[Catalyst] Sending email

[Jason Kohles]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Dave Richards wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> To get the first obvious point out of the way, yes, I'm a newbie to  
> Catalyst...
>
> I have developed a good little app, on the way to a much larger app  
> using Catalyst, and it is all going along great....then, I decided  
> to add email notifications to the system, that's when I have come  
> unstuck.
>
> I really am still getting my head around Catalyst, so I apologise  
> if this is a really dumb question.  I need to send an email from  
> within a function, here is the code snippet:
>
> $c->email(
> 	header => [
> 		To => $result->params->{email},
> 		Subject => 'User Registration' ],
> 	body => $c->view('TT')->render($c,'email/registered'),
> );
>
> And here is the error message:
>
> Caught exception in Arkadia::Controller::Users->register_do "Not a  
> SCALAR reference at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/Email/Simple.pm line 195."
>
I would suspect that render is returning a Template::Exception  
object, and since you aren't checking the return value, you are  
passing that on to Email::Simple, which doesn't know what to do with  
it...

my $body = $c->view( 'TT' )->render( $c, 'email/registered' );
if ( ref $body && $body->isa( 'Template::Exception' ) ) {
     die "Rendering template failed! ($body)";
}

$c->email(
	header => [
		To => $result->params->{email},
		Subject => 'User Registration',
	],
	body => $body,
);


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