#5904: Cannot load EmailComponent from within MyComponent and send an email
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Reporter: patcoll | Owner:
Type: Bug | Status: reopened
Priority: Medium | Milestone: 1.2.x.x
Component: Components | Version: RC4
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Php_version: PHP 5
Cake_version: |
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Changes (by patcoll):
* status: closed => reopened
* resolution: invalid =>
Comment:
I have read bugreport. I see no duplicates nor have I gotten any IRC
response. Here's the situation:
=== what i did ===
I put this in a custom Component of mine:
{{{
var $components = array('Email');
}}}
I then used the `EmailComponent::send()` method from within a method
called `email()` in my custom Component.
=== what i expected ===
What I expected to happen was for the email to be sent using the
`EmailComponent`. This is not what happened.
=== what happened ===
This error:
{{{
Undefined property: EmailComponent::$Controller
[CORE/cake/libs/controller/components/email.php, line 352]
}}}
I did some digging and discovered that EmailComponent assigns a reference
to the controller that loads it into a variable called
`EmailComponent::$Controller`. This assignment would work fine if
EmailComponent were being used directly by a controller, but instead it's
being used via a custom component. I was able to fix this error by
including this code in my custom component:
{{{
function startup(&$controller){
$this->Email->startup($controller);
}
}}}
As an apparent design decision made by the core team to allow recursive
loading of components, it seems odd that EmailComponent, a core component
itself, would break this design by not allowing developers to use its core
functionality inside of a custom component without this overhead. I see no
necessity in this overhead.
To promote better code decoupling in Cake core, I'd suggest taking out
this dependency, unless a reasonable use case is presented.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/5904#comment:2>
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