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Classes

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Class Email

Class to support sending emails.

Object
Extended by ViewableData implements IteratorAggregate
Extended by Email

Direct known subclasses

Member_ChangePasswordEmail, Member_ForgotPasswordEmail, Member_SignupEmail

Package: sapphire\email
Located at sapphire/email/Email.php

Methods summary

public static
# set_mailer( Mailer $mailer )

This can be used to provide a mailer class other than the default, e.g. for testing.

This can be used to provide a mailer class other than the default, e.g. for testing.

Parameters

$mailer
Mailer
$mailer
public static Mailer
# mailer( )

Get the mailer.

Get the mailer.

Returns

Mailer
public
# __construct( mixed $from = null, mixed $to = null, mixed $subject = null, mixed $body = null, mixed $bounceHandlerURL = null, mixed $cc = null, mixed $bcc = null )

Create a new email.

Create a new email.

Overrides

Object::__construct
public
# attachFileFromString( mixed $data, mixed $filename, mixed $mimetype = null )
public
# setBounceHandlerURL( mixed $bounceHandlerURL )
public
# attachFile( mixed $filename, mixed $attachedFilename = null, mixed $mimetype = null )
public
# Subject( )
public
# Body( )
public
# To( )
public
# From( )
public
# Cc( )
public
# Bcc( )
public
# setSubject( mixed $val )
public
# setBody( mixed $val )
public
# setTo( mixed $val )
public
# setFrom( mixed $val )
public
# setCc( mixed $val )
public
# setBcc( mixed $val )
public
# replyTo( string $email )

Set the "Reply-To" header with an email address.

Set the "Reply-To" header with an email address.

Parameters

$email
string
$email The email address of the "Reply-To" header
public
# addCustomHeader( string $headerName, string $headerValue )

Add a custom header to this value. Useful for implementing all those cool features that we didn't think of.

Add a custom header to this value. Useful for implementing all those cool features that we didn't think of.

Parameters

$headerName
string
$headerName
$headerValue
string
$headerValue
public
# BaseURL( )
public
# debug( )

Debugging help

Debugging help

public
# setTemplate( string $template )

Set template name (without *.ss extension).

Set template name (without *.ss extension).

Parameters

$template
string
$template
public string
# getTemplate( )

Returns

string
protected
# templateData( )
public
# IsEmail( )

Used by SSViewer templates to detect if we're rendering an email template rather than a page template

Used by SSViewer templates to detect if we're rendering an email template rather than a page template

public
# populateTemplate( mixed $data )

Populate this email template with values. This may be called many times.

Populate this email template with values. This may be called many times.

protected
# parseVariables( mixed $isPlain = false )

Load all the template variables into the internal variables, including the template into body. Called before send() or debugSend() $isPlain=true will cause the template to be ignored, otherwise the GenericEmail template will be used and it won't be plain email :)

Load all the template variables into the internal variables, including the template into body. Called before send() or debugSend() $isPlain=true will cause the template to be ignored, otherwise the GenericEmail template will be used and it won't be plain email :)

public static
# validEmailAddress( mixed $address )

Desc

Validates the email address. Returns true of false
public boolean
# sendPlain( string $messageID = null )

Send the email in plaintext.

Send the email in plaintext.

Parameters

$messageID
string
$messageID Optional message ID so the message can be identified in bounces etc.

Returns

boolean
Success of the sending operation from an MTA perspective. Doesn't actually give any indication if the mail has been delivered to the recipient properly)

See

send() for sending emails with HTML content.

Uses

Mailer::sendPlain()
public boolean
# send( string $messageID = null )

Send an email with HTML content.

Send an email with HTML content.

Parameters

$messageID
string
$messageID Optional message ID so the message can be identified in bounces etc.

Returns

boolean
Success of the sending operation from an MTA perspective. Doesn't actually give any indication if the mail has been delivered to the recipient properly)

See

sendPlain() for sending plaintext emails only.

Uses

Mailer::sendHTML()
public static
# setAdminEmail( string $newEmail )

Used as a default sender address in the Email class unless overwritten. Also shown to users on live environments as a contact address on system error pages.

Used as a default sender address in the Email class unless overwritten. Also shown to users on live environments as a contact address on system error pages.

Used by Email->send(), Email->sendPlain(), Debug->friendlyError().

Parameters

$newEmail
string
$newEmail
public static string
# getAdminEmail( )

Returns

string
public static
# send_all_emails_to( mixed $emailAddress )

Send every email generated by the Email class to the given address. It will also add " [addressed to (email), cc to (email), bcc to (email)]" to the end of the subject line This can be used when testing, by putting a command like this in your _config.php file

Send every email generated by the Email class to the given address. It will also add " [addressed to (email), cc to (email), bcc to (email)]" to the end of the subject line This can be used when testing, by putting a command like this in your _config.php file

if(!Director::isLive()) Email::send_all_emails_to("someone@example.com")

public static
# cc_all_emails_to( mixed $emailAddress )

CC every email generated by the Email class to the given address. It won't affect the original delivery in the same way that send_all_emails_to does. It just adds a CC header with the given email address. Note that you can only call this once - subsequent calls will overwrite the configuration variable.

CC every email generated by the Email class to the given address. It won't affect the original delivery in the same way that send_all_emails_to does. It just adds a CC header with the given email address. Note that you can only call this once - subsequent calls will overwrite the configuration variable.

