Class Mailer

Mailer base class.

Mailer classes let you encapsulate related Email logic into a reusable and testable class.

Defining Messages

Mailers make it easy for you to define methods that handle email formatting logic. For example:

class UserMailer extends Mailer
{
    public function resetPassword($user)
    {
        $this
            ->setSubject('Reset Password')
            ->setTo($user->email)
            ->set(['token' => $user->token]);
    }
}

Is a trivial example but shows how a mailer could be declared.

Sending Messages

After you have defined some messages you will want to send them:

$mailer = new UserMailer();
$mailer->send('resetPassword', $user);

Event Listener

Mailers can also subscribe to application event allowing you to decouple email delivery from your application code. By re-declaring the implementedEvents() method you can define event handlers that can convert events into email. For example, if your application had a user registration event:

public function implementedEvents()
{
    return [
        'Model.afterSave' => 'onRegistration',
    ];
}

public function onRegistration(Event $event, Entity $entity, ArrayObject $options)
{
    if ($entity->isNew()) {
         $this->send('welcome', [$entity]);
    }
}

The onRegistration method converts the application event into a mailer method. Our mailer could either be registered in the application bootstrap, or in the Table class' initialize() hook.

Cake\Mailer\Mailer implements Cake\Event\EventListenerInterface uses Cake\Datasource\ModelAwareTrait

Properties summary

• $_clonedEmail protected
  string

  Cloned Email instance for restoring instance after email is sent by mailer action.

• $_email protected
  Cake\Mailer\Email
  Email instance.
• $name public static
  string
  Mailer's name.

Inherited Properties

• _modelFactories, _modelType, modelClass

Method Summary

• __call() public
  Magic method to forward method class to Email instance.
• __construct() public
  Constructor.
• getName() public
  Returns the mailer's name.
• implementedEvents() public
  Implemented events.
• layout() public
  Sets layout to use.
• reset() protected
  Reset email instance.
• send() public
  Sends email.
• set() public
  Sets email view vars.
• viewBuilder() public
  Get Email instance's view builder.

Method Detail

__call( string $method , array $args )

__construct( Cake\Mailer\Email $email null )

getName( )

implementedEvents( )

layout( string $layout )

reset( )

send( string $action , array $args [] , array $headers [] )

set( string|array $key , mixed $value null )

viewBuilder( )

Methods used from Cake\Datasource\ModelAwareTrait

_setModelClass( string $name )

loadModel( string|null $modelClass null , string|null $modelType null )

modelFactory( string $type , callable $factory )

modelType( string|null $modelType null )

Magic methods summary

addAttachments()source public

addAttachments( $attachments )

Parameters

$attachments

Returns

addBcc()source public

addBcc( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email

$name optional

Returns

addCc()source public

addCc( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email

$name optional

Returns

addHeaders()source public

addHeaders( array $headers )

Parameters

array $headers

Returns

addTo()source public

addTo( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email

$name optional

Returns

attachments()source public

attachments( $attachments )

Parameters

$attachments optional

Returns

bcc()source public

bcc( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

cc()source public

cc( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

charset()source public

charset( $charset )

Parameters

$charset optional

Returns

domain()source public

domain( $domain )

Parameters

$domain optional

Returns

emailFormat()source public

emailFormat( $format )

Parameters

$format optional

Returns

from()source public

from( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

getHeaders()source public

getHeaders( array $include )

Parameters

array $include optional

Returns

headerCharset()source public

headerCharset( $charset )

Parameters

$charset optional

Returns

helpers()source public

helpers( $helpers )

Parameters

$helpers optional

Returns

message()source public

message( $type )

Parameters

$type optional

Returns

messageId()source public

messageId( $message )

Parameters

$message optional

Returns

profile()source public

profile( $config )

Parameters

$config optional

Returns

readReceipt()source public

readReceipt( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

replyTo()source public

replyTo( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

returnPath()source public

returnPath( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

sender()source public

sender( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

setHeaders()source public

setHeaders( array $headers )

Parameters

array $headers

Returns

subject()source public

subject( $subject )

Parameters

$subject optional

Returns

template()source public

template( $template , $layout )

Parameters

$template optional

$layout optional

Returns

theme()source public

theme( $theme )

Parameters

$theme optional

Returns

to()source public

to( $email , $name )

Parameters

$email optional

$name optional

Returns

transport()source public

transport( $name )

Parameters

$name optional

Returns

viewRender()source public

viewRender( $viewClass )

Parameters

$viewClass optional

Returns

viewVars()source public

viewVars( $viewVars )

Parameters

$viewVars optional

Returns

Properties detail