How to use the Symfony mailer component to send emails?

@haylee.mertz 

To use the Symfony mailer component to send emails, you need to follow these steps:

1. Install the Symfony mailer component using Composer:

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composer require symfony/mailer

1. Configure your email server settings in your Symfony application's .env file or .env.local file. Here's an example for using a Gmail account to send emails:

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MAILER_DSN=gmail+smtp://<YOUR_GMAIL_ADDRESS>:<YOUR_GMAIL_PASSWORD>@smtp.gmail.com

1. In your Symfony controller or service, import the SymfonyComponentMailerMailerInterface class and inject it as a dependency. For example:

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use SymfonyComponentMailerMailerInterface;

class MyController
{
    private $mailer;

    public function __construct(MailerInterface $mailer)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
    }

    // ...
}

1. Use the MailerInterface to create and send an email. Here's an example of creating and sending a basic email:

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use SymfonyComponentMailerMailerInterface;
use SymfonyComponentMimeEmail;

class MyController
{
    private $mailer;

    public function __construct(MailerInterface $mailer)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
    }

    public function sendEmail()
    {
        $email = (new Email())
            ->from('[email protected]')
            ->to('[email protected]')
            ->subject('Hello!')
            ->text('This is a test email.');

        $this->mailer->send($email);
    }
}

You can also add attachments, HTML content, and more to your emails using the Email class. For more information, see the Symfony documentation on the mailer component: https://symfony.com/doc/current/mailer.html.

@haylee.mertz 

To use the Symfony mailer component to send emails, follow these steps:

1. Install the Symfony mailer component using Composer by running the following command in your terminal:composer require symfony/mailer
2. Configure the mailer component in your config/packages/mailer.yaml file. Here is an example configuration for using Gmail as the email service provider:# config/packages/mailer.yaml framework: mailer: dsn: 'smtp://smtp.googlemail.com:587?encryption=tls&auth_mode=login&username=<your_username>&password=<your_password>' Replace <your_username> and <your_password> with your Gmail email address and password respectively.
3. Create a new email message by creating a class that extends SymfonyComponentMimeEmail. Here's an example:// src/Emails/RegistrationEmail.php namespace AppEmails; use SymfonyComponentMimeEmail; class RegistrationEmail extends Email { public function __construct(string $recipient) { parent::__construct(); $this->to($recipient); $this->subject('Welcome to My Website'); $this->html('<p>Thank you for registering on my website.</p>'); } }
4. In your controller or service, create a new instance of the email message and send it using the mailer component. Here's an example:// src/Controller/RegistrationController.php namespace AppController; use AppEmailsRegistrationEmail; use SymfonyComponentHttpFoundationResponse; use SymfonyComponentRoutingAnnotationRoute; use SymfonyBundleFrameworkBundleControllerAbstractController; use SymfonyComponentMailerMailerInterface; class RegistrationController extends AbstractController { /** * @Route("/register") */ public function register(MailerInterface $mailer): Response { $email = new RegistrationEmail('[email protected]'); $mailer->send($email); return new Response('Registration successful!'); } } In this example, the register() method sends the RegistrationEmail message to the recipient specified in the constructor. The MailerInterface is automatically injected by Symfony's dependency injection system.

That's it! You should now be able to send emails using the Symfony mailer component.