How to send welcome email with reset password link in Magento 2 programmatically

Question

I want to create a customer account in Magento 2.4 from cron. And I want to send a welcome email with a reset password link.

I have found a few articles that helped me to create a customer account. But didn't find any solution for sending a welcome email with a reset password link on a newly created customer account.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can try below code for sending reset password emails.

public function __construct(
 Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $context,
 Magento\Customer\Model\Session $customerSession,
 Magento\Customer\Api\AccountManagementInterface $customerAccountManagement,
) {
 $this->session = $customerSession;
 $this->customerAccountManagement = $customerAccountManagement;
 parent::__construct($context);
}
public function sendCustomMail()
{
 $email = 'YOURCUSTOMEREMAILADDRESS'; 
 if (!\Zend_Validate::is($email, 'EmailAddress')) {
 $this->session->setForgottenEmail($email);
 $this->messageManager->addErrorMessage(__('Please correct the email address.'));
 }
 try {
 $this->customerAccountManagement->initiatePasswordReset(
 $email,
 AccountManagement::EMAIL_RESET
 );
 } catch (NoSuchEntityException $e) {
 // Do nothing, we don't want anyone to use this action to determine which email accounts are registered.
 } catch (\Exception $exception) {
 $this->messageManager->addExceptionMessage(
 $exception,
 __('We\'re unable to send the password reset email.')
 );
 }
 $this->messageManager->addSuccessMessage($this->getSuccessMessage($email));
}

Answer 2

app/code/VendoreName/ModuleName/etc

email_templates.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Email:etc/email_templates.xsd">
 <template area="frontend" file="customersendemail.html" id="custom_reset_password" label="Customer Reset Password Custom" module="VendoreName_ModuleName" type="html"/>
</config>

app/code/VendoreName/ModuleName/view/frontend/email

customersendemail.html

<!--@subject {{trans "Account Created - Reset Your Password"}} @-->
{{template config_path="design/email/header_template"}}
<p class="greeting">{{trans "%name," name=$customer.name}}</p>
<p>{{trans "Welcome to"}}{{trans "%store_name" store_name=$store.frontend_name}}.</p>
<table class="button" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
 <td>
 <table class="inner-wrapper" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
 <tr>
 <td align="center">
 <a href="{{var this.getUrl($store,'customer/account/createPassword/',[_query:[token:$customer.rp_token],_nosid:1])}}" target="_blank">{{trans "Set a New Password"}}</a>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<p>{{trans 'Thank you for your registration. '}}</p>
{{template config_path="design/email/footer_template"}}

