Capifony: Send an email after deployment

First, thanks to @cordoval at the #symfony channel for suggesting me to use a symfony2 command to do this.

To use this command you must have the SwiftmailerBundle enabled. More info here.

This is a simple Symfony2 command to send an email, you should add it to a "Command" directory inside your bundle and replace the namespace to fit your project bundle:

	namespace VayaFeliz\SiteBundle\Command;
	use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Command\Command;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
	class SendEmailCommand extends Command
	{
	protected function configure()
	{
	$this
	->setName('capifony:sendemail')
	->setDescription('Send email')
	->addArgument('emailfrom', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'What\'s the sender email address?')
	->addArgument('emailto', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'What\'s the recipient email address?')
	->addArgument('subject', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'What\'s the email subject?')
	;
	}
	protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
	{
	$emailfrom = $input->getArgument('emailfrom');
	$emailto = $input->getArgument('emailto');
	$subject = $input->getArgument('subject');
	if ($emailfrom && $emailto) {
	$message = \Swift_Message::newInstance()
	->setSubject($subject)
	->setFrom($emailfrom)
	->setTo($emailto)
	->setBody('test')
	;
	$this->container->get('mailer')->send($message);
	$text = "Email sent!";
	} else {
	$text = 'Email not sent';
	}
	$output->writeln($text);
	}
	}

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The email body is just "test" but you can probably modified it you need to.


Test the new command by running the following:

php app/console capifony:sendemail emailfrom@server.com emailto@server.com subject

Finally, this task will run the capifony:sendemail command after the deployment is complete, be sure to add it to your Capifony script:

	namespace :deploy do
	desc "Send notification email"
	task :sendemail do
	run("cd #{deploy_to}/current && php app/console deploy:sendemail emailfrom@server.com emailto@server.com \"Deploy Complete.\" ")
	end
	end
	after 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:sendemail'

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Want to learn more about Symfony2 console/command-line commands?

http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/console.html


http://www.craftitonline.com/2011/06/calling-commands-within-commands-in-symfony2/

How to enable the twig truncate filter (Text extension) in Symfony2 beta5

Problem ?

In previous versions of Symfony2, to enable a extension you needed to add the Text and/or Debug extensions to an "extensions" array in your config.yml

//app/config/config.yml
# Twig Configuration
twig:
 debug:            %kernel.debug%
 strict_variables: %kernel.debug%
 extensions:
     - twig.extension.debug
     - twig.extension.text

This was because the extensions were added to the twig.xml file

//vendor/symfony/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/Resources/config/twig.xml
...
  <service id="twig.extension.text" class="Twig_Extensions_Extension_Text" public="false">

     <service id="twig.extension.debug" class="Twig_Extensions_Extension_Debug" public="false">
...

But, this is the way to do it now :

// app/config/config.yml
...
services:
 twig.extension.text:
     class: Twig_Extensions_Extension_Text
     tags:
         - { name: twig.extension }

I spent some time trying to figure out how to do it, so I hope it helps someone.