CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 3. Sending Emails

Great
But i have a error:
Call to undefined method CI_Controller::controller() in C:\wamp\www\ci\application\controllers\email.php on line 10
Here is my code:
class Email extends Ci_Controller{

function __construct()
{
parent:: controller();
}
function index()
{
$config = Array(

‘protocol’=>’smtp’,
‘smtp_host’=>’ssl://smtp.googlemail.com’,
‘smtp_port’=>465,
‘smtp_user’=>’myemail’,
‘smtp_pass’=>’mypass’

);

/*forbinder til libary */
$this->load->libary(‘email’, $config);
$this->email->set_newline(“\r\n”);

/*afsenderen*/
$this->email->from(‘nettutsTutorials@gmail.com’);
/*modtageren*/
$this->email->to(‘renefrisker@gmail.com’);
$this->email->subject(‘Det er en email test’);
$this->email->messange(‘Det virke sku’);

if($this->email->send()){
echo’Din mail bliv sent’;
}

else
{
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
}
}

I love these tutorials. Thanks so much for teaching.

This tutorial uses an older version of Code Igniter 1.7? So I made the adjustments for the CI_2.1 using the parent::__construct, but somehow I am still drawing a blank page from my URL http://localhost/shell/index.php/email/index. NO EMAIL WAS SENT FOOL….What should I do to get this to work? I can’t move onto the next tutorial and its frustrating :-/ Thanks in advance!

‘smtp’,
‘smtp_host’ => ‘ssl://smtp.googlemail.com’,
‘smtp_port’ => 465,
‘smtp_user’ => ‘user’,
‘smtp_pass’ => ‘pass’
);

$this->load->library(‘email’);

$this->email->set_newline(“\r\n”);

$this->email->from(‘rezapiri@gmail.com’, ‘Top Dog’);
$this->email->to(‘rezapiri@gmail.com’);
$this->email->subject(‘This is an email test’);
$this->email->message(‘Its working’);

if($this->email-send())
{
echo ‘Your email was sent fool.’;
}

else
{
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}

}

}

Ur videos r really very much helpful….thnks.. :)

I am seeing this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION in C:\xampp\htdocs\ci\application\controllers\email.php on line 21

Whlie my code is

‘smtp’ ,
‘smtp_host’ => ‘ssl://smtp.googlemail.com’ ,
‘smtp_port’ => ’465′ ,
‘smtp_user’ => ‘ashfaq202@gmail.com’ ,
‘smtp_pass’ => ‘*******’
);
}
$this->load->library(‘email’, $config);
$this->email->set_newline(‘\r\n’);

$this->email->from(‘ashfaq202@gmail.com’, ‘Muhammad Ashfaq’);
$this->email->to(‘ashfaq207@yahoo.com’);
$this->email->subject(‘Testing my codeIgnitor Email’);
$this->email->message(‘This is a perfect Software’);

if($this->email->send())
{
echo ‘Email has been sent successfully’;
}
else
{
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
}

Most hosting providers this will work :

$this->load->library(‘email’);

$config['protocol'] = ‘sendmail’;
$config['mailpath'] = ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail’;
$config['charset'] = ‘iso-8859-1′;
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;

$this->email->initialize($config);

Great series, thanks for producing this.

One thing I noticed though is in the newer version of codeigniter, having this line produces an error when email.php is included in the config folder:

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

It needs to be changed to just:

$this->load->library(‘email’);

Just awesome tutorials!! I am learning Codeigniter thanks to you!

:D

Hi,
I am relatively new to CI, and mostly a windows user. Somehow this tutorial is not working for me. Its one error or the other and now its driving me crazy as to what wrong I am doing. I used the exact same code (with suggested modifications for new version) just to get errors like :

“fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.googlemail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)”

“fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given”

Generally I am not very good with debugging the codes, so if any additional data is required to solve these problems, please someone let me know. I am using xampp 1.7 on windows 7 64 bit, codeigniter 2.1

Somebody please help me out.

I keep getting this error

Message: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/newci/attachments/giants.jpg) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/tmp)

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1145

so I got rid of

$config['server_root'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

From the config.php file and I changed the “email.php” file from

$path = $this->config->item(‘server_root’);
$file = $path . ‘/newci/attachments/giants.jpg’;

$this->email->attach($file);

and turned it into

$file = ‘/newci/attachments/giants.jpg’;

$this->email->attach($file);

Now I don’t get any error’s , and my e-mail arrives, but I don’t get an attachment. Could anyone shed some light on this please?

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot!!

Thanks men!

First of all I hope this will resolve all the problem with user using CI 2.0.x.

Instead of creating arrays for cofig just pass data lik $config['port']=465, I will leave all of my code, don’t worry. Next as $config['mail_type'] put html, or u might get an error.

$this->load->library(‘email’);// first we load library
$this->email->set_newline(“\r\n”);//set the new line rule
$config['charset'] = ‘utf-8′;
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['mailtype'] = ‘html’;
$config['mailtype'] = ‘text’; // instead of html this is optional i just wanted to show other the default value in emal lib
$config['protocol']=’smtp’;
$config['smtp_port']=’465′;
$config['smtp_host']=’ssl://smtp.googlemail.com’;
$config['smtp_user']=#####@gmail.com’; // u put your mail here
$config['smtp_pass']=’######’;// your pass

$this->email->initialize($config);// crucial

$this->email->from(‘#######@gmail.com ‘, ‘Marko Kovacevic’);
$this->email->to(‘######@gmail.com’);

$this->email->subject(‘Email Test’);
$this->email->message(“The stuff works”);

if($this->email->send())
{
echo “Mail sent “‘;
}
else{

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

And other part if you get error that you can’t send mai using PHP mail(), and your server in not configured you make changes in php.ini file(Win users might need to change LoadModule ssl, i think it is in httpd.conf file).

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = ssl://googlemail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 465

I hope i helped a litle ;)

thank so much, this is great tutorial!

Nice tutorial. Very useful, even now!

Just using the latest CI have spotted the $config is an undefined variable in the controller. Once you’ve shifted everything into the config/email.php file. So if anyones reading, any advisery to remove $config from the $this->load->library(‘email’);

Also in the latest CI for a controller, you should try

Class Email extends CI_Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
}

Sorry in advance. But i was wondering for tutorials that are with code in text form, But i have got here a video tutorial. Can you please guide me from where i can get my CodeIgniter Tutorials But not in multimedia formats. Please

Nice stuff, only the Gmail example does not work. I used the SMTP server of my own internet service provider and it works OK now.

I created a email.php configuration file as described but noticed that the second parameter ($config) sould be removed from this call in the mail controller:
$this->load->library(‘email’, $config);

If not, the mail is still sent correctly but an error message is shown in the view:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: config
Filename: controllers/email.php
Line Number: 13

I did not see you remove the parameter but the error was not shown after your page reload…