Send emails from your Magento’s custom extensions

<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Functions to send and Email from Magento:</span></strong>
 
<span style="color: orange;">//*** Function "SendNotificationEMail" is used to create the new message and send the email.</span>
<span style="color: green;">public</span> <span style="color: blue;">function</span> SendNotificationEMail()
 
{
 
<span style="color: blue;"> $toEmail =</span> ‘Email of Message Receptor’;
<span style="color: blue;"> $fromEmail =</span> ‘Email of Message Sender’;
<span style="color: blue;"> $fromName =</span> ‘Name of Message Sender’;
<span style="color: blue;"> $subject =</span> ‘Email Subject’;
<span style="color: blue;"> $body = $this-&gt;</span>createBody(‘Text of Body Message’);
 
<span style="color: blue;"> $attachments =</span> <span style="color: green;">array</span>();
<span style="color: orange;"> //*** On the field $attachments you can include uploaded files, for example, files attached from a contact form,etc.</span>
 
<span style="color: blue;"> $this-&gt;</span>sendMail(<span style="color: blue;">$toEmail, $fromEmail, $fromName, $subject, $body, $attachments</span>);
 
}
 
 
 
<span style="color: orange;">//*** Function "createbody" is used to create the body of message.</span>
<span style="color: blue;">private</span> <span style="color: blue;">function</span> createBody(<span style="color: blue;">$body_content</span>)
 
{
 
<span style="color: orange;"> //*** You can include any text between tags DATA or variables as we show in this example.</span>
 
<span style="color: blue;">$body = &lt;&lt;&lt;</span>DATA
{<span style="color: blue;">$ body_content</span> }
Date: {<span style="color: blue;">$currentDate</span>}
DATA;
 
 
 
<span style="color: green;"> return</span> <span style="color: blue;">$body</span>;
}
 
 
 
<span style="color: orange;">//*** Function "sendMail" is called for send the email using an instance of Zend_Mail. In this example, we use the UTF-8 codification. </span>
<span style="color: green;">private</span> <span style="color: blue;">function</span> sendMail(<span style="color: blue;">$toEmail, $fromEmail, $fromName, $subject, $body,</span> <span style="color: green;">array</span> <span style="color: blue;">$attachments =</span> <span style="color: green;">array</span>())
{
<span style="color: blue;"> $mail = <span style="color: green;">new</span> Zend_Mail('UTF-8');</span>
 
<span style="color: blue;"> $mail-&gt;</span>addTo(<span style="color: blue;">$toEmail</span>)
<span style="color: blue;"> -&gt;</span>setFrom(<span style="color: blue;">$fromEmail, $fromName</span>)
<span style="color: blue;"> -&gt;</span>setSubject(<span style="color: blue;">$subject</span>)
<span style="color: blue;"> -&gt;</span>setBodyText(<span style="color: blue;">$body</span>, null, Zend_Mime::ENCODING_8BIT);
 
<span style="color: green;"> foreach</span> (<span style="color: blue;">$attachments</span> <span style="color: green;">as</span> <span style="color: blue;">$attachment</span>) {
<span style="color: blue;"> $mail-&gt;</span>addAttachment(<span style="color: blue;">$attachment</span>);
}
 
<span style="color: blue;"> $mail-&gt;</span>send();
}
 
 
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