Silverstripe 3 - send email with data of foreach-loop

Question

I want to send an email with the data of a foreach loop but I don't know how to get the data into the email body.

that's my current code

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    foreach($cartItems as $cartItem) {
        '<strong>' . $cartItem->Amount . 'x ' . $cartItem->Title . '</strong>' . '<span>' . $cartItem->Price . ' €/St. insgesamt ' . $cartItem->Sum . '</span><br>';
    }
...
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    $messageBody = " 
         foreach() Content should be here
    "; 
    $email->setBody($messageBody);
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can someone help me?

thank you in advance

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

Use the built in Silverstripe Email functionality to take advantage of Silverstripe's templating with your email.

With Silverstripe you can create a template for your email and populate it with whatever data you like.

Within your send function in your controller you can set the template with setTemplate and push data into the email template with populateTemplate:

$email = new Email($from, $to, $subject);

$email->setTemplate('EmailTemplate');

$email->populateTemplate(array(
    'CartItems' => $cartItems,
    'PageTitle' => $this->Title
));

$email->send();

Note that $cartItems has to be a ArrayList or DataList to be able to use <% loop %> in template. If $cartItems is an array, read how to convert it to ArrayList here.

Put your template into themes/mytheme/templates/Email/EmailTemplate.ss

EmailTemplate.ss

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    ...
</head>

<body>
    ...
    <% if $CartItems %>
    <% loop $CartItems %>
    ...
    <% end_loop %>
    <% end_if %>
    ...
</body>
</html>

Thanks for the edit @Zauberfisch. I added your comments in. Sorry the community didn't approve it. I appreciate the improvement. — 3dgoo, Mar 16 '14 at 04:22

Silverstripe 3 - send email with data of foreach-loop

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