Send Email from your Gmail account Using Codeigniter.

Codeigniter provides many built in helpers and libraries which help us to perform lot of functionality for developing projects. Here a simple email library make us able to send email using our Gmail account living in CI environment.

<!--?
class Send_Email extends Controller
{
function Send_Email()

{
	parent::Controller();
}
function index()
{
  $config = Array(
  'protocol' =--> 'smtp',
  'smtp_host' =&gt; 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
  'smtp_port' =&gt; 465,
  'smtp_user' =&gt; 'email_address@gmail.com', // change it to yours
  'smtp_pass' =&gt; 'your_password', // change it to yours
  'mailtype' =&gt; 'html',
  'charset' =&gt; 'iso-8859-1',
  'wordwrap' =&gt; TRUE
);

  $this-&gt;load-&gt;library('email', $config);
  $this-&gt;email-&gt;set_newline("\r\n");
  $this-&gt;email-&gt;from('your_email@domain.com'); // change it to yours
  $this-&gt;email-&gt;to('your_email@domain.com'); // change it to yours
  $this-&gt;email-&gt;subject('Email using Gmail.');
  $this-&gt;email-&gt;message('Working fine ! !');

  if($this-&gt;email-&gt;send())
 {
  echo 'Email sent.';
 }
 else
{
 show_error($this-&gt;email-&gt;print_debugger());
}
}
}?&gt;

<!--?

class Send_Email extends Controller

{

function Send_Email()

{

parent::Controller();

}

function index()

{

$config = Array(

'protocol' =--> 'smtp',

'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',

'smtp_port' => 465,

'smtp_user' => 'email_address@gmail.com', // change it to yours

'smtp_pass' => 'your_password', // change it to yours

'mailtype' => 'html',

'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',

'wordwrap' => TRUE

);

$this->load->library('email', $config);

$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

$this->email->from('your_email@domain.com'); // change it to yours

$this->email->to('your_email@domain.com'); // change it to yours

$this->email->subject('Email using Gmail.');

$this->email->message('Working fine ! !');

if($this->email->send())

{

echo 'Email sent.';

}

else

{

show_error($this->email->print_debugger());

}

}?>

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