Sending a message programatically

This bundle comes with a set of forms that already should make it easy for your users to start sending messages to one another. Sometimes however you want to be able to send a message from your code without any form being involved.

• A welcome message
• A message thread for a team that was just created
• A service notification message

Composing a message

The service container contains a service to compose messages and one to send them. This is probably all you will need in many cases.

To compose a message we retrieve the composer service and compose our message:

$sender = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser();
$threadBuilder = $this->get('fos_message.composer')->newThread();
$threadBuilder
    ->addRecipient($recipient) // Retrieved from your backend, your user manager or ...
    ->setSender($sender)
    ->setSubject('Stof commented on your pull request #456789')
    ->setBody('You have a typo, : mondo instead of mongo. Also for coding standards ...');

Sending a message

Now all you have to do to send your message is get the sender and tell it to send

$sender = $this->get('fos_message.sender');
$sender->send($threadBuilder->getMessage());

That's it, your message should now have been sent