Email-from-Template 1.5.0

Sends the tag contents in an e-mail (with or without echoing the contents back to the template).

I wrote this plugin was mostly a learning exercise, to get a knack for EE development. As I have come to find out, Adam Khan released a similar plugin, and his plugin can be installed on EE 1.6+ as well. (My Email-from-Template offers variable replacement, parameter defaults, and entity decoding, though.)

Installation

After you download the plugin files from the code repository, upload them to /system/expressionengine/third_party/email_from_template/ on your server. The installed plugin should appear in the Add-ons section of the CP.

Example: General Use

{exp:email_from_template to="admin@ee.com" from="server@ee.com" subject="Hello!"}
   This tag content is being viewed at {uri_string} by {httpagent}. Sending notification to {to}.
{/exp:email_from_template}

{if group_id == 1}

   My secret stuff goes here.

{if:else}

   {exp:email_from_template subject="Unauthorized Access!" echo="off"}
      Somebody tried to access the secret content at {uri_string} -- beware!
   {/exp:email_from_template}
   
   Sorry, nothing here for you.

{/if}

Parameters

to - destination email address (default: site webmaster)
cc - [optional] email address to carbon-copy
bcc - [optional] email address to blind-carbon-copy
from - sender email address (default: site webmaster)
subject - email subject line (default: template URI)
decode_subject_entities - Set to "no" if you don't want to parse the HTML entities in the subject line.
decode_message_entities - Set to "no" if you don't want to parse the HTML entities in the message text.
mailtype - "text" or "html"
alt_message - [optional] a text-only message (for email clients that don't support HTML email)
attachments - comma-separated list of server paths to files
echo - Set to "off" if you don't want to display the tag contents in the template.

Note: The to parameter accepts multiple email addresses, comma-separated.

Variables

{to}
{cc}
{bcc}
{from}
{subject}
{ip}
{httpagent}
{uri_string}

Use with other plugins and tags

When you want to email the output of other tags, put your {exp:email_from_template} tag inside the other tag and set parse="inward" on the outer tag(s).