Sending mail with api data using codeigniter - php

Question

I need to send mail to the admin with the inserted data using APi function ,
the function is look like that
public function requestbookingresort_post()
{
$languageid = $this->input->post('languageId');
$resort_id = $this->input->post('resortId');
$booking_from = $this->input->post('bookingFrom');
$booking_to = $this->input->post('bookingTo');
$contact_name = $this->input->post('contactName');
$contact_email = $this->input->post('contactEmail');
$contact_phone = $this->input->post('contactPhone');
$userid = $this->input->post('userId');
if (empty($languageid))
{
$languageRecord = getDefaultlanguage();
$languageid = $languageRecord->languageid;
}
$language_file = languagefilebyid($languageid);
$this->lang->load($language_file, $language_file);
if (empty($resort_id) || empty($booking_from) || empty($booking_to) || empty($contact_name) || empty($contact_email) || empty($contact_phone))
{
$arr['status'] = 'error';
$arr['statusMessage'] = lang('error_in_booking');
$arr['data'] = array();
}
else
{
$dataArray = array(
"languageid" => $languageid,
"userid" => empty($userid) ? "0" : $userid,
"resortid" => $resort_id,
"bookingfrom" => date("Y-m-d", strtotime($booking_from)),
"bookingto" => date("Y-m-d", strtotime($booking_to)),
"contactname" => $contact_name,
"contactemail" => $contact_email,
"contactphone" => $contact_phone,
"requestdatetime" => date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),
);
$this->load->model("Resort_model");
$booking_id = $this->Resort_model->saveBookingRequest($dataArray);
if (empty($booking_id))
{
$arr['status'] = 'error';
$arr['statusMessage'] = lang('error_occurred');
$arr['data'] = array();
}
else
{
$arr['status'] = 'success';
$arr['statusMessage'] = lang('booking_request_submit');
$arr['data'] = array();
}
}
$response = array(
"response" => $arr
);
$this->set_response($response, REST_Controller::HTTP_CREATED); // CREATED (201) being the HTTP response code
}
But i'm new at codeigniter and didn't know how to get this passed data from the database to send mail with that to the admin mail or something ?

Answer 1

Try this.
public function requestbookingresort_post()
{
// Your operations
$response = array(
"response" => $arr
);
$this->sendMail($response)
$this->set_response($response, REST_Controller::HTTP_CREATED); // CREATED (201) being the HTTP response code
}
public function sendMail($response)
{
$settings=$this->Some_model->getEmailSettings();
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // we are going to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enabled SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // prefix for secure protocol to connect to the server
$mail->Host = $settings->host; // setting GMail as our SMTP server
$mail->Port = $settings->port; // SMTP port to connect to GMail
$mail->Username = $settings->email; // user email address
$mail->Password = $settings->password; // password in GMail
$mail->SetFrom($settings->sent_email, $settings->sent_title); //Who is sending the email
$mail->AddReplyTo($settings->reply_email,$settings->reply_email); //email address that receives the response
$mail->Subject = "Your Booking has been confirmed";
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$body = $this->load->view('path/email_template', $response, true);
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$destination = $response['contactEmail']; // Who is addressed the email to
$mail->AddAddress($destination);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
$data['code']=300;
$data["message"] = "Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
}
Make sure you have PHPMailer in your libraries and you are loading the library in your constructor and I hope you are keeping Email settings in your database. If not you can manually provide host, port, username and password fields