app/code/VendoreName/ModuleName/Cron

CronClassName.php

<?php
namespace VendoreName\ModuleName\Cron;
use Magento\Customer\Api\Data\CustomerInterface;
use Magento\Customer\Model\CustomerRegistry;
use Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager;
use Magento\Framework\Controller\ResultFactory;
use Magento\Framework\Filesystem\DirectoryList;
use Magento\Framework\Mail\Template\SenderResolverInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Reflection\DataObjectProcessor;
class CronClassName
{
 protected $resultPageFactory;
 protected $customer;
 protected $storeManager;
 protected $scopeConfig;
 protected $transportBuilder;
 protected $customerRegistry;
 protected $dataProcessor;
 protected $_customerRepository;
 protected $_mathRandom;
 protected $_accountmanagement;
 public function __construct(
 .................................................................
 \Magento\Customer\Model\CustomerFactory $customer,
 \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $storeManager,
 \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface $scopeConfig,
 \Magento\Framework\Mail\Template\TransportBuilder $transportBuilder,
 \Magento\Framework\Mail\Template\SenderResolverInterface $senderResolver,
 \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerRepositoryInterface $customerRepository,
 \Magento\Framework\Math\Random $mathRandom,
 \Magento\Customer\Model\AccountManagement $accountmanagement,
 \Magento\Framework\Reflection\DataObjectProcessor $dataProcessor,
 \Magento\Customer\Model\CustomerRegistry $customerRegistry,
 \Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory $resultPageFactory,
 .................................................................
 ) {
 .................................................................
 $this->resultPageFactory = $resultPageFactory;
 $this->storeManager = $storeManager;
 $this->customer = $customer;
 $this->transportBuilder = $transportBuilder;
 $this->scopeConfig = $scopeConfig;
 $this->dataProcessor = $dataProcessor;
 $this->_accountmanagement = $accountmanagement;
 $this->_customerRepository = $customerRepository;
 $this->_mathRandom = $mathRandom;
 $this->customerRegistry = $customerRegistry;
 $this->senderResolver = $senderResolver ?? ObjectManager::getInstance()->get(SenderResolverInterface::class);
 .................................................................
 }
 public function createCustomer($data, $websiteId, $emailTemplate)
 {
 $data = "array of customer Data";
 $emailTemplate = "custom_reset_password";
 if (isset($data['id'])) {
 $checkCustomer = $this->customer->create()->setWebsiteId($websiteId)->loadByEmail($data['id']);
 } else{
 $checkCustomer = $this->customer->create();
 }
 if (!$checkCustomer->hasData()) {
 try {
 $createCustomer = $this->customer->create();
 $createCustomer->setWebsiteId($websiteId);
 $createCustomer->setEmail($data['email']);
 $createCustomer->setFirstname($data['f_name']);
 $createCustomer->setLastname($data['l_name']);
 $createCustomer->setGroupId($data['group_id']);
 $createCustomer->save();
 /* Send Email TO Customer */
 $emailSendStatus = $this->sendEmailToCustomer($createCustomer, $emailTemplate);
 } catch (Exception $e) {
 $msg = 'Something went wrong when creating customer.';
 }
 } else {
 $msg = 'Customer Already Created.';
 }
 }
 public function getStoreId($websiteId)
 {
 return $this->storeManager->getWebsite($websiteId)->getDefaultStore()->getId();
 }
 public function sendEmailToCustomer($customer, $emailTemplate)
 {
 $storeId = $this->getStoreId($customer->getWebsiteId());
 $customerEmailData = $this->getFullCustomerObject($customer);
 $templateParams = [];
 $templateParams['customer'] = $customerEmailData;
 $templateParams['store'] = $this->storeManager->getStore($storeId);
 $sender = \Magento\Customer\Model\EmailNotification::XML_PATH_FORGOT_EMAIL_IDENTITY;
 $from = $this->senderResolver->resolve(
 $this->scopeConfig->getValue($sender, \Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORE, $storeId),
 $storeId
 );
 $customerName = $customer->getFirstname() . " " . $customer->getLastname();
 try {
 $transport = $this->transportBuilder->setTemplateIdentifier($emailTemplate)
 ->setTemplateOptions(['area' => 'frontend', 'store' => $storeId])
 ->setTemplateVars($templateParams)
 ->setFrom($from)
 ->addTo($customer->getEmail(), $customerName)
 ->getTransport();
 $transport->sendMessage();
 $this->logger->info($customer->getEmail() . ' : Email Send Successfully.');
 } catch (Exception $e) {
 $this->logger->error($customer->getEmail() . ' : Something went wrong when sending email');
 }
 }
 public function getFullCustomerObject($customer)
 {
 $mergedCustomerData = $this->customerRegistry->retrieveSecureData($customer->getId());
 $customerData = $this->dataProcessor
 ->buildOutputDataArray($customer, CustomerInterface::class);
 $mergedCustomerData->addData($customerData);
 $customerName = $customer->getFirstname() . " " . $customer->getLastname();
 $mergedCustomerData->setData('name', $customerName);
 $tokenVal = $this->getToken($customer->getEmail(), $customer->getWebsiteId());
 $mergedCustomerData->setData('rp_token', $tokenVal);
 return $mergedCustomerData;
 }
 public function getToken($email, $websiteId)
 {
 $customer = $this->_customerRepository->get($email, $websiteId);
 $newPasswordToken = $this->_mathRandom->getUniqueHash();
 $this->_accountmanagement->changeResetPasswordLinkToken($customer, $newPasswordToken);
 return $newPasswordToken;
 }
}

Here you need to call createCustomer($data, $websiteId, $emailTemplate) function where $data has customer data, $websiteId is website id and $emailTemplate is our custom email template name.