an error.

I replaced $this->data with $this->controller->viewVars to effectively gain access to any view variables in my email layout.

Works great, thanks for all the good posts!

I have the RC3 running (1.2)
but no matter what i do, it does not work

either i get a plain text result like this:
(sent by mail):

From: MyName Message-ID: <5bb25ffb38af3456dae5a4887d3bda5c@....de> X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer (phpmailer.codeworxtech.com) [version 2.3] MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

or some error error trying to get some template to work:

Indirect modification of overloaded property MailerComponent::$controller has no effect

etc..

has anybody a full working phpmailer component running?
maybe even with some example calls
would be very helpful
thx