MultiMailer

Yii extension for sending or saving emails with templates and attachments.

What it does

This extension allows to send emails with the help of PHPMailer class or to store emails in database (for example to send them later using Java workers).

The last version

This is the last version of Multimailer (excluding bug fixes).

This version does not include PHPMailer files because with the last critical issue being fixed I don't want to open your server to exploits with older versions.
Please get the latest version of PHPMailer at https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer and place all the folders and files in MultiMailer/PHPMailer folder.

I recommend switching to Yii 2.

Installation

Place the MultiMailer folder inside your Yii /protected/extensions directory. Modify the main.php config file. For example:

return array(
    'components' => array(
        'MultiMailer' => array(
            'class' => 'ext.MultiMailer.MultiMailer',
            'setFromAddress' => 'from@yourwebsite.com',
            'setFromName' => 'Your Website',
        ),
    ),
);

This sets MultiMailer to send email using PHP mail() function with sender 'Your Website <from@yourwebsite.com>'. You can find more configuration examples in Examples folder.

How to use it

$mailer = Yii::app()->MultiMailer->to('example@server.com', 'Recipient');
$mailer->subject('Example email subject');
$mailer->body('<h1>Hello</h1><p>This is test.<br>MultiMailer test.</p>');

if ($mailer->send()) {
    // success
}
else {
    // error
    echo $mailer->getMultiError();
}

You can chain the methods (except attachment() and attachments()) like:

Yii::app()->MultiMailer->to('example@server.com', 'Recipient')->subject('Example email subject')->body('<h1>Hello</h1><p>This is test.<br>MultiMailer test.</p>')->send();

Special case: emails in database

You can use MultiMailer to save email in database instead of sending it immediately. Email will be prepared using the PHPMailer as well.

First the configuration:

return array(
    'components' => array(
        'MultiMailer' => array(
            'class' => 'ext.MultiMailer.MultiMailer',
            'setFromAddress' => 'from@yourwebsite.com',
            'setFromName' => 'Your Website',
            'setMethod' => 'DB',
            'setDbModel' => 'Email',
        ),
    ),
);

You need to prepare the database table for email storage with Active Record model class ('Email' in the example above). Default table columns are 'email', 'name', 'subject', 'body' and 'alt'.

See the documentation for information about adding or switching the columns off.

The usage in this case is the same as before but remember that method send() will not send the email but will actually save it in the database.

Available sending methods

mail()
SMTP
Gmail
POP before SMTP
Sendmail
qmail

List of quick-start extension methods

attachment() - add an attachment (option: attachments() - add the list of attachments)
bcc() - add a blind carbon copy recipient (options: bccs() - add the list of bcc recipients)
body() - set the email body text (option: set the list of prameters for template here and use template() to add template)
cc() - add a carbon copy recipient (option: ccs() - add the list of cc recipients)
send() - send the email
subject() - set the email subject
to() - add a recipient (option: tos() - add the list of recipients)

bizley/Yii-MultiMailer