sending mail in magento - magento

Question

How to send email in magento writing an action in index controller?
my index controller;
public function postAction()
{
$post = $this->getRequest()->getPost();
if(!$post) exit;
$translate = Mage::getSingleton('core/translate');
$translate->setTranslateInline(false);
try {
$postObject = new Varien_Object();
$postObject->setData($post);
if (!Zend_Validate::is(trim($post['email']), 'EmailAddress')) {
echo '<div class="error-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Please enter a valid email address. For example johndoe#domain.com.').'</div>';
exit;
}
$storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId();
$emailId = Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_SAMPLE_EMAIL_TEMPLATE);
$mailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template');
$mailTemplate->setDesignConfig(array('area'=>'frontend', 'store'=>$storeId))
->setReplyTo($post['email'])
->sendTransactional($templateId, $sender, $email, $name, $vars=array(), $storeId=null)
if (!$mailTemplate->getSentSuccess()) {
echo '<div class="error-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later.').'</div>';
exit;
}
$translate->setTranslateInline(true);
echo '<div class="success-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Your inquiry was submitted and will be responded to as soon as possible. Thank you for contacting us.').'</div>';
}
catch (Exception $e) {
$translate->setTranslateInline(true);
echo '<div class="error-msg">'.Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later.').$e.'</div>';
exit;
}
}
is there any wrong..
please help me to out of this..
Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

Here's another way, if you don't need templates.
Call from a controller.
<?php
$body = "Hi there, here is some plaintext body content";
$mail = Mage::getModel('core/email');
$mail->setToName('John Customer');
$mail->setToEmail('customer#email.com');
$mail->setBody($body);
$mail->setSubject('The Subject');
$mail->setFromEmail('yourstore#url.com');
$mail->setFromName("Your Name");
$mail->setType('text');// You can use 'html' or 'text'
try {
$mail->send();
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess('Your request has been sent');
$this->_redirect('');
}
catch (Exception $e) {
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('Unable to send.');
$this->_redirect('');
}

Answer 2

It looks like there are a few problems with the way you are calling sendTransactional(). First off, $templateId is not defined, it looks like you've actually stored the template id in $emailId. Also, $sender, $email, and $name are undefined. You can try something like this:
->sendTransactional($emailId, 'general', $post['email'], "Need a send to name here")
This is only going to work if you are getting a valid template id back from your call to getStoreConfig(). You'll also need to set the last name param correctly.
There could be other issues, but that's what I noticed with a quick glance anyway.

Answer 3

Finally i created a function for sending mail by using zend
public function sendMail()
{
$post = $this->getRequest()->getPost();
if ($post){
$random=rand(1234,2343);
$to_email = $this->getRequest()->getParam("email");
$to_name = 'Hello User';
$subject = ' Test Mail- CS';
$Body="Test Mail Code : ";
$sender_email = "sender#sender.com";
$sender_name = "sender name";
$mail = new Zend_Mail(); //class for mail
$mail->setBodyHtml($Body); //for sending message containing html code
$mail->setFrom($sender_email, $sender_name);
$mail->addTo($to_email, $to_name);
//$mail->addCc($cc, $ccname); //can set cc
//$mail->addBCc($bcc, $bccname); //can set bcc
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$msg ='';
try {
if($mail->send())
{
$msg = true;
}
}
catch(Exception $ex) {
$msg = false;
//die("Error sending mail to $to,$error_msg");
}
$this->getResponse()->setBody(Mage::helper('core')->jsonEncode($msg));
}
}