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ImpressPages has ipSendEmail function for sending e-mail messages from your plugins. Usage of this function for all email activities is recommended because:

  • data is escaped to prevent spam being send injecting code in recipient addres
  • you can easily controll how many emails per hour can be send on your server
  • you can see all email activity in administration panel

All emails sent by ipSendEmail are sent immediatelly or placed to the queue for processing later if hourly limit is reached.

Send an e-mail

<?php
ipSendEmail("[email protected]", "Sender name", "[email protected]", "Recipient name", "Email subject", "<div>Hello John Smith, </div><div>This is a test e-mail.</div>");

Send non-urgent e-mail

When you send a newsletter to thousands of recipients, you can easily exhaust your hourly limit. Mark these emails as non urgent by adding false as seventh parameter. This will instruct email queue to leave 20% of throughput. And send the rest of the emails later on.

<?php
ipSendEmail(
    "[email protected]", 
    "My Website", 
    "[email protected]", 
    "John Smith", 
    "Test e-mail", 
    "<div>This is non-urgent e-mail message.</div>",
    false
);

Send an e-mail in plain text

<?php
ipSendEmail(
    "[email protected]", 
    "My Website", 
    "[email protected]", 
    "John Smith", 
    "Newsletter test", 
    "Hello John Smith,\r\nThis is a test newsletter.", 
    true,
    false
);

Send an e-mail with file attachments

To attach files to your e-mail message, provide function arguments with an array of file names, as in example below: 

<?php

$files = array(ipFile('file/tmp/readme.txt'), ipFile('file/tmp/picture.jpg'));

ipSendEmail(
    "[email protected]", 
    "My Website", 
    "[email protected]", 
    "John Smith", 
    "Test e-mail with attachment", 
    "See the files attached.", 
    true, 
    true, 
    $files
);

Get website's email

<?php
ipGetOptionLang('Config.websiteEmail');

Email template

Use ipEmailTemplate function to generate email looking the same as all other emails on the system.  You can pass title, signature and footer variables alongside the content.

$emailData = array(
    'content' => $content
);

$emailHtml = ipEmailTemplate($emailData);

This function uses Ip/Internal/Config/view/email.php view to render the HTML. You can override it in your theme and all emails sent by ImpressPages will have a new look.

See also

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