Custom email sending in magento custom module - magento

Question

I am working on a module that will send an email after 7 days of order completion. I'm stuck on sending emails. I can see the email template in transactional emails drop down in admin. But the email is not being sent.
Here is my confix.xml part for including email template.
<template>
<email>
<recurring_order_email_template translate="label">
<label>Recurring order email</label>
<file>coeus_recurring_order_email.html</file>
<type>html</type>
</recurring_order_email_template>
</email>
</template>
and this is how I am sending email in controller action
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
->loadDefault('coeus_recurring_order_email');
$emailTemplateVariables = array();
$emailTemplateVariables['var1'] = 'var1 value';
$emailTemplateVariables['var2'] = 'var 2 value';
$emailTemplateVariables['var3'] = 'var 3 value';
$emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($emailTemplateVariables);
$emailTemplate->setSenderName('sender name');
$emailTemplate->setSenderEmail('sender#test.com');
try {
$emailTemplate->send('myemail#gmail.com', 'bla bla',$emailTemplateVariables);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
I don't know why its not working.

Answer 1

$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadDefault('recurring_order_email_template');
//Getting the Store E-Mail Sender Name.
$senderName = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name');
//Getting the Store General E-Mail.
$senderEmail = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email');
//Variables for Confirmation Mail.
$emailTemplateVariables = array();
$emailTemplateVariables['name'] = $customerName;
$emailTemplateVariables['email'] = $customerEmail;
//Appending the Custom Variables to Template.
$processedTemplate = $emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($emailTemplateVariables);
//Sending E-Mail to Customers.
$mail = Mage::getModel('core/email')
->setToName($senderName)
->setToEmail($customerEmail)
->setBody($processedTemplate)
->setSubject('Subject :')
->setFromEmail($senderEmail)
->setFromName($senderName)
->setType('html');
try{
//Confimation E-Mail Send
$mail->send();
}
catch(Exception $error)
{
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError($error->getMessage());
return false;
}

Answer 2

Change your etc/config.xml code to below:
<template>
<email>
<recurring_order_email_template>
<label>Recurring order email</label>
<file>coeus_recurring_order_email.html</file>
<type>html</type>
</recurring_order_email_template>
</email>
</template>
Change your controller code to below:
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
->loadDefault('recurring_order_email_template');
$emailTemplateVariables = array();
$emailTemplateVariables['var1'] = 'var1 value';
$emailTemplateVariables['var2'] = 'var 2 value';
$emailTemplateVariables['var3'] = 'var 3 value';
$emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($emailTemplateVariables);
$emailTemplate->setSenderName('sender name');
$emailTemplate->setSenderEmail('sender#test.com');
try {
$emailTemplate->send($recipientEmail, $senderName, $emailTemplateVariables);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
Change your $recipientEmail, $senderName & $emailTemplateVariables as per your need.
To load a email template, you must specifiy the tag name after
<template>
<email>
</email>
</template>
that you provided in the config.xml

Answer 3

I think you made a mistake here.
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadDefault('coeus_recurring_order_email');
try this
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
->loadDefault('recurring_order_email_template');
to load a email template you have to give the tag name that you provide in the config.xml
eg: in you code
use
<recurring_order_email_template>
to load email template