[TYPO3-mvc] fluid as an email template

[Manfred Rutschmann]

Am Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:56:34 +0100 schrieb Dawid Pacholczyk:

> Thank you both fior answers :)
> 
> Manfred can yuu say something more about your methiod ? Code sample ?

Yes, i can:

in your controller you have the action that is sending the email like my
one, right?:

/**
 * sends the form as contactform
 * @param Tx_RkCamperchecker_Domain_Model_Forms_Buchung $buchung
 * @return void
 */
public function sendAction(Tx_RkCamperchecker_Domain_Model_Forms_Buchung
$buchung) {
	$mail =
&t3lib_div::makeInstance("Tx_RkCamperchecker_Domain_Phpmailer_Mailer");	
	$this->view
			->assign('buchung',$buchung)
			->assign('anrede',"Guten Tag ".$buchung->getFirstname()."
".$buchung->getLastname()."")
			->assign('admin',0);
	$html = $this->view->render();
	$h2t = new Tx_RkCamperchecker_Domain_Plaintext_Convert;
	$h2t->html = $html;
	$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
  	$mail->AddReplyTo($this->flexformValues['contactformEmail']);
  	$mail->AddAddress($buchung->getEmail());
  	$mail->SetFrom($this->flexformValues['contactformSender']);
  	$mail->Subject = "Onlinebuchung " . $buchung->anbieter->getTitle() . " "
. $buchung->fahrzeug->getTitle();
  	$mail->AltBody = $h2t->get_text(); // optional - MsgHTML will create an
alternate automatically
  	$mail->MsgHTML($html);
  	$mail->Send();
	$this->forward('showsend', 'Bookingform', NULL
,array('buchung'=>$buchung));
}

For this action i have in /Templates/ a send.html template. There i have
some basic css styles and a table based layout. With $html =
$this->view->render() i get the whole html code. Before i assign some
objects/values to the template. In that case i have integrated the great
phpmailer class in my extension. I have some plaintext and html parts
included. With the last line i start a internal forward to a new action
named showsendAction. It`s a one liner:

	/**
	 * sends the form as contactform
	 * @param array $kontakt
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function
showsendAction(Tx_RkCamperchecker_Domain_Model_Forms_buchung $buchung) {
		$this->view->assign('buchung',$buchung);
	}
After sending the email the user see that one. It`s a very equal template,
but with some layout differences. Thats all. Very easy to use.

You can see the form on this page:
http://www.t-s-a.de/index.php?id=508&tx_rkcamperchecker_pi1[Land]=1&tx_rkcamperchecker_pi1[Fahrzeugkategorie]=6&tx_rkcamperchecker_pi1[Station]=34&tx_rkcamperchecker_pi1[Endstation]=36&tx_rkcamperchecker_pi1[Startdate]=19.12.2010&tx_rkcamperchecker_pi1[Enddate]=11.01.2011
(Use Anfrage on each car on bottom right). We have included many email
sending controllers on this extension and it works very well.

Regards Manne