sending mail in magento

Question

How to send email in magento writing an action in index controller?

my index controller;

public function postAction()
{           

    $post = $this->getRequest()->getPost();     
    if(!$post) exit;
    $translate = Mage::getSingleton('core/translate');
    $translate->setTranslateInline(false);
    try {
            $postObject = new Varien_Object();
            $postObject->setData($post);
            if (!Zend_Validate::is(trim($post['email']), 'EmailAddress')) {
                echo '<div class="error-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Please enter a valid email address. For example [email protected].').'</div>';
                exit; 
            }
            $storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId();
            $emailId = Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_SAMPLE_EMAIL_TEMPLATE);
            $mailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template');              
            $mailTemplate->setDesignConfig(array('area'=>'frontend', 'store'=>$storeId))
                ->setReplyTo($post['email'])
                ->sendTransactional($templateId, $sender, $email, $name, $vars=array(), $storeId=null)

            if (!$mailTemplate->getSentSuccess()) {                 
                echo '<div class="error-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later.').'</div>';
                exit;
            }               
            $translate->setTranslateInline(true);
            echo '<div class="success-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Your inquiry was submitted and will be responded to as soon as possible. Thank you for contacting us.').'</div>';
            }   
            catch (Exception $e) {
            $translate->setTranslateInline(true);
            echo '<div class="error-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later.').$e.'</div>';
            exit;
        }       
}

is there any wrong.. please help me to out of this.. Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

Here's another way, if you don't need templates. Call from a controller.

<?php
$body = "Hi there, here is some plaintext body content";
$mail = Mage::getModel('core/email');
$mail->setToName('John Customer');
$mail->setToEmail('[email protected]');
$mail->setBody($body);
$mail->setSubject('The Subject');
$mail->setFromEmail('[email protected]');
$mail->setFromName("Your Name");
$mail->setType('text');// You can use 'html' or 'text'

try {
    $mail->send();
    Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess('Your request has been sent');
    $this->_redirect('');
}
catch (Exception $e) {
    Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('Unable to send.');
    $this->_redirect('');
}

Answer 2

It looks like there are a few problems with the way you are calling sendTransactional(). First off, $templateId is not defined, it looks like you've actually stored the template id in $emailId. Also, $sender, $email, and $name are undefined. You can try something like this:

->sendTransactional($emailId, 'general', $post['email'], "Need a send to name here")

This is only going to work if you are getting a valid template id back from your call to getStoreConfig(). You'll also need to set the last name param correctly.

There could be other issues, but that's what I noticed with a quick glance anyway.