Shoot – there seems to be an audio/video sync issue. May have to upload a new version shortly.

Thank you very much for your tutorials. Is there any chance that you put the code, too? In the previous tutorials the code was incomplete or had some errors, it would be nice if you could check that out. Thanks in advance!

OMG!!! you can’t stop these great CI tuts!!!

I have been trying to send email with php all day and now this greate timing

FINALLY! Been waiting for this for quite some time now. Keep em coming!

Interesting enough video, but how does it relate to the previous two? We’ve seen the very basics of creating page views, but nothing on actually pulling a site together and adding content to it, and now all of a sudden we are emailing users and allowing them to upload files!

Please, some kind of logical progression would be much more useful.

jeffrey is a good teacher , i like his videos .

keep it up.

Digging these codeigniter tuts! Can’t get enough

man I love these videos. I’m taking a step back so I can fully learn php before I start using a framework but I learn so much on this site.

Email.php under Config is something new to me…that should be the way to go to manage the code better. It would certainly help if you can zoom out the code a little bit so people can see better.

I’m trying to learn CodeIgniter, and these tutorials are a huge help!

One question: When you copied the email configuration to the config/email.php file, couldn’t you have just left those lines as they were rather than individually naming each key and copying the values, etc?

Or is that just a best-practice sort of thing for config files..?

Nice job Jeff. I am loving this CI series.

Keep em coming!!!!

Just want to thank you for these videos, very good work on a very interesting framework. Keep them comming!

This series is one of the best on nettuts, thanks for this!

Now, I am waiting for more on models, as I want to have a database with two related tables modelled….

Keep up the good work!

PLEASE DON’T STOP THESE!!!!!

I hate it when some of these great tutorial series just…stop. It’d be great (like, super GREAT) if this one ran the whole distance.

You guys are doing an incredible job, here! Keep up the *incredible* work!

BTW, Jeff, thanks for listening to us. Your videos are amazing.

I agree with Mike. It would make more sense to follow a logical progression rather than jumping around to different topics. For instance, day 2 was about getting info from a database, day 3 should have been about inserting info into a database. Complete a topic before moving on. But don’t get me wrong, I love these tuts and I’m learning so much. Keep them coming!

Thanks Jeff for another useful screencast

Keep the good work and don’t even think about not continuing this series (you don’t have the feel… they ARE popular =P )…

Hi Jeff, this series is really giving me a great resource for possibly moving one of my applications to the CI framework.

I do have a suggestion however, in your tutorial you mentioned that you may or may not use the attachment. If you could, I would be interested in seeing how to handle both HTML and Plain Text versions of an email.

Thanks again. Great series!

Hi Jeff, I love ALL your tutorials. I’ve learned a lot!!!!!

No offense… BUT PLEASE!!!!!! Stop making so many noises with your mouth!!!!!!

Again.. Thanks.

Jeff the clarity of this is so cool…..
So continue with this clarity…;)

And the password of that nettutstutorials @ gmail.com

Is didnt changed, unfortunately i login into that account and see 3 mails…..
change it quickly, before others do…

Hey Jeff,

Great Job on this CI video series. I recently did a site with CI, you’ve shown me some better ways I should of done things. I don’t know If you have planned on doing this but, it would be great if you did a video about how to make a Members Area suing CI.

Keep up the great work.

You all have the best tutorials. I learn new things each time I read one.
Thanks,

Thanks for the CI series. I recently downloaded the framework and these are the perfect tuts for me to get a head-start in learning how to develop using CI.

Keep up the good work!

The requirement for the /r/n is in the RFC (not sure which one). Since you’re on a MAC, /r/n would not be sent automatically.

i just watched the video, i’ve never thought sending emails using codeigniter framework is so much fun and easy.

i’ve been struggling sending emails using plain php, even drove to drinking
and pulling out my hair. pffft!

thank you so much jeff for posting this kind of tutorials.

keep it up jeff!

I agree with the comments pertaining to logical progression. Although I can follow just fine, it would be great to walk through building a site from scratch in more of a logical manner. Something more along the lines of the Wordpress for Designers series (minus the Photoshop portion). Thanks, and keep up the great work!

Why u dont simply use base_url() instead $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ?

Jeffery I just wanted to say I love these tutorials (codeigniter tuts, diving into php tuts, jQuery for absolute beginners) I watch them all religiously and I have to say you are a great teacher!

Finally, day 3 is in!

I might get thumbs down from others, but I really think you should put the remaining videos of CI from scratch on PLUS. That way, we’ll be assured that you won’t quit the series mid-way, it would be a shame to do so.

Good job Jeff!

you are so awesome Jeