Override CakeEmail destination globally - php

Question

Is there an easy way to "override" the destination of an email using CakeEmail?
I have a model method that send an email using this piece of code:
$Email = new CakeEmail();
$Email->config('default');
$sent = $Email->template('new-notification')
->subject('A new notification for you')
->viewVars([
'name' => $foo['User']['name'],
'text' => $foo['Notification']['text'],
)
->emailFormat('html')
->to($foo['User']['email'])
->send();
And this configuration:
class EmailConfig
{
public $default = array(
'host' => 'smtp.server.com',
'port' => 587,
'username' => 'user#domain.com',
'password' => 'pwdAsYouKnow',
'from' => array('noreply#domain.com' => 'Company'),
'transport' => 'Smtp'
);
}
As you can see, I send the email for a dynamically defined user's email.
My objective is when I'm developing locally on my machine, to force every call to ->send() to force a destination like developer#domain.com.
I can easily detect if I'm on development, but I don't know how to force in a "master" way to CakeEmail only send to a defined account overriding the one set on the call.
I already tried to set an
'to' => array('developer#domain.com' => 'Dev'),
inside $default but, no success.
I appreciate any help, thanks!

Answer 1

i'm assuming when you are on local machine you run in debug mode, so you can check if debug mode is on then use that to send to different email
if(Configure::read('debug')){
$emailTo = 'developer#domain.com'
}
else{
$emailTo = $foo['User']['email'];
}
then you just use variable for email address:
$sent = $Email->template('new-notification')
->subject('A new notification for you')
->viewVars([
'name' => $foo['User']['name'],
'text' => $foo['Notification']['text'],
)
->emailFormat('html')
->to($emailTo)
->send();