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Sebastien

Hi all, In one of my project, I had (and wanted) to handle emails easily. I know that there is an Email class in fuel core but I read on the forum that it should have some licenses issues for the final release (http://fuelphp.com/forums/topics/view/1880#1884) and on the same thread some of you talked about SwiftMailer. So I created a small package for it. You can find it here: https://github.com/sherblot/fuel-swiftmailer (it's the first time I use Github so I hope I did it in the correct way) For the moment it's a really basic interface for SwiftMailer and you have to "hardcode" like it's written in the documentation. For example, to send an email:

public function action_sendmail() {
 //Create the Transport
 $transport = Swift_MailTransport::newInstance();

 //Create the Mailer using your created Transport
 $mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

 //Create a message
 $message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Wonderful Subject')
   ->setFrom(array('john@doe.com' => 'John Doe'))
   ->setTo(array('you@domain.com'))
   ->setBody('Here is the message itself');
   
 //Send the message
 $result = $mailer->send($message);
}

For the moment I only tried to send basic emails using MailTransport and SmtpTransport and it worked. I still have to run some tests with attachment files to be sure that there is no issue with that. The next step will be to use the config file (config/swift.php) to create some shortcuts like:

public function action_sendmail() {
 Swift::factory('default') // load the default config that set up protocol, encoding, recipient, etc.
  ->setTo(array('you@domain.com'))
  ->setSubject('Wonderful Subject')
  ->setBody('Here is the message itself')
  ->send();
 }
}

I hope it can help other people as well and if you try it, all comments are welcome. Thanks,
Sebastien

JasonJudge

I've found this very useful - thanks. The "setBody" method will set just one body for an email, which will be a text format by default. Generally I like to send text and html multipart messages. The following code, used to create the message, will allow you to add both a html and a text part:

$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Wonderful Subject') 
    ->setFrom(array('system@example.com' => 'System')) 
    ->setTo(array('john.doe@example.com' => 'John Doe')) 
    ->attach(new Swift_MimePart($email_body_text))
    ->attach(new Swift_MimePart($email_body_html, 'text/html')) ;

The two parts can be generated easily from templates:

    $email_body_text = View::forge('path/to/emailtemplatetext');
    $email_body_html = View::forge('path/to/emailtemplatehtml');

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