Im trying to send an email when certain button is pressed. It works when I change app = Flask(name) directly instead of app = create_app() in the app.py
app.py
from website import create_app
from flask import Flask, request, render_template
from flask_mail import Mail, Message
# import schedule
# import time
app = create_app()
mail = Mail(app)
def send_email_notification(email, body):
msg = Message('Scheduled Notification', sender='[email protected]', recipients=['myemail']) #I use my real email btw, I just remove it for privacy
msg.body = body
mail.send(msg)
@app.route("/", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def index():
if request.method == 'POST':
email = request.form.get('email')
body = request.form.get('note')
send_email_notification(email=email, body=body)
return "Email sent successfully"
return render_template('home.html')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)
init.py
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from os import path
from flask_login import LoginManager
from flask_mail import Mail, Message
mail = Mail()
db = SQLAlchemy()
DB_NAME = "database.db"
def create_app():
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'hjshjhdjah kjshkjdhjs'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = f'sqlite:///{DB_NAME}'
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = 'smtp.gmail.com'
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587
app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = '' # Replace with your Gmail email
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = '' # Replace with your Gmail password
app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS'] = True
app.config['MAIL_USE_SSL'] = False
db.init_app(app)
from .views import views
from .auth import auth
app.register_blueprint(views, url_prefix='/')
app.register_blueprint(auth, url_prefix='/')
from .models import User, Note
with app.app_context():
db.create_all()
login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.login_view = 'auth.login'
login_manager.init_app(app)
@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(id):
return User.query.get(int(id))
return app
def create_database(app):
if not path.exists('website/' + DB_NAME):
db.create_all(app=app)
print('Created Database!')
So I want to know how to send the email with create_app()
I have tried a lot of things. Like doing it directly on app.py, but it's a mess. Im beginner, so please a beginner-friendly explanation please