how to make adminEmail dynamically in yii framework

Question

currently the adminEmail is set in the params.php file. I am trying to change the 'adminEmail' dynamically and then I can assign the email value I want. There is the code in the params.php.

return array(
    // this is displayed in the header section
    'title' => 'title here',
    // this is admin email
    'adminEmail' => 'admin@email.com',

But the admin emails can be more than one(eg. admin1@email.com, admin2@email.com), how can I set admin email dynamically in params.php ?

Thanks in advance!

A l w a y s S u n n y · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17T07:59:00.920

You can try set multiple emails on adminEmail, and at runtime access it using index. E.G

//asign multiple email ids to adminEmail as array
'params'=>array(
    // this is used in contact page
    'adminEmail'=>array('webmaster@example.com','sany@gmail.com','xxx@yahoo.com','webmaster2@example.com')
),

//access it using array index at runtime as your requirement
<?php echo Yii::app()->params['adminEmail'][1];?>  //sany@gmail.com
<?php echo Yii::app()->params['adminEmail'][2];?>  // xxx@yahoo.com

OR

Create a static method on a class that will generate dynamic email ids and then set it to your adminEmail param .e.g

class Email
      {
    public static function generateEmailIds()
    {
      //or any other way to generate email ids or id
              return array('webmaster@example.com',
              'sany@gmail.com',
              'xxx@yahoo.com');
    }
}
'params'=>array(
    // this is used in contact page
    'adminEmail'=>Email::generateEmailIds(),
)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

Well, although I don't recommend this approach, what you want to do can be done like this:

You need to store your array in a file in serialized form (that is, call function serialize() on it. That will turn the array into a string.
You can read the file and unserialize it (that is, call function unserialize() on it. That will turn the string that you read form file back into a PHP array.)
```
$handle = fopen('path/to/file','rb');
$contents = fread($handle,999).
$array = unserialize($contents);
```

set 'adminEmail' to what you want it to be:

$array['adminEmail'] = 'new@email.com;

or even

$array['adminEmail']= array(..lots of emails..);

then you need to turn the array into a string and write the array back to file. Like this, for example:
```
$serialized_contents = serialize($array);
fwrite($handle, $serialized_contents);
```

There may be more efficient ways to do this if you want to.

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