sending email using zend/mail - php

Question

I want to send an email using zend/mail in zend framework 2.
I already have some code but i don't know where to put it, and also not how to trigger this.
$mail = new Mail\Message();
$mail->setBody('This is the text of the email.');
$mail->setFrom('email#hotmail.be', 'email');
$mail->addTo('email#hotmail.be', 'email');
$mail->setSubject('Dit is een email verzonden van de computer');
$transport = new Mail\Transport\Sendmail('-freturn_to_email#hotmail.be');
$transport->send($mail);
I still new at Zend framework 2.
Can anybody help me with this?

Answer 1

I would advice you to take a look at Soflomo\Mail. Note, I am the author of Soflomo mail, but it helps you a lot with sending mails. It eases the config and dependency hassle.
Put "soflomo/mail": "~0.3" in your composer.json file and run the following command:
php composer.phar update soflomo/mail
Next, enable the module Soflomo\Mail in your application.config.php. When you use Zend\Mvc, you will have a controller/action which should trigger the email. For the most simplified use case, you can do this:
public function doAction()
{
// some of your logic
$service = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('Soflomo\Mail\Service\MailService');
$service->send(array(
'to' => 'email#hotmail.be',
'to_name' => 'email',
'from' => 'email#hotmail.be',
'from_name' => 'email',
'subject' => 'Dit is een email verzonden van de computer',
'template' => 'mail/message/default'
));
}
Now Soflomo\Mail sends a message by rendering a template and use that as message text. Here I defined a message mail/message/default so create that file (e.g. module/Application/view/mail/message/default.phtml) with this content:
This is the text of the email.
The last thing to do is to configure how Soflomo/Mail sends the message. Your question uses Sendmail, so I am using this as well in this example. Create a configuration file in config/autoload , e.g. config/autoload/soflomo_mail.global.php which contains the following content:
return array(
'soflomo_mail' => array(
'transport' => array(
'type' => 'sendmail',
),
),
);
If you want to switch to e.g. GMail as transport layer, replace above config with:
return array(
'soflomo_mail' => array(
'transport' => array(
'type' => 'smtp',
'options' => array(
'name' => 'gmail.com',
'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => 587,
'connection_class' => 'login',
'connection_config' => array(
'ssl' => 'tls',
'username' => '%USERNAME%',
'password' => '%PASSWORD%',
),
),
'variables' => array(
'username' => '',
'password' => '',
),
),
),
);
And create a new file config/autoload/soflomo_mail.local.php:
return array(
'soflomo_mail' => array(
'transport' => array(
'variables' => array(
'username' => 'my-address#gmail.com',
'password' => '1234secure7890',
),
),
),
);
I guess Hotmail would be similar to GMail.

Answer 2

You can use this within the zend directory,
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setBodyText('This is the text of the mail.');
$mail->setFrom('somebody#example.com', 'Some Sender');
$mail->addTo('somebody_else#example.com', 'Some Recipient');
$mail->setSubject('TestSubject');
$mail->send();