Sending our First Email

Let's take a trip! "Visit Krypton", Hopefully it hasn't been destroyed yet! Without bothering to check, let's book it! this out: I'll use name: "Kevin", email: "kevin@example.com" and just any date in the future. Hit "Book Trip".

This is the "booking details" page. Note the URL: it has a unique token specific to this booking. If a user needs to come back here later, currently, they need to bookmark this page or Slack themselves the URLm if they're like me. Lame! Let's send them a confirmation email that includes a link to this page.

I want this to happen after the booking is first saved. Open TripController and find the show() method. This makes the booking: if the form is valid, create or fetch a customer and create a booking for this customer and trip. Then we redirect to the booking details page. Delightfully boring so far, just how I like my code and weekends.

I want to send an email after the booking is created. Give yourself some room by moving each argument to its own line. Then, add MailerInterface $mailer to get the master service for sending emails. After flush(), which inserts the trip into the database create a new email object: $email = new Email() (the one from Symfony\Component\Mime). Wrap it in parentheses so we can chain methods. So what does every email need? A from email address: ->from() hoe about info@univeral-travel.com. A to email address: ->to($customer->getEmail()). Now, the subject: ->subject() "Booking Confirmation". And finally, the email needs a body: ->text() Start with "Your booking has been confirmed".

Finish with $mailer->send($email). Let's test this out!

Back in our app, go back to the homepage and choose a trip. For the name, use "Steve", email, "steve@minecraft.com", any date in the future and book the trip.

Ok... this page looks exactly the same as before. Was an email sent? Nothing in the web debug toolbar seems to indicate this...

The email was actually sent on the previous request - the form submit. That controller then redirected us to this page. But the web debug toolbar gives us a shortcut to access the profiler for the previous request: hover over 200 and click the profiler link to get there.

Check out the sidebar - we have a new "Emails" tab! And it shows 1 email was sent.We did it! Click it, and here's our email! The from, to, subject, and body are all what we expect.

Remember, we're using the null mailer transport, so this email wasn't actually sent, but it's super cool we can still preview it in the profiler!

Though ... I think we both know this email... is... pretty crappy.

it doesn't give any of the useful info! No URL to the booking details page, no destination, no date, no nothing! It's so useless, I'm glad the null transport is just throwing it out the space window.

Let's fix that next!