CakePHP 4: Sending email from CLI can not create full URL Link

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Dear all,

I am sending emails from the same template and template variables, one of that is entity ID for creating View link.

  • If using direct email sending from web app controller, the link has full URL.
  • If using MailQueue which sends email via CLI command, the link does not have full URL, only controller, action, and parameter (entity ID).

Is it supposed to work that way?

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When running in the web app context, there are $_SERVER variables that Cake accesses to understand what domain you are on. When running from the CLI, these don’t exist. This is what the App.fullBaseUrl setting is for.

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Thank you a lot, Zuluru

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Note that App.fullBaseUrl can also be useful in web context, if you have multiple domains that your app runs under, but you want all emails that go out to reference a “primary” one regardless of which one the user is on when the email is triggered.