Friday, March 19th, 2010 (updated 26 Jan ’12)

Send Email v1.4 (Free)

 

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.

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.

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?

————————-

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?

Wed 22 Jun ’11
2:44pm

Ryan

Hey James, I am also getting the same PHP error as Nick. I have tried everything that I’m aware of, but nothing is working. I’ll just have to be patient, kick my shoes off, and try working around my issue. I seem to get flustered when I can’t get anywhere. I’ll let everyone know if I come up with something.

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.

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