How to send email in Cakephp using sendmail or SMTP

How to send mail in CakePHP 2.x
First you have to configure your cakephp for sending mail.
Go to:

App/Config/email.php

Now there are two method you can use:

Using sendmail function
Using SMTP

For sendmail :

public $default = array(
		'transport' => 'Mail',
		'from' => '[email protected]',
		'charset' => 'utf-8',
		'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
	);

For SMTP:

public $smtp = array(
		'transport' => 'Smtp',
		'from' => array([email protected]' => Sender name),
		'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
		'port' => 465,
		'timeout' => 30,
		'username' => [email protected]',
		'password' => PASSWORD,
		'client' => null,
		'log' => false,
		'charset' => 'utf-8',
		'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
	);

Now you have setup you mail config file.
Now we will send mail:

$Email = new CakeEmail('smtp'); // Replace Smtp to default if you don’t want send mail from SMTP
        $Email->to('[email protected]');
        $Email->emailFormat('html');
        $Email->template('default')->viewVars( array('body'=>"Hi this is a mail from cakePHP")); // pass your variables here.
        $Email->subject('My First Mail from cakephp');
        $Email->from ('[email protected]');
        $Email->send();

To edit or customize your mail template you have to edit/create your email template file:

app/View/Emails/html/default.ctp

<html>
<h1>Hi</h1>
<p><?php echo $body; ?></p>
</html>

for more information you can check CakePHP documentation.

Post on demand by one of my visitor “Nadim”.

Posted

July 8, 2015

CakePHP

tejas

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2 responses to “How to send email in Cakephp using sendmail or SMTP”

nadim

July 8, 2015

Thanks sir its very help full information
1. Tejas Rana
  
  July 8, 2015
  
  Thanks nadim for your appreciation.