problem with pmdatadir

[shhariprasadsh]

Hi,
I was looking for a bulk mailer for my CMS and I downloaded Personalized Mailer. As instructed I installed sparks manager and it worked fine. Then I installed personalized mailer and initialized like this

function send_bulk_mail(){
        $this->load->spark('PersonalizedMailer/1.0.3'); 
        $this->load->library('personalizedmailer',array(
            'pmdatadir' => '/log',
            'domain'    =>  'intern'        
        ));
        // mail ids
        $addresses = array(
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]' 
        );

        $names = array(
            'Hari',
            'Nandhu',
            'Bigil',
            'Praveen',
            'Hariprasad',
            'Saravana'      
        );

        $groups = array(
            'A',
            'B',
            'C',
            'D',
            'E',
            'F'     
        );

        $msgtemplate = "<p>Hello [name],<br/>

            This is an <strong>HTML</strong> message. You have been assigned to group: [group]</p>";

        // initialize a queue
        $this->personalizedmailer->initqueue(array(
            'addresses' =>  $addresses,
            'msgtemplate' => $msgtemplate,
            'subject' => 'Test Message',
            'fromname' => 'Test Person',
            'fromaddr' => '[email protected]',
            'HTML' => true,
            'loopdelay' => 0.75,
            'varsearch' => array('[name]', '[group]'),
            'varreplace' => array($names, $groups)
        ));
    }

The 'log' directory mentioned here is created inside the library where the personalizedmailer.php resides. The log directory permission is set to 777. But when I run the code it shows the following error

ERROR: missing personalized message lib working directory for staging mailings

I suppose this is because of the pmdatadir I have created . Please help me out.

Thank you
Hariprasad S H

[shhariprasadsh]

any help ????

[joeauty]

Do you really have a /log directory at the root of your OS filesystem? You'll need root permissions to create that directory. The path is not relative to your website.

[shhariprasadsh]

Hi Joe,
Thanks a lot for the update... Actually the problem was with the path of the pmdatadir. The whole thing worked now but it got a small problem. The mails were sent but it shows a warning like this

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given

Filename: libraries/personalizedmailer.php

Line Number: 165

My function is given below

function send_bulk_mail(){
        $this->load->spark('PersonalizedMailer/1.0.3'); 
        $this->load->library('personalizedmailer',array(
            'pmdatadir' => '../intern/mail',
            'domain'    =>  'devintern'     
        ));
        // mail ids
        $addresses = array(
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]',
            '[email protected]' 
        );

        $names = array(
            'Hari',
            'Nandhu',
            'Bigil',
            'Praveen',
            'Hariprasad',
            'Saravana'      
        );

        $groups = array(
            'A',
            'B',
            'C',
            'D',
            'E',
            'F'     
        );

        $msgtemplate = "<p>Hello [name],<br/>

            This is an <strong>HTML</strong> message. You have been assigned to group: [group]</p>";

        // initialize a queue
        $this->personalizedmailer->initqueue(array(
            'addresses' =>  $addresses,
            'msgtemplate' => $msgtemplate,
            'subject' => 'Test Message',
            'fromname' => 'Test Person',
            'fromaddr' => '[email protected]',
            'HTML' => true,
            'loopdelay' => 0.75,
            'varsearch' => array('[name]', '[group]'),
            'varreplace' => array($names, $groups)
        ));
        if ( !isset($_SERVER['argv'])) exit('CLI access only');             

                $this->personalizedmailer->sendtolist();
    }

[joeauty]

I'm glad to have helped!

Your function should be invoked via the command line, not via a web browser. The whole point of this Spark is to provide command line triggered mail list functions that can be controlled a little better than big jobs can be controlled via a web interface.

Are you familiar with how CodeIgniter can be used via the command line? It's actually really easy.

[shhariprasadsh]

Nope can you help me out?

[joeauty]

Sure! Have you looked at this page yet? http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/cli.html

[shhariprasadsh]

yes I was going through that documentation. Actually my need is , I have a list of users in the admin panel of my CMS. I want to send mails to the selected contacts. Can I accomplish that using this? Please excuse me if the question seem silly. I am a novice in codeigniter thats why :)

[joeauty]

Sure, you can pull the addresses and all other data from your database, it's just that your "send now" button, so to speak, has to be invoked via the command line.