Thank you for the response, Andrew. In my test (using a view file that just contains static text), $this->response->body seemed to return an empty string due to ViewBlock->get having an empty $ViewBlock->_blocks value (as to what $_blocks is or how it's set, I've no idea).
I don't suppose anyone has any other ideas? I've tried switching to using CakeEmail for sending email to take advantage of layouts and views and there's a bug preventing me from connecting to my SMTP server's TLS connection (which I have to report), so neither solution is currently working for me. :-/ Getting templates to work with a third party library would be easier for me! On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 4:14:48 PM UTC-5, Andrew Lechowicz wrote: > > It looks like `Controller::render()` sets the body on the CakeResponse > object and then returns the CakeResponse object: > http://api.cakephp.org/2.6/source-class-Controller.html#922-962. I would > imagine you could access the rendered view like so: > public function test() > { > $this->render('/Emails/html/test', false); > $emailBody = $this->response->body; > // Do what you want with $emailBody here > } > > > > On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 5:33:35 PM UTC-5, BrendonKoz wrote: >> >> For various reasons I had decided to use a 3rd party email library within >> my current CakePHP project. I thought that it might be nice to use >> CakePHP's Views to create templating for my emails and take advantage of >> layouts too. Unfortunately I'm stumped on just how to retrieve the rendered >> output of a view back to the Controller method. >> >> I've tried the following: >> >> public function test() { >> $this->layout = false; >> #$this->view = '/Emails/html/test.ctp'; >> $var = $this->render('/Emails/html/test', false); >> pr($var->_body); die(); >> } >> >> $var->_body is protected (as denoted by the underscore). I saw no other >> property within the $var variable that contained the "body" code within my >> (template) view. >> >> Are there any ways to do this that I'm just not seeing? If so, can I >> safely presume that layouts would be handled in a similar fashion? >> >> Thank you for any possible help... >> > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
