Newsletter plugin for CakePHP

This plugins adds a basic News Letter functionality to your CakePHP based application.

Requirements

CakePHP 3.x

Installation

    composer require abolkog/Newsletter

Enable the plugin within your config/bootstrap.php

  Plugin::load('Newsletter', ['bootstrap' => false, 'routes' => true]);

Run the following command in the CakePHP console to create the tables using the Migrations plugin:
```
  bin/cake migrations migrate -p newsletter
```

Usage

Displaying the Subscribe Form

Load the Newsletter component in your controller

  $this->loadComponent('Newsletter.Newsletter');

Display the form using the SubscribeWidget in your views
```
  <?= $this->SubscribeWidget->show(); ?>
```

Example

in AppController.php

    namespace App\Controller;
    
    use Cake\Controller\Controller;
    use Cake\Event\Event;
    
    class AppController extends Controller
    {
    
        public function initialize()
        {
            parent::initialize();
            $this->loadComponent('Newsletter.Newsletter');
        }
    }

in footer.ctp

<footer>
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-3">
            <?= $this->SubscribeWidget->show(); ?>
        </div>
    </div>
</footer>

Accessing the admin area

The easiest way is to add the following link to your navigation to access the admin area of the news letter
```
  <?= $this->Html->link('News Letter', ['controller'=>'groups','plugin'=>'Newsletter']) ?>
```

Sender Shell

The sender shell is used to send out emails as well as showing current emails in the queue

To list all emails in the queue
```
  bin/cake newsletter.sender  show
```
To start Processing the email queue
```
  bin/cake newsletter.sender  run
```

This run command will processs 50 emails per time. you can override it by passing the limit argument

    bin/cake newsletter.sender run -l 100

To see all available commmands
```
  bin/cake newsletter.sender
```

License

Licensed under the MIT License. Redistributions of the source code included in this repository must retain the copyright notice found in each file.

stephenjude/cakephp-newsletter