B4J Tutorial [BANano] Send Emails using PHP (Without Attachments)

Hi Fam

BANAnoInlinePhp is a functionality in BANano to call PHP functions. You can have PHP embedded in BANano inside #If PHP #End If tags.

In AppStart, ensure that you configure PHP to work

'set php settings
BANano.PHP_NAME = "appname.php"
BANano.PHPHost = "http://www.mydomain.com/appname"
BANano.PHPAddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *")

Remember, the PHPHost should match exactly to the path of your PHP parent folder. For public hosting, this is the actual webserver address & not localhost.

We will define a couple of functions to send email. To send the email in this case, we will specify from, to, cc, subject and message.

'build code to send email
'to send email via gmail, you need to set less secure apps on https://myaccount.google.com/
Sub BuildSendEmail(fromEmail As String, toEmail As String, ccEmail As String, subject As String, message As String) As Map
    message = message.replace(CRLF,"|")
    Dim Se As Map = CreateMap()
    Se.put("from", fromEmail)
    Se.put("to", toEmail)
    Se.put("cc", ccEmail)
    Se.put("subject", subject)
    Se.put("msg", message)
    Return Se
End Sub

'send an email
'to send email via gmail, you need to set less secure apps on https://myaccount.google.com
'1. Click Security
'<code>
''send an email
'to send email via gmail, you need to set less secure apps on https://myaccount.google.com
'Dim bOK As Boolean = BANano.Await(SendEmailWait("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "Test Email", "Have you received this||..."))
'</code>
Sub SendEmailWait(fromEmail As String, toEmail As String, ccEmail As String, subject As String, message As String) As Boolean
    Dim res As String = BANano.CallInlinePHPWait("SendEmail", BuildSendEmail(fromEmail, toEmail, ccEmail, subject, message))    'ignore
    Dim result As Map = BANano.FromJson(res)
    Dim sstatus As String = result.Get("status")
  c  If sstatus = "success" Then
        Return True
    Else
        Return False
    End If
End Sub

Now, we will add PHP script inside our BANano App

#if PHP
function SendEmail($from,$to,$cc,$subject,$msg) {
    $msg = str_replace("|", "\r\n", $msg);
    $msg = str_replace("\n.", "\n..", $msg);
    // use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
    //$msg = wordwrap($msg,70,"\r\n");
    //define from header
    $headers = "From:" . $from . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To:" . $from . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Cc: " . $cc . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer:PHP/" . phpversion();
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    //$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"."\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"."\r\n";
    // send email
    $response = (mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers)) ? "success" : "failure";
    $output = json_encode(array("response" => $response));
    header('content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
    die($output);
    }
#End If

The php code here will be included in the appname.php file when the project is being compiled.

To send our email, we will just call

Dim bOK As Boolean = BANano.Await(SendEmailWait("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "Test Email", "Have you received this||..."))

In our app.

Enjoy!

PS:

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[Gianni M]

a little update

Sub SendEmailWait(fromEmail As String, toEmail As String, ccEmail As String, subject As String, message As String) As Boolean
    Dim res As String = BANano.CallInlinePHPWait("SendEmail", BuildSendEmail(fromEmail, toEmail, ccEmail, subject, message))    'ignore
    Dim result As Map = BANano.FromJson(res)
    ''''' Dim sstatus As String = result.Get("status")
    Dim sstatus As String = result.Get("response")
'see script PHP
'
' $response = (mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers)) ? "success" : "failure";
'    $output = json_encode(array("response" => $response));
'    header('content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
'    die($output);

ciao

 

[Gianni M]

great;
in my project i have several "pages";
do i have to include the "php" script in all pages?
or is it possible to have a module that contains "php"?

 

[Mashiane]

great;
in my project i have several "pages";
do i have to include the "php" script in all pages?
or is it possible to have a module that contains "php"?

No, you dont have to include the php that is inside #if php #end if in all the pages.

Yes you can have 1 module with all the php scripts.

 

[Gianni M]

but,
'SendEmail is a function name php in same module;
if i have 1 module with the php, do I have to change something?

Dim res As String = BANano.CallInlinePHPWait("SendEmail",

 

[Gianni M]

i have a new php script for send email with a attach file (example "/documents/invoice.pdf")
after verification I will post the code