CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 3. Sending Emails

Ok these are probably the bests tutorials I’ve ever seen. Thank you very much from Argentina, Im starting a project using CI and this was my salvation :)

Keep it up!

Thanks man! I’m learning a lot from you!

in CI 2.0.1 you must delete __construct() function from controllers/email.php to send email :)

Nice tutorial :) . Thanks

AI, I had the same error. I tried removing the $config variable from that line but still had an error so instead I went into library > email.php and added the host, user and pass and port variables there and it now works.
But certainly you need to remove the $config from that line.

Hey jeff it’s a good tutorial , but i am facing a problem while sending emails .I am getting a error

Message: 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?)

I know there might be some problem with my smtp settings becuase i am on localhost..is there any way to fix that ….

Please help me out

Could someone give a brief explanation about the un-required $config, which causes an issue when included but which works when excluded.

thanks – I’m sure more than I will benefit….

good one

Great Job! these tutorials are great. Love em!

I have a theory on why set_newline is required, not sure if it’s right.

in the various major OSes (i.e. Win, OSX, GNU/Linux) you have slightly different newline return characters. In OSX and GNU/Linux you need both /r and /n to get a newline (/r being carrage return old fashion like, and /n creates the actual new line) in Windows however one only needs /n since it auto includes the /r.

WHY it’s required is because the headers need it to space itself. Not sure if the theory is right, I don’t normally work with E-mails (yet, but this tut did help make me realise that I can easily)

Just a thought.

Please help I cannot get this working, the page gets stuck loading.

I am using version 2.0.3

Here is my code for the email.php config file:

Here is my code for the email.php controller:

load->library(‘email’);
$this->email->set_newline(‘\r\n’);

$this->email->from(‘your@gmail.com’, ‘from name’);
$this->email->to(‘t.peet1988@gmail.com’);
$this->email->subject(‘email van CI’);
$this->email->message(‘look this is working’);

if($this->email->send()) {
echo ‘Your email was sent, fool’;
}
else {
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
}
}
?>

Thanks

Pleas continued the great job to teach us the great tool that is codeIgniter !!!

Thks a LOT!!!! Man THKS! THKS!

Awesome tutorial, thanx!

I know it’s a wee bit outdated, but this will help everyone using both older and newer versions of CI.

Here’s a tip to eliminate having to do the foreach loop check every time you call data from a db:

Add this function to the system Model page:
Location: ./system/core/Model.php

function db_data($q)
{
if($q->num_rows()>0) {
foreach($q->result() as $r) {
$data[] = $r;
}
return $data;
}
}

Then, whenever you do a db callback, merely do this:

function getIndexData()
{
return db_data($this->db->get(‘test’));
}

function getSomeOtherData()
{
return db_data($this->db->get(‘test’));
}

The function db_data will be globally available for ALL projects, because it’s in the system Model file.
(I just started learning CI yesterday, so someone else might have a better implementation method for the db_data function)

Here’s another nifty hack to convert all the stdClass objects to clean arrays:

Again I’m implementing this in the Model.php page
Location: ./system/core/Model.php

By default, the class will provide you with an object array like this:

Array (
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[detailID] => 1
[rentalDetailsID] => 1
[detailType] => Bedrooms
[detailValue] => 2
[detailDescription] =>
)
)

To clean this up to a standard array, add this to the Model page:

function obar($object)
{
foreach($object as $k => $v) {
if(is_object($v))
$arr[$k] = obar($v);
else
$arr[$k] = $v;
}
return $arr;
}

and call it with:

$arr = obar($this->your_model->yourModelFunction());

This will now output:

Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[detailID] => 1
[rentalDetailsID] => 1
[detailType] => Bedrooms
[detailValue] => 2
[detailDescription] =>
)
)

I was going over some of the documentation and CI forums, and discovered that in 2.0.x, you don’t need the construct function for this.. If you DO add it, just parent it to itself:

function construct()
{
parent::__cnstruct();
}

I keep forgetting these tuts are for an older version of CI.. The functionality is there, but the methods have changed slightly.