This can be used when you have a system that relies heavily on email and you want someone to be checking all correspondence.

if(Director::isLive()) Email::cc_all_emails_to("supportperson@example.com")

public static
# bcc_all_emails_to( mixed $emailAddress )

BCC every email generated by the Email class to the given address. It won't affect the original delivery in the same way that send_all_emails_to does. It just adds a BCC header with the given email address. Note that you can only call this once - subsequent calls will overwrite the configuration variable.

BCC every email generated by the Email class to the given address. It won't affect the original delivery in the same way that send_all_emails_to does. It just adds a BCC header with the given email address. Note that you can only call this once - subsequent calls will overwrite the configuration variable.

This can be used when you have a system that relies heavily on email and you want someone to be checking all correspondence.

if(Director::isLive()) Email::cc_all_emails_to("supportperson@example.com")

public boolean
# is_valid_address( string $email )

Checks for RFC822-valid email format.

Checks for RFC822-valid email format.

Parameters

$email
string
$str

Returns

boolean

Copyright

Cal Henderson <cal@iamcal.com> This code is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

See

http://code.iamcal.com/php/rfc822/rfc822.phps
public static string
# obfuscate( string $email, string $method = 'visible' )

Encode an email-address to protect it from spambots. At the moment only simple string substitutions, which are not 100% safe from email harvesting.

Encode an email-address to protect it from spambots. At the moment only simple string substitutions, which are not 100% safe from email harvesting.

Parameters

$email
string
$email Email-address
$method
string
$method Method for obfuscating/encoding the address - 'direction': Reverse the text and then use CSS to put the text direction back to normal - 'visible': Simple string substitution ('@' to '[at]', '.' to '[dot], '-' to [dash]) - 'hex': Hexadecimal URL-Encoding - useful for mailto: links

Returns

string

Methods inherited from ViewableData

ATT_val(), BaseHref(), CSSClasses(), CurrentMember(), CurrentPage(), Debug(), Even(), EvenOdd(), First(), FirstLast(), HasPerm(), IsAjax(), JS_val(), Last(), Me(), Middle(), MiddleString(), Modulus(), MultipleOf(), Odd(), Pos(), RAW_val(), SQL_val(), ThemeDir(), Top(), TotalItems(), XML_val(), __get(), __isset(), __set(), buildCastingCache(), cachedCall(), castingClass(), castingHelper(), castingHelperPair(), castingObjectCreator(), castingObjectCreatorPair(), customise(), defineMethods(), escapeTypeForField(), getField(), getIterator(), getSecurityID(), getXMLValues(), hasField(), hasValue(), i18nLocale(), iteratorProperties(), obj(), renderWith(), setCustomisedObj(), setField()

Methods inherited from Object

__call(), __toString(), addMethodsFrom(), addStaticVars(), addWrapperMethod(), add_extension(), add_static_var(), allMethodNames(), cacheToFile(), cacheToFileWithArgs(), clearCache(), combined_static(), create(), createMethod(), create_from_string(), exists(), extInstance(), extend(), getCustomClass(), getExtensionInstance(), getExtensionInstances(), get_extensions(), get_static(), hasExtension(), hasMethod(), has_extension(), invokeWithExtensions(), is_a(), loadCache(), parentClass(), parse_class_spec(), remove_extension(), sanitiseCachename(), saveCache(), set_stat(), set_static(), set_uninherited(), stat(), strong_create(), uninherited(), uninherited_static(), useCustomClass()

Magic methods summary

Properties summary

protected mixed $from
#

Param

string
$from Email-Address
protected mixed $to
#

Param

string
$to Email-Address. Use comma-separation to pass multiple email-addresses.
protected mixed $subject
#

Param

string
$subject Subject of the email
protected mixed $body
#

Param

string
$body HTML content of the email. Passed straight into Email::$ss_template as $Body variable.
protected mixed $plaintext_body
#

Param

string
$plaintext_body Optional string for plaintext emails. If not set, defaults to converting the HTML-body with Convert::xml2raw().
protected mixed $cc
#

Param

string
$cc
protected mixed $bcc
#

Param

string
$bcc
protected static mixed $mailer
#

Param

Mailer
$mailer Instance of a Mailer class.
protected array $customHeaders
#

Param

array
$customHeaders A map of header-name -> header-value
protected array $attachments
#

Param

array
$attachements Internal, use Email::attachFileFromString() or Email::attachFile()
protected boolean $parseVariables_done
#

Param

boolean
$
protected string $ss_template
#

Param

string
$ss_template The name of the used template (without *.ss extension)
protected mixed $template_data
#

Param

array
$template_data Additional data available in a template. Used in the same way than ViewableData->customize().
protected mixed $bounceHandlerURL
#

Param

string
$bounceHandlerURL
public static string $admin_email_address
#

Param

sring
$admin_email_address The default administrator email address. This will be set in the config on a site-by-site basis
protected static mixed $send_all_emails_to
#

Param

string
$send_all_emails_to Email-Address
protected static mixed $bcc_all_emails_to
#

Param

string
$bcc_all_emails_to Email-Address
protected static mixed $cc_all_emails_to
#

Param

string
$cc_all_emails_to Email-Address

Properties inherited from ViewableData

$casting, $customisedObject, $default_cast, $failover, $iteratorPos, $iteratorTotalItems

Properties inherited from Object

$class, $extension_instances, $extensions

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