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Will
Will

Reputation: 1393

How do I send an email notification when programatically creating a Drupal user?

I am trying to create a user using code. I have the following that created the user. It however does not send an email to the user saying that the account has been created. How can I do that?

$newUser = array(
  'name' => 'username',
  'pass' => 'password', // note: do not md5 the password
  'mail' => 'email address',
  'status' => 1,
  'init' => 'email address'
);           
user_save(null, $newUser);

Upvotes: 7

Views: 15175

Answers (7)

milkovsky
milkovsky

Reputation: 8862

You can use the standard _user_mail_notify() function from the Drupal core's "User" module.

   // Create user.
   $new_user = array(
      'name' => $username,
      'pass' => $password, 
      'mail' => $email,
      'status' => 1,
      'init' => $email,
      'roles' => array(DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID => TRUE),
    );  
   $account = user_save(NULL, $new_user);
   // Set operation.
   $op = 'register_no_approval_required';
   // Send an email.
   _user_mail_notify($op, $account);

There are different values of $op:

 /* @param $op
 *   The operation being performed on the account. Possible values:
 *   - 'register_admin_created': Welcome message for user created by the admin.
 *   - 'register_no_approval_required': Welcome message when user
 *     self-registers.
 *   - 'register_pending_approval': Welcome message, user pending admin
 *     approval.
 *   - 'password_reset': Password recovery request.
 *   - 'status_activated': Account activated.
 *   - 'status_blocked': Account blocked.
 *   - 'cancel_confirm': Account cancellation request.
 *   - 'status_canceled': Account canceled.*/

Upvotes: 30

Amir Razavi
Amir Razavi

Reputation: 1

The standard way may change your code a bit, like this (change from user_save and add the rest);

$account = user_save('', $newUser); //the first parameter is left blank so a new user is created

  // If you want to send the welcome email, use the following code
  // Manually set the password so it appears in the e-mail.
  $account->password = $newUser['pass'];

  // Send the e-mail through the user module.
  drupal_mail('user', 'register_no_approval_required',
    $email, NULL, array('account' => $account), variable_get('site_mail', '[email protected]'));

Upvotes: 0

bjunc
bjunc

Reputation: 952

The above answers pretty much all do the same thing, but jump into the chain at different points; some requiring additional modules; and some referring to system forms.

Personally, while the Rules module can accomplish this for you, it seems a bit contradictory to programmatically create a user, then use the UI to send the notification.

I would opt for using the _user_mail_notify() method and passing the operation you want (register_pending_approval, register_no_approval_required, etc.). This puts you in the chain low enough that you aren't relying on additional modules, but high enough that you're tapping into Drupal registration logic.

Upvotes: 0

Alejandro Moreno
Alejandro Moreno

Reputation: 5718

implement hook_mail:

function YOURMODULE_mail($key, &$message, $params) {

  drupal_set_message('email test');

  switch ($key) {
    case 'mymail':
      // Set headers etc
      $message['to'] = '[email protected]';
      $message['subject'] = t('Hello');
      $message['body'][] = t('Hello @username,', array('@username' => $params['username']));
      $message['body'][] = t('The main part of the message.');
      break;
}
}

then, use the drupal_mail() function:

$result = drupal_mail('example', 'mymail','[email protected]', 'en', 'params','[email protected]', '[email protected]');

Upvotes: 0

jhedstrom
jhedstrom

Reputation: 3388

If you want to mimic how Drupal core handles this, take a look at user_register_submit(). That is the function that reacts to the checkbox you mention above, and if notifications are desired, passes the saved user object into _user_mail_notify(), which handles the sending of the message.

Upvotes: 1

pasine
pasine

Reputation: 11543

You could use Rules. You can add an action to be fired when user is created.

Upvotes: -3

wajiw
wajiw

Reputation: 12269

Have you implemented user_register_notify? http://drupal.org/project/user_register_notify

Here are the instructions on how to set it up: http://drupal.org/node/97183/cvs-instructions/HEAD

Upvotes: 2

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