Custom email sending in magento custom module

Question

I am working on a module that will send an email after 7 days of order completion. I\'m stuck on sending emails. I can see the email template in transactional emails drop down i

Answer 1

Change your etc/config.xml code to below:

Change your controller code to below:

$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
            ->loadDefault('recurring_order_email_template');

    $emailTemplateVariables = array();
    $emailTemplateVariables['var1'] = 'var1 value';
    $emailTemplateVariables['var2'] = 'var 2 value';
    $emailTemplateVariables['var3'] = 'var 3 value';

   $emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($emailTemplateVariables);

   $emailTemplate->setSenderName('sender name');
   $emailTemplate->setSenderEmail('sender@test.com');
    try {
   $emailTemplate->send($recipientEmail, $senderName, $emailTemplateVariables);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo $e->getMessage();
    } 

Change your $recipientEmail, $senderName & $emailTemplateVariables as per your need.

To load a email template, you must specifiy the tag name after

that you provided in the config.xml