how to use mail function in yii

Question

I am a newbie in Yii Framework and creating a first yii app. I am trying to send a mail in yii 1.1.14 but not understand how to use in yii.

Answer 1

There is an extension called yii mailer which is composed of PhpMailer.

Here you can Download -- Yii-Mailer

Copy YiiMailer folder to protected/extensions Then Add the below code to your imports in config/main.php

'import'=>array(
        'ext.YiiMailer.YiiMailer',
        'ext.yii-mail.YiiMailMessage',

Then you can simply create a function in your controller to send email like this.

public static function SendEmail($emailContent){
    $mail = new YiiMailer();
    $mail->setFrom('info@example.com', 'Example Site Name');
    $mail->setTo('Info@example.com');
    $mail->setSubject('Example Site Name');
    $mail->setBody($emailContent);
    $mail->send();
    echo "Successfully send";
}

You can replace the setTo line with code below for getting admin email if you have specified.

$mail->setTo(Yii::app()->params['adminEmail']);

and setBody line with your own message or content.

$mail->setBody('Simple message');

More details can be found on how to use yii mailer here