How to apply mailgun or mandrill in YII Framework

Question

I have searched but did not get the exact way to apply mailgun or mandrill in my project, Please guide me to start on this.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Both mandrill and mailgun have an SMTP interface. First step is to get these values.

Next, you must get an smtp extension for yii. smtp-mail turns out to be the top result in google.

Next, in protected/config/main.php, you can configure the plugin:

'components' => array(
  'Smtpmail' => array(
    'class'    => 'application.extensions.smtpmail.PHPMailer',
    'Host'     => "SMTP_HOST",
    'Username' => 'SMTP_USERNAME',
    'Password' => 'SMTP_PASSWORD',
    'Mailer'   => 'smtp',
    'Port'     => 587,
    'SMTPAuth' => true,
  ),
),

Finally, you can create a helper function to actually send the email:

public function mailsend($to, $from, $subject, $message){  
    $mail = Yii::app()->Smtpmail;
    $mail->SetFrom($from, 'From Name');
    $mail->AddAddress($to, '');
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->MsgHTML($message);
    if (!$mail->Send()) {
        echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        return false;
    } else {
        echo 'Message sent!';
        return true;
    }
}