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Sending E-Mails

Creating an E-Mail

An e-mail that is created and sent by the OroPlatform is centered around the Email model class which reflects all the properties of an e-mail.

There are two ways to create a new e-mail:

  1. Manually create an e-mail.
  2. Use the e-mail builder class.

Manually Creating an E-Mail

You can manually create an e-mail by creating a new instance of the Email model class and call the setter methods for all the properties you want to be set:

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// src/Acme/DemoBundle/Controller/EmailController.php
namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Controller;

use Oro\Bundle\EmailBundle\Form\Model\Email;
use Oro\Bundle\EmailBundle\Form\Model\EmailAttachment;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

class EmailController extends Controller
{
    public function sendMailAction()
    {
        $email = new Email();

        // the sender
        $email->setFrom('chris@example.com');

        // recipient(s)
        $email->setTo(array('alice@example.com', 'bob@example.com'));

        // CC recipient(s)
        $email->setCc(array('dave@example.com', 'eric@example.com'));

        // BCC recipient(s)
        $email->setBcc(array('ryan@example.com', 'jonathan@example.com'));

        // the subject
        $email->setSubject(...);

        // a template to create the e-mail body, the passed template
        // must be an instance of Oro\Bundle\EmailBundle\Entity\EmailTemplate
        $email->setTemplate(...);

        // a context that will be passed to the template set with setTemplate()
        $email->setContexts(array(...));

        // the e-mail type (either html or text)
        $email->setType(...);

        // as an alternative to using a template (see above) you can also
        // directly set the e-mail body
        $email->setBody(...);

        // e-mail attachments (instances of  Oro\Bundle\EmailBundle\Form\Model\EmailAttachment
        $email->addAttachment($attachment);

        // ...
    }
}

The EmailModelBuilder Class

An alternative approach to manually creating Email models is to use the EmailModelBuilder helper class which offers several methods to create new e-mails based on existing data:

createEmailModel()
Create a new e-mail or add missing data to an existing e-mail.
createReplyEmailModel()
Create an e-mail that is a response to an existing e-mail.
createReplyAllEmailModel()
Create an e-mail that is a response to all recipients and the sender of an existing e-mail.
createForwardEmailModel()
Create a new e-mail that forwards an existing e-mail.

After e-mails have been processed (see below), they will be persisted to the database. You can create an e-mail model based on such a persisted entity, by using the useful EmailModelBuilder helper class:

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// src/Acme/DemoBundle/Controller/EmailController.php
namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

class EmailController extends Controller
{
    public function sendMailAction()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Sending the Mail

When you created your e-mail model, you can use the integrated mailer processor which is responsible for sending the e-mail and persisting it to the database (which also creates the needed contexts to customers, users, and so on):

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// src/Acme/DemoBundle/Controller/EmailController.php
namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Controller;

// ...

class EmailController extends Controller
{
    public function sendMailAction()
    {
        // ...
        $email = ...;

        $processor = $this->get('oro_email.mailer.processor');
        $processor->process($email);
    }
}

When calling the process() the mailer processor performs the following steps:

  1. It creates a new \Swift_Message instance and populate it with the data from your Email object.
  2. If you did not pass an EmailOrigin object which should be used to associate the mail in the user interface with, the processor will create on based on the sender address and the selected organization.
  3. The e-mail will be sent based on your application’s SwiftMailer configuration (if the current user configured a custom SMTP server in their settings, the configured server will be used instead).
  4. The sent e-mail is persisted to the database storing all necessary information to be able to view it again in the future through the user interface.
  5. All the persisted data is returned as an instance of the EmailUser.

E-Mail Notifications

Sometimes you want to receive e-mails when entities of a particular class are written to the database. To achieve this the OroPlatform comes with the NotificationBundle. This bundle registers an event listener that is executed whenever a Doctrine entity is created, updated or removed.

To be notified by such an event, you have to create an EmailNotification that contains all the necessary information. The easiest way to register a new EmailNotification is to create data fixtures:

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// src/Acme/DemoBundle/Migrations/Data/ORM/CreateCommentNotification.php
namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Migrations\Data\ORM;

use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture;
use Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use Oro\Bundle\NotificationBundle\Entity\EmailNotification;
use Oro\Bundle\NotificationBundle\Entity\RecipientList;

class CreateCommentNotification extends AbstractFixture
{
    public function load(ObjectManager $manager)
    {
        $notification = new EmailNotification();

        // the FQCN of the entity
        $notification->setEntityName('Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Comment');

        // the event to be notified of, pre-defined event names are
        // oro.notification.event.entity_post_update, oro.notification.event.entity_post_remove
        // and oro.notification.event.entity_post_persist
        $eventRepository = $manager->getRepository('Oro\Bundle\NotificationBundle\Entity\Event');
        $event = $eventRepository->findOneByName('oro.notification.event.entity_post_persist');
        $notification->setEvent($event);

        // recipients must be an instance of Oro\Bundle\NotificationBundle\Entity\RecipientList
        // which represents a collection of recipients, each recipient can either be an e-mail
        // address, a User object, or a Group object
        $recipients = new RecipientList();
        $groupRepository = $manager->getRepository('Oro\Bundle\UserBundle\Entity\Group');
        $group = $groupRepository->findOneByName('Moderator');
        $recipients->addGroup($group);

        $notification->setRecipientList($recipients);

        // the EmailTemplate that is used to render the e-mail body
        $emailTemplateRepository = $manager->getRepository('Oro\Bundle\EmailBundle\Entity\EmailTemplate');
        $template = $emailTemplateRepository->findByName('comment_created_notification');
        $notification->setTemplate($template);

        $manager->persist($notification);
        $manager->flush();
    }
}
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