FinbarrMailService

Version 0.0.2 Created by Finbarr

Introduction

Provide configurable Mail Transport Factory and simple messaging for ZF2

Requirements

• Zend Framework 2 (latest master).

Features / Goals

• Configure transport service for using Zend\Mail [COMPLETE]

Installation

Main Setup

With composer

1. Add this project and the requirements in your composer.json:

   "require": {
       "finbarrmccarthy/finbarr-mailservice": "1.*"
   }

2. Now tell composer to download FinbarrMailService by running the command:

   $ php composer.phar update

Post installation

1. Enabling it in your application.config.phpfile.

   <?php
   return array(
       'modules' => array(
           // ...
           'FinbarrMailService'
       ),
       // ...
   );

2. Copy the configuration files for local and global from ./vendor/finbarrmccarthy/finbarr-mailservice/config/finbarrmailservice.{local,global}.php.dist to ./config/autoload/finbarrmailservice.{local,global}.php and change the values as desired.

3. If you are using the FileTransport (for development) create the directory ./data/mail.

Usage

// The template used by the PhpRenderer to create the content of the mail
$viewTemplate = 'module/email/testmail';

// The ViewModel variables to pass into the renderer
$value = array('foo' => 'bar');

$mailService = $this->getServiceManager()->get('finbarrmailservice_message');
$message = $mailService->createTextMessage($from, $to, $subject, $viewTemplate, $values);
$mailService->send($message);

SMTP Setup

FinbarrMailService uses sendmail by default, but you can set it up to use SMTP by putting your information in the config file like this:

$settings = array(
    'transport_class' => 'Zend\Mail\Transport\Smtp',

    'options_class' => 'Zend\Mail\Transport\SmtpOptions',

    'options' => array(
        'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
        'connection_class' => 'login',
        'connection_config' => array(
            'ssl' => 'tls',
            'username' => 'YOUR-USERNAME-HERE@gmail.com',
            'password' => 'YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE'
        ),
        'port' => 587
    )
);