Last updated on December 21, 2022
Hi there, This tutorial will show you how to send emails from the yii2 application. Sending emails from the yii2 application is not a tedious task, in fact, we just need to edit/add the config options in your config file.
Yii2 provides a flexible interface for sending emails, however, to send emails we have to use external Email libraries/extensions.
Yii2 by default using yii2-swiftmailer as the official extension.
Open your config/wep.php file and make the following adjustments to send emails using the email function.
Find the following:
'mailer' => [
'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
'viewPath' => '@common/mail',
// send all mails to a file by default. You have to set
// 'useFileTransport' to false and configure a transport
// for the mailer to send real emails.
'useFileTransport' => true,
],This will be under the components parameters in the config array. In the advanced YII2 application, the file will be in common/main-local.php by default.
Change the code to this:
return [
'components' => [
...
'mailer' => [
'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
'viewPath' => '@common/mail',
'transport' => [
'class' => 'Swift_MailTransport',
],
'useFileTransport' => false,
],
],
];
useFileTransport must be changed to false and transport is set to use Swift_MailTransport.
See the following link for info on swiftmailer transport types. http://swiftmailer.org/docs/sending.html#using-the-mail-transport
Basic usage
After completing the above email configuration steps. You can use the below code to send emails.
Yii::$app->mailer->compose()
->setFrom('[email protected]')
->setTo('[email protected]')
->setSubject('Message subject')
->setTextBody('Plain text content')
->setHtmlBody('HTML content')
->send();
See the following link for info on sending emails. http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-tutorial-mailing.html
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