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This free plugin lets you send an email from within an ExpressionEngine template without the user submitting a form. It works in both EE v1.x and v2.x.
It’s probably most likely to be useful when placed within an embedded template that is loaded using ajax by some user action in the parent template.
Michael Rog has written a similar plugin: Email-from-Template.
Documentation
Thu 15 Apr ’10
2:54pm
Adam Khan
Sophia, try parse=“inward”. If that doesn’t work, I’ll have to work on it to get variables working.
Thu 15 Apr ’10
9:14pm
Sophia Browne
Hi, I tried the parse=inward and that didn’t work either.
Fri 16 Apr ’10
8:30pm
Adam Khan
Sophia, thanks for trying. I’ve added that to the plugin’s roadmap. Can’t say with confidence when exactly I’ll get to it though.
Fri 16 Apr ’10
11:14pm
Sophia Browne
Ok, that’s no problem. I will just workaround it.
Thanks anyways.
Tue 20 Apr ’10
10:27pm
Kurt
I’m very interested in this. I’ve been asked to create a sort of tell-a-friend/e-card that self submits after a freeform is submitted. This might be a great way to make that happen.
Tue 4 May ’10
5:45pm
Nick Benson
I’m getting the following error on my EE 2 site, any thoughts?
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A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Use of undefined constant PATH_CORE - assumed ‘PATH_CORE’
Filename: send_email/pi.send_email.php
Line Number: 74
Sun 11 Jul ’10
1:56am
jimboJ
Any news following on from Nick Benson’s comment above? Having the same issue…
Tue 10 Aug ’10
8:50pm
Kyle Batson
I have a request that allows using conditionals inside the message. I’m populating the message field with some custom fields, and if that custom field is not present, I don’t want it to show up. Something simple like {if custom_field}Content here{/if}
Also, might you know why having ‘http://’ in the message field outputs as encoded HTML character entities instead? Is there a way this can be switched from within the plugin?
Thanks.
Wed 25 Aug ’10
6:08am
Adam Khan
Sorry for not responding, people, I’ve been a bit swamped and haven’t had time to address issues on the free plugins.
Nick and JimboJ, I haven’t yet figured out why the PHP notice is happening, sorry!
Kyle, the encoding is happening within EE’s built-in functions that the plugin’s calling—I’ll have to look further to see how to disable that.
Wed 29 Sep ’10
2:42pm
Sophia Browne
Hi,
I added to the send email plugin since I had the same HTML character entities problem.
I added a function from the Regular expressions class to the -> $E->message($REGX->unhtmlentities($message)); Don’t forget to call the class -> global $REGX; // EEv1 syntax.
The unhtmlentities function takes a string and returns with all entities turned into their characters. http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/development/reference/regex.html
In a bit of a hurry, so I have to keep this short, hope this helps!
Mon 10 Jan ’11
12:38pm
Adam Khan
Sophie, it’s months later, my apologies for leaving you in the lurch there, presume you got it fixed!
Mon 10 Jan ’11
5:13pm
Sophia Pitt-Browne
Yes Adam, I did!
Thu 17 Mar ’11
6:51am
Stuart
Re: Use of undefined constant PATH_CORE
Looking at the file and the structure of 1.6 V 2.0.1 that the file it’s referencing “core.email” no longer exists in 2.1.X
No idea how to amend or what to amend to :(
Fri 22 Apr ’11
1:41pm
James
I’m getting the same PHP error as Nick, did anyone ever find a way round it?
Tue 24 May ’11
3:11pm
Jim
Any idea when yo might add the functionality for variables?
Tue 2 Aug ’11
3:34pm
Tiffany
I got this to work on EE 2.1.3 by replacing the send email code with this:
// Send email
$this->EE->load->library(‘email’);
$this->EE->email->initialize();
if ($from_email && $from_name)
{
$this->EE->email->from($from_email, $from_name);
}
else
{
$this->EE->email->from($PREFS->ini(‘webmaster_email’), $PREFS->ini(‘webmaster_name’));
}
$this->EE->email->to($to);
if ($subject)
{
$this->EE->email->subject($subject);
}
else
{
$this->EE->email->subject( “Email from ” . $PREFS->ini(‘site_name’) );
}
$this->EE->email->message($message);
$this->EE->email->Send();
Mon 23 Jan ’12
10:43pm
Adam Khan
Tiffany, a very belated thanks for fixing the plugin. Working for me on EE2. Not sure now though on EE1, will have to check.
Wed 7 Mar ’12
8:33pm
Toby Callinan
Just wondering…
Does this plugin work when it’s submit? It mentions that it works without submitting a form. Does that mean I can set up a cron job that will then just send an email?
I’m tring to find a method to send emails after a query I the DB that pulls out certain users - ths might be perfect!
Wed 7 Mar ’12
8:39pm
Adam Khan
Toby,
No form involved, just sends an email when the template containing the tag is loaded. Nice when loaded with ajax.
Tue 10 Apr ’12
3:32pm
Rob Stokes
If I understand correctly ... the from name, from email address, to email address and subject all have to be hard-coded into the template. It is not possible, for example, to look at a channel entry and pull out the details from there?
I was hoping to use this plug-in to send a “thank you” notification email to a user after they had filled in a form (with which I am using Safecracker to store the entered details in a channel) on the site. The “to” email address at the very least will be dynamic.
Can I not do this with this plug-in?
Tue 10 Apr ’12
3:42pm
Rob Stokes
Thought I’d better say ... I’ve tried putting the {exp:channel:entries} code directly within the send_email tag, as well as calling the result via a snippet and an embed, but none worked. Works fine when I hard-code the details.
Fri 11 May ’12
3:22pm
Michael Rog
Rob, try wrapping the Send_email plugin INSIDE of the Channel:Entries tag, and use parse=“inward” on the outer tag. Then you can use the email address variables from your entries as the parameters of Send_email.
Thu 21 Jun ’12
5:47pm
Laurence Cope
This is a great little plugin. I am combining it with EEI_TCPDF to generate a PDF from a template then saves it, and uses Send Email to attach and email it.
So I have modified your file to add attach, I think you should update it, its very useful…
$attachment = $TMPL->fetch_param(‘attachment’);
// Attach attachment
if($attachment != ‘’)
{
$this->EE->email->attach($attachment);
}
Fri 22 Jun ’12
12:52pm
Adam Khan
Thanks Laurence, will add that in for next release!
Fri 28 Sep ’12
4:30am
Craig Allen
I’ve tried it with mailtype=“html”, but all the html is being displayed in email clients. What might be the cause of this? I’m using EE 2.5.2
Thu 26 Jun ’14
3:31pm
Jamie Blacker
It says that the mailtype parameter was added in 2010, but it doesn’t seem to be in V1.4.
To add it in:
$mailtype = $TMPL->fetch_param(‘mailtype’);
if ($mailtype == “html”)
{
$this->EE->email->mailtype = ‘html’;
}
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12:12am
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Thu 15 Apr ’10
1:21pm
Sophia Browne
Does this plugin allow dynamic variables? I am trying to use {site_name} and {webmaster_email} and they are not being processed.