Cannot find email template when sending email via plugin

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1

I have a plugin that sends an email when a user submits a form.

When trying to send that email with an email template that is registered in the same plugin, I get an error message that “The email template “contact” cannot be found”.

Sending the email works when I define the email content via “body” or when I put the email template in /site/templates/emails/contact.html.php

The function that processes the form input and sends the email is placed after the plugin method:

<?php

Kirby::plugin('datenliebe/myplugin', [
    'templates' => [
        'emails/contact.html' => __DIR__ . '/templates/emails/contact.html.php'
    ]
]);

if (kirby()->request()->is('POST')) {
    try {
        kirby()->email([
            'template' => 'contact',
            ...
        ]);
    }
}

I have already checked this issue and the following topic but cannot figure out how to fix my implementation.

Do you see what I am missing?

2

No, but I don’t understand this part of your description:

The code you posted above as such doesn’t seem to make sense.