I have a legacy application where an email.cfm
file is used with a cfmail
tag to send e-mail:
<cfmail from="abc@123.com" to="def@456.com" subject="New e-mail!">
// lots of HTML
</cfmail>
Now I'd like to update it for ColdFusion Model Glue 3. I want to send it using a mail
object in the controller, and include in the body a CFM page:
var mail = new mail();
mail.setFrom("abc@123.com");
mail.setTo("def@456.com");
mail.setSubject("New e-mail!");
mail.setBody( ** SOME CFM FILE ** );
mail.send();
Does anybody have any idea how I can do this?
I ended up following Henry's advice in the comments and created a CFML-based CFC:
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="SendMail">
<cfargument name="from"/>
<cfargument name="to"/>
<cfargument name="subject"/>
<cfmail from="#from#" to="#to#" subject="#subject#">
<!--- HTML for e-mail body here --->
</cfmail>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
Dave Long's suggestion is also good, which is to create components using <cfcomponent>
, then wrapping the code in <cfscript>
tags. This gives you the ability to fall back to CFML in case the there is no cfscript equivalent or it's easier to do with CFML:
<cfcomponent>
<cfscript>
void function GetData()
{
RunDbQuery();
}
</cfscript>
<cffunction name="RunDbQuery">
<cfquery name="data">
SELECT * FROM ABC;
</cfquery>
<cfreturn data>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>