Mailer with parameters

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I could really use a hand here because I’m going a little crazy. I am able to do the following with no problem:




Yii::$app->mailer->compose('myHtmlTemplate')

    ->setTo($this->toAddress)

    ->setFrom([$this->fromDefaultAddress => $this->fromDefaultName])

    ->setSubject($this->subject)

    ->setTextBody($this->body)

    ->send();

This works fine, email sends perfectly with my view and layout. However, I cannot get it to work when I add parameters like this:




Yii::$app->mailer->compose('myHtmlTemplate', ['myTestVar' => 'Hello, World'])

    ->setTo($this->toAddress)

    ->setFrom([$this->fromDefaultAddress => $this->fromDefaultName])

    ->setSubject($this->subject)

    ->setTextBody($this->body)

    ->send();

and in my myHtmlTemplate view I add:




<?= $myTestVar ?>

The email does not send after I add this variable to the view. I continue to get a “Undefined variable: myTestVar” error. Can anybody suggest what I may doing wrong? The documentation never shows how I should be attempting to code the myTestVar variable in a template, but StackOverflow and other sites seem to suggest exactly what I’m doing.

Again, this works until I attempt to pass a variable to my HTML template view. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

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Update: It looks like this isn’t an issue in the most common use case. I was calling compose() from a custom module, and for some reason that meant I couldn’t pass along parameters. When I moved the compose() calls into a regular controller, I could pass parameters as expected. Not sure why this would be, but I found a workaround anyway.