Courier for Kirby

Courier offers a convenient and painless solution for creating emails tailored for your Kirby website. With Courier, you can streamline the process of email design and implementation for your site.

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Overview

• 1. Installation
• 2. Usage
• 3. Snippets
• 4. Console
• 5. Helper
• 6. Challenge
• 7. Testing email
• 8. Options
• 9. License
• 10. Credits

Installation

Download

Download and copy this repository to /site/plugins/kirby-courier.

Composer

composer require beebmx/kirby-courier

Usage

Courier comes with two email message types, and you can customize them for your convenience.

Notification message

The Notification message is the easiest way to send an email. You only need to use the Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Notification\Message class in your controller or in your own implementation. Here's an example:

use Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Notification\Message;

(new Message)
    ->to('[email protected]')
    ->line('Welcome to Kirby Courier')
    ->action('Visit', 'https://beeb.mx')
    ->send()

Formating notification messages

You have several methods to customize your Notification message. Here's an example with all the methods:

use Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Notification\Message;

(new Message)
    ->to('[email protected]')
    ->greeting('Hello friend!')
    ->line('Welcome to Kirby Courier')
    ->line('You can add more lines before an action')
    ->lines(['Multiple line 01', 'Multiple line 02'])
    ->lineIf($someCondition === true, 'You can add more lines before an action')
    ->linesIf($someCondition === false, ['Line 03', 'Line 04'])
    ->success()         // To set the action button as successful
    ->error()           // To set the action button as an error
    ->action('Action button', 'https://beeb.mx')
    ->line('You can add lines after an action')
    ->salutation('Good bye!')
    ->send()

Warning

You can only add one action per Notification message.

Mail message

The Mail message is the easiest way to send an email if you need to customize all the body of your email, you only need to use the Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Mail\Message class in your controller or in your own implementation. Here's an example:

use Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Mail\Message;

(new Message)
    ->to('[email protected]')
    ->template('marketing')
    ->send()

Note

It's important that you set a template to display your own customization. Every template should be located in your courier directory.

Formating mail messages

To create your own template for your mail messages, you need to create a file in the default location for Courier. Here's an example for a marketing message:

/*** /site/template/courier/marketing.php ***/

<?php snippet('courier/message', slots: true) ?>
<?php slot('body') ?>
# Hello Courier

The body of your courier message.

<?php snippet('courier/button', ['url' => ''], slots: true) ?>
Button
<?php endsnippet() ?>

Thanks,
<?= site()->title() ?>
<?php endslot() ?>
<?php endsnippet() ?>

Note

You can add content as markdown and it will be processed by kirbytext.

Message methods

For both Notifications and Mail messages, there are shared methods. Here's an example with all the methods:

use Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Mail\Message;

(new Message)
    ->preset('contact')                     // The preset should be available in your config.php file
    ->from('[email protected]')
    ->from('[email protected]', 'Webmaster')  // You can add a name to from address
    ->to('[email protected]')
    ->to('[email protected]')                     // You can add multiple recipients (TO)
    ->cc('[email protected]')
    ->cc('[email protected]')                     // You can add multiple recipients (CC)
    ->bcc('[email protected]')
    ->bcc('[email protected]')                    // You can add multiple recipients (BCC)
    ->replyTo('[email protected]')
    ->subject('Thank you for your contact request')
    ->theme('dark')                         // The theme should be available in your themes
    ->data(['name' => 'John Doe', 'position' => 'CEO']) // All the data available for the template
    ->attach($page->file('image.jpg'))
    ->attach($page->file('file.pdf'))       // You can add multiple files
    ->attachMany([$page->file('file.pdf'), $page->file('file.jpg')])
    ->render()                              // Returns a Content instance to visualize
    ->send()                                // Trigger to send the email

If you want to previsualize your email, you can do it in any template. Here's an example:

<?= (new Beebmx\KirbyCourier\Mail\Message)
    ->template('marketing')
    ->data(['name' => 'John Doe'])
    ->render()
    ->toHtml() ?>

Note

The render method doesn't trigger any email, and doesn't require any email settings like subject, from or to.

Snippets

For your convenience, Courier has some snippets to speed up your email building flow. You can add them in your courier template.

Note

You can create your own snippets if you want and apply it to the courier/message snippet. Just be sure to add it in the slot('body').

Button

<?php snippet('courier/button', ['url' => ''], slots: true) ?>
Button
<?php endsnippet() ?>

Panel

<?php snippet('courier/panel', slots: true) ?>
This is a panel
<?php endsnippet() ?>

Table

<?php snippet('courier/table', slots: true) ?>
| Content      | Info          | Currency  |
| ------------ | :-----------: | --------: |
| Content 01   | Centered      | $100      |
| Content 02   | Is centered   | $150      |
<?php endsnippet() ?>

Subcopy

<?php snippet('courier/subcopy', slots: true) ?>
This is a subcopy
<?php endsnippet() ?>

Console

If you are a Kirby CLI user, Courier also has you covered. The Courier commands can help you create Mail messages faster or even create your own Courier Theme.

