How do I let two apps in Symfony share components?

Question

I have frontend and admin apps in Symfony 1.2/Doctrine and both generate email messages. I see a lot of shared code doing the email between the two apps. If I wanted to consolidate the email into one component, where would it reside? Doesn't seem like it should go in the model. Suggestions?

Answer 1

Edit: Sorry I thought you also want to share the email text between applications, i.e. sending the same email from different applications. Anyway, an event handler could be interesting for you.

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Best way (i.e. cleanest approach): Create a custom event handler that listens to a custom event and raise your event where appropriate. More about events in symfony.

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Another approach: Put your email text into a template. You can do the same and use a shared template folder this way. But then you have to duplicate the logic to send the email.

Or you put the text and the code to send the email into a separate class and put it into the global lib folder.

If sending the email is not business logic but some kind of notification, don't put it into the model.

Answer 2

In my Symfony projects I find that makes sense to have an Email.class.php class in lib/ with

<?php

class Email
{
  public static function sendEmail($body, $bodyTxt, $subject, $to, $replyto = null){
   ...
  }
}

And then you can call it from everywhere with Email::sendEmail(...) after clearing cache.