/ cake / libs / controller / components / email.php
Defined Classes
EmailComponent Class Info:
- Class Declaration:
class EmailComponent extends Object
- File name:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php
- Description:
EmailComponent
This component is used for handling Internet Message Format based based on the standard outlined in http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
- Class Inheritance
- Package
- cake
- Subpackage
- cake.cake.libs.controller.components
- Link
- http://book.cakephp.org/view/1283/Email
Properties:
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additionalParams string
List of additional headers
These will NOT be used if you are using safemode and mail()
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attachments array
List of files that should be attached to the email.
Can be both absolute and relative paths
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bcc array
Blind Carbon Copy
List of email's that should receive a copy of the email. The Recipient WILL NOT be able to see this list
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cc array
Carbon Copy
List of email's that should receive a copy of the email. The Recipient WILL be able to see this list
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charset string
charset the email is sent in
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date string
The date to put in the Date: header. This should be a date conformant with the RFC2822 standard. Leave null, to have today's date generated.
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delivery string
What method should the email be sent by
Supported methods: - mail - smtp - debug
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filePaths array
The list of paths to search if an attachment isnt absolute
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from string
The mail which the email is sent from
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headers array
Associative array of a user defined headers Keys will be prefixed 'X-' as per RFC2822 Section 4.7.5
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htmlMessage string
Contains the rendered HTML message if one was sent.
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layout string
Layout for the View
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lineFeed string
Line feed character(s) to be used when sending using mail() function By default PHP_EOL is used. RFC2822 requires it to be CRLF but some Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used).
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_lineLength
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lineLength integer
as per RFC2822 Section 2.1.1
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messageId mixed
Whether to generate a Message-ID header for the e-mail. True to generate a Message-ID, False to let it be handled by sendmail (or similar) or a string to completely override the Message-ID.
If you are sending Email from a shell, be sure to set this value. As you could encounter delivery issues if you do not.
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readReceipt string
The read receipt email
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replyTo string
The email the recipient will reply to
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return string
The mail that will be used in case of any errors like - Remote mailserver down - Remote user has exceeded his quota - Unknown user
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sendAs string
What format should the email be sent in
Supported formats: - text - html - both
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smtpError string
Placeholder for any errors that might happen with the smtp mail methods
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smtpOptions array
List of options to use for smtp mail method
Options is: - port - host - timeout - username - password - client
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subject string
The subject of the email
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template string
Template for the view
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textMessage string
Contains the rendered plain text message if one was sent.
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to string
Recipient of the email
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xMailer string
What mailer should EmailComponent identify itself as
Method Summary:
- cakeError( $method, $messages = array ( ) )
- __construct( )
- dispatchMethod( $method, $params = array ( ) )
- _getSocket( $config )
- header( $headers )
- initialize( $controller, $settings = array ( ) )
- log( $msg, $type = 2 )
- Object( )
- _persist( $name, $return, $object, $type = NULL )
- requestAction( $url, $extra = array ( ) )
- reset( )
- _savePersistent( $name, $object )
- send( $content = NULL, $template = NULL, $layout = NULL )
- _set( $properties = array ( ) )
- _smtpSend( $data, $checkCode = '250' )
- startup( $controller )
- _stop( $status = 0 )
- toString( )
- _wrap( $message, $lineLength = NULL )
cakeError
topUsed to report user friendly errors. If there is a file app/error.php or app/app_error.php this file will be loaded error.php is the AppError class it should extend ErrorHandler class.
- Parameters:
-
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string $method required
Method to be called in the error class (AppError or ErrorHandler classes)
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array $messages optional array ( )
Message that is to be displayed by the error class
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 187
- Return
error message
- Access
public
__construct
topClass constructor, overridden in descendant classes.
- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 54
dispatchMethod
topCalls a method on this object with the given parameters. Provides an OO wrapper
for call_user_func_array
- Parameters:
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string $method required
Name of the method to call
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array $params optional array ( )
Parameter list to use when calling $method
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 107
- Return
mixed Returns the result of the method call
- Access
public
_getSocket
topHelper method to get socket, overridden in tests
- Parameters:
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array $config required
Config data for the socket.
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 843
- Return
void
- Access
protected
header
topSets headers for the message
- Parameters:
-
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$headers required
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 549
- Access
public
initialize
topInitialize component
- Parameters:
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object $controller required
Instantiating controller
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$settings optional array ( )
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 331
- Access
public
log
topConvience method to write a message to CakeLog. See CakeLog::write() for more information on writing to logs.
- Parameters:
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string $msg required
Log message
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integer $type optional 2
Error type constant. Defined in app/config/core.php.
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 148
- Return
boolean Success of log write
- Access
public
Object
topA hack to support __construct() on PHP 4 Hint: descendant classes have no PHP4 class_name() constructors, so this constructor gets called first and calls the top-layer __construct() which (if present) should call parent::__construct()
- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 43
- Return
Object
_persist
topChecks for a persistent class file, if found file is opened and true returned If file is not found a file is created and false returned If used in other locations of the model you should choose a unique name for the persistent file There are many uses for this method, see manual for examples
- Parameters:
-
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string $name required
name of the class to persist
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$return required
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string $object required
the object to persist
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$type optional NULL
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 218
- Return
boolean Success
- Access
protected
- Todo
add examples to manual
requestAction
topCalls a controller's method from any location. Can be used to connect controllers together or tie plugins into a main application. requestAction can be used to return rendered views or fetch the return value from controller actions.
- Parameters:
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mixed $url required
String or array-based url.
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array $extra optional array ( )
if array includes the key "return" it sets the AutoRender to true.
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 80
- Return
mixed Boolean true or false on success/failure, or contents of rendered action if 'return' is set in $extra.
- Access
public
reset
topReset all EmailComponent internal variables to be able to send out a new email.
- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 424
- Access
public
- Link
- http://book.cakephp.org/view/1285/Sending-Multiple-Emails-in-a-loop
_savePersistent
topYou should choose a unique name for the persistent file
There are many uses for this method, see manual for examples
- Parameters:
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string $name required
name used for object to cache
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object $object required
the object to persist
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 247
- Return
boolean true on save, throws error if file can not be created
- Access
protected
send
topSend an email using the specified content, template and layout
- Parameters:
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mixed $content optional NULL
Either an array of text lines, or a string with contents If you are rendering a template this variable will be sent to the templates as
$content -
string $template optional NULL
Template to use when sending email
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string $layout optional NULL
Layout to use to enclose email body
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 357
- Return
boolean Success
- Access
public
_set
topAllows setting of multiple properties of the object in a single line of code. Will only set properties that are part of a class declaration.
- Parameters:
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array $properties optional array ( )
An associative array containing properties and corresponding values.
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 166
- Return
void
- Access
protected
_smtpSend
topProtected method for sending data to SMTP connection
- Parameters:
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string $data required
data to be sent to SMTP server
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mixed $checkCode optional '250'
code to check for in server response, false to skip
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 949
- Return
bool Success
- Access
protected
startup
topStartup component
- Parameters:
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object $controller required
Instantiating controller
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 345
- Access
public
_stop
topStop execution of the current script. Wraps exit() making testing easier.
- Parameters:
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$status optional 0
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 135
- Return
void
- Access
public
toString
topObject-to-string conversion. Each class can override this method as necessary.
- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/object.php on line 64
- Return
string The name of this class
- Access
public
_wrap
topWrap the message using EmailComponent::$lineLength
- Parameters:
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string $message required
Message to wrap
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integer $lineLength optional NULL
Max length of line
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- Method defined in:
- cake/libs/controller/components/email.php on line 720
- Return
array Wrapped message
- Access
protected