You can create your Mail template with:

$ kirby make:courier <template>
$ kirby courier:make <template>

Note

courier:make is an alias of make:courier

Or may be you want to customize your messages with your own theme with:

$ kirby courier:theme <theme>

Helper

If dealing with namespaces is hard, or you feel confused using the same Message class name, you can simplify it with the courier helper:

For Notification message you can use:

courier('notification')
    ->to('[email protected]')
    ->line('This is a line')
    ->send()

For Mail message you can use:

courier('mail')
    ->to('[email protected]')
    ->template('marketing')
    ->send()

And of course, you can use it in a template to render it:

<?= courier('mail')
        ->template('marketing')
        ->render()
        ->toHtml() ?>

Challenge

Courier also provides a challenge message type to help you with your login and password reset flows. First, you need to set the challenge in your config.php file:

'auth' => [
    'challenges' => ['courier', 'email'],
],

Then, you can specify the methods you want to use in your config.php file:

'auth' => [
    'challenges' => ['courier', 'email'],
    'methods'   => ['password', 'code'],
],

Warning

Right now only code and password-reset are supported for the courier challenge.

Testing email

Courier comes out of the box with a panel area to help you test your email messages. You can change the label and icon from the config.php file.

'beebmx.courier' => [
    'panel' => [
        'label' => 'Testing',
        'icon' => 'wand',
    ],
],

Note

If you change the icon, be sure to use an available Kirby Panel icon from the official list.

If you only want to enable the testing area for specific user roles, you can do it with the roles option:

#bluprints/users/editor.yml

permissions:
  access:
    courier: false

If this option is not for you or all your users, you can disable it completely with:

'beebmx.courier' => [
    'panel' => false
],

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
beebmx.courier.logo	Closure,string,null	null	Set your own logo in every message.
beebmx.courier.path	string	courier	Set a path where the templates and themes are located.
beebmx.courier.from.address	int	4	Set the default form.address for every message.
beebmx.courier.from.name	int	2	Set the default form.name for every message.
beebmx.courier.message.greeting	string	Hello!	Set the default message.greeting for every message.
beebmx.courier.message.rights	string	All rights reserved.	Set the default message.rights for every message.
beebmx.courier.message.salutation	string	Regards	Set the default message.salutation for every message.
beebmx.courier.message.subject	string	Message from courier	Set the default message.subject for every message.
beebmx.courier.message.notify	string		Set the default message.notify for every message.
beebmx.courier.message.brand_name	?string	null	Set the default message.brand_name for every message.
beebmx.courier.challenge.theme	?string	default	Set the default theme for your challenge message.
beebmx.courier.challenge.greeting	?string	null	Set the greeting message for your challenge.
beebmx.courier.challenge.email.login.before	?string	null	Set the text before code for login message.
beebmx.courier.challenge.email.login.after	?string	null	Set the text after code for login message.
beebmx.courier.challenge.email.password-reset.before	?string	null	Set the text before code for password-reset message.
beebmx.courier.challenge.email.password-reset.after	?string	null	Set the text after code for password-reset message.
beebmx.courier.panel.label	string	Courier	Set a path where the templates and themes are located.
beebmx.courier.panel.icon	string	email	Set a path where the templates and themes are located.

Here's an example of a full use of the options from the config.php file:

'beebmx.courier' => [
    'logo' => function() {
        return site()->file('logo.png');
    },
    'path' => 'courier',
    'from' => [
        'address' => '[email protected]',
        'name' => 'Example',
    ],
    'message' => [
        'greeting' => 'Hello friend!',
        'rights' => 'Copyrights.',
        'salutation' => 'Thanks',
        'subject' => 'Message from courier',
        'notify' => 'If you’re having trouble clicking the button, copy and paste the URL below into your web browser.',
        'brand_name' => null,
    ],
    'challenge' => [
        'theme' => 'your-own-theme',
        'greeting' => 'Hello friend!',
        'email' => [
            'login' => [
                'before' => 'Recently, a login attempt was made on your account. You have X minutes to complete the login.',
                'after' => 'DO NOT share this code with anyone. If you did not request this login, you can ignore this email.',
            ],
            'password-reset' => [
                'before' => 'Recently, a login attempt was made on your account. You have X minutes to complete the login.',
                'after' => 'DO NOT share this code with anyone. If you did not request this password reset, you can ignore this email.',
            ],
        ],
    ],
    'panel' => [
        'label' => 'Courier',
        'icon' => 'email',
    ],
],

Warning

Since version 1.2.0, Courier changes the plugin prefix from beebmx.kirby-courier to beebmx.courier.

License

Licensed under the MIT.

Credits

Courier is inspired by the Laravel Notifications and Laravel Mail.

• Fernando Gutierrez @beebmx
• Jonas Ceja @jonatanjonas logo
• All Contributors