Email Functions

Owned by Ray Pearce (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 15, 2014
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$t->Email

The Blink Mobility Platform has a simple email helper located at $t->email.

$t->email sends an email to specified email address, from another specified email
 
Parameters #An array of options including the following.
$toEmail address that is to receive the email
$subjectSubject heading of the email
$body

The main body of the email

$from Senders email address. If this is left blank it will send from bmp@blinkmobile.com.au
$cc Email address to send a Carbon Copy to
$bcc Email address to send a Blind Carbon Copy to
$attachments

The attachments to send with the email attachments

 $replyto he reply to email address

 

Notes #

cc - Carbon Copy indicates that you are getting a copy but are not the primary addressee.

Carbon copy also allows all recipients to see who else has received the mail.

bcc - Blind Carbon Copy is the same as Carbon Copy except that the address in bcc: is hidden from all recipients in To: and cc:

 

$email_txt = "This is the body of the email.";
$t->email("reciever.address@email.com","example subject heading",$email_txt,"sender.address@email.com","carbon.copy@email.com","hidden.email@bussiness.com");

Sending images as attachments

Custom Code Area
$donotsave = true; 
// First, base64 decode the raw image data sent by Blink
$img = base64_decode($data['foto']);
 
// Then attach the image
$t->AddStringAttachment($img, 'photo.png', 'base64', 'image/png');
 
// Then send your email
$t->email('test@test.com', 'subject', 'email body');

Complex Emails

For complicated emails (i.e. multiple attachments, from, cc, bcc, reply-to, html emails etc) the PHPMailer library is included: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=methods.

A complicated example could look like this:

Custom Code Area
$subject =  "Some Council online enquiry - {$data['type']}";$msg = "<p>
<b>Enquiry about:</b> {$data['type']}<br />
<b>How can we help:</b> " . nl2br($data['message']) ."<br />
<b>Does your enquiry relate to a specific address:</b> {$data['specific_address']}<br />";
if ($data['specific_address'] == 'Yes') {
 $msg .=
   "<b>Address:</b> {$data['street']}<br />
    <b>Suburb:</b> {$data['suburb']}<br />";
}
$msg .= "<br />
<b>Full name:</b> {$data['name']}<br />
<b>Phone number:</b> {$data['phone']}<br />
<b>Email address:</b> {$data['email']}<br /><br />
<b>Would you require a copy of the email:</b> {$data['copy']}";
 
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail -> charSet = "UTF-8"; //Override default encoding
$mail->SetFrom ('no-reply@somecouncil.gov.au', 'no-reply'); //Change the reply to address
$mail->ClearReplyTos();
$mail->AddReplyTo($data['email'], $data['name']);
$mail->addAddress('enquiry@somecouncil.gov.au');
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->MsgHTML($msg);// Sets body and configures headers to HTML type.
if ($data['copy'] === 'Yes') {
  $mail->AddCC($data['email']); //Adds user to CC if they have opted in
}
           
if (isset($data['image']) && !empty($data['image'])) {
  $img = base64_decode($data['image']);
  $mail->AddStringAttachment($img, 'photo.png', 'base64', 'image/png'); //If the user has included an image, we can attach it easily.
}
                
$mail->Send();