20 Comments to “Painless HTML Emails with Zend_Mail”

1. Ivo Trompert
   June 22, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Permalink

   Thank you for this great Screen cast. This is very helpful.

2. Vitor Almeida
   June 23, 2010 at 8:55 am | Permalink

   Hey Jon.. im glad for back to your blog ! Nice post…

   But i have a point to observe in your application.ini

   autoloaderNamespaces[] = “ZC”

   i’m using underscore at end.. i saw in others blogs… many tutorials

   Whats the correct mode ?

   thanks..

3. Jeremy
   June 23, 2010 at 11:33 am | Permalink

   Once again, Jon, great screencast. I just finished up my logic for registration, password reset and this will definitely help to spruce up those emails a bit.

4. Ladislav Prskavec
   June 23, 2010 at 12:02 pm | Permalink

   I have question, i try use $this->baseUrl(); helper in template and doesn’t work. Any help?

5. PHPGangsta
   June 23, 2010 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

   Very nice screencast, as everytime!

   Just for the record: The autocompletion in your IndexController is not working because phpDoc says addTo() returns Zend_Mail object, and sendHtmlTemplate() is in your ZC_HtmlMailer class, not in Zend_Mail.
   The same applies when you want to create setViewParam() function.

6. jon
   June 23, 2010 at 9:00 pm | Permalink

   @PHPGangsta,

   Thanks for mentioning this!

7. jon
   June 23, 2010 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

   @Vitor,

   I think both will work.

8. James S
   June 24, 2010 at 1:29 am | Permalink

   Hi Jon,

   Nice to see someone else take this approach to html emails. I actually wrote something similar back in early december for my own project, and wrote up a quick post about it at http://www.tkstudios.com/2009/12/02/zend-framework-email-templating-with-layouts-views/

   It includes the ability to send emails with both HTML and text versions of a template.

   Any chance you’ll be messing around with Zend_Markup sometime soon?

9. Jeremy
   June 24, 2010 at 9:28 am | Permalink

   @Ladislav

   Not sure why that’s not working, but as an alternative, you can use the url helper to create links in your template:

   $this->url(array(‘controller’ => ‘mycontroller’, ‘action’ => ‘myaction’));

10. Jonathan
    June 29, 2010 at 10:39 am | Permalink

    Interesting, thank you.

11. Jaimie
    July 3, 2010 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

    Hey,

    Anyone knows how to change the production environment, I just installed ZF and got the basic app running, but when i try to edit some stuff it throws me white pages, if i print the APPLICATION_ENV constant i get “production”, how can i change this to development?

    Thanks,

    Great tuts Jon.

12. PHPGangsta
    July 6, 2010 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    Normally you do this in your httpd.conf (or your vhost.conf) or your .htaccess:

    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

13. Vitor Almeida
    July 6, 2010 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    @PHPGangsta

    U can change this var in several places..

    .htaccess
    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

    index.php
    // In the firsts lines.. add this
    define(‘APPLICATION_ENV’, ‘development’)

    // if u are using apache + virtual hosts
    httpd-vhosts.conf
    // add this to directory section

    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development
    …

14. Vitor Almeida
    July 6, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

    @PHPGangsta
    sorry i saw your name and make a mistake with who make the question ehehe..

    by the way.. i complete your answer

15. whisher
    July 15, 2010 at 4:45 am | Permalink

    Hi,
    As usual excellent tutorial
    Just only a point I ended up passing the
    view instance through the constructor
    in this way
    __construct(Zend_View $view,$charset = ‘UTF-8′)
    because of I got an error layout.phtml not found
    (I have the layouts in layouts folder
    ; Layout
    resources.layout.layoutpath = APPLICATION_PATH “/layouts”
    resources.layout.layout = default)
    Bye

16. Marcin
    August 30, 2010 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    Another quality tutorial, thank you!
    And as usually great feedback from people watching Thank you all, I’ve learned so much
    Tip of this screencast goes to Jose Grieco

17. Rafa
    September 2, 2010 at 5:25 am | Permalink

    @knodumi
    Hi mate! How have you managed to get it working with arrays of arrays (key=>value)? Do I need to modify any Jquery params?

    Thanks!

18. Rafa
    September 2, 2010 at 5:28 am | Permalink

    @knodumi
    Hi mate! How have you managed to get it working with arrays of arrays (key=>value)? Do I need to modify any Jquery params?

    Thank you!

19. Diego
    March 7, 2011 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    Thanks!

20. Bert
    June 11, 2011 at 6:50 am | Permalink

    Great solution, thanks!!!
    I noticed that if you use the <?php tag, in the template. The variables don't show up in the email. So you always have to use the <?= tag ??