how to make adminEmail dynamically in yii framework - php

Question

currently the adminEmail is set in the params.php file. I am trying to change the 'adminEmail' dynamically and then I can assign the email value I want. There is the code in the params.php.
return array(
// this is displayed in the header section
'title' => 'title here',
// this is admin email
'adminEmail' => 'admin#email.com',
But the admin emails can be more than one(eg. admin1#email.com, admin2#email.com), how can I set admin email dynamically in params.php ?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can try set multiple emails on adminEmail, and at runtime access it using index. E.G
//asign multiple email ids to adminEmail as array
'params'=>array(
// this is used in contact page
'adminEmail'=>array('webmaster#example.com','sany#gmail.com','xxx#yahoo.com','webmaster2#example.com')
),
//access it using array index at runtime as your requirement
<?php echo Yii::app()->params['adminEmail'][1];?> //sany#gmail.com
<?php echo Yii::app()->params['adminEmail'][2];?> // xxx#yahoo.com
OR
Create a static method on a class that will generate dynamic email ids and
then set it to your adminEmail param .e.g
class Email
{
public static function generateEmailIds()
{
//or any other way to generate email ids or id
return array('webmaster#example.com',
'sany#gmail.com',
'xxx#yahoo.com');
}
}
'params'=>array(
// this is used in contact page
'adminEmail'=>Email::generateEmailIds(),
)

Answer 2

Well, although I don't recommend this approach, what you want to do can be done like this:
You need to store your array in a file in serialized form (that is, call function serialize() on it. That will turn the array into a string.
You can read the file and unserialize it (that is, call function unserialize() on it. That will turn the string that you read form file back into a PHP array.)
$handle = fopen('path/to/file','rb');
$contents = fread($handle,999).
$array = unserialize($contents);
set 'adminEmail' to what you want it to be:
$array['adminEmail'] = 'new#email.com;
or even
$array['adminEmail']= array(..lots of emails..);
then you need to turn the array into a string and write the array back to file. Like this, for example:
$serialized_contents = serialize($array);
fwrite($handle, $serialized_contents);
There may be more efficient ways to do this if you want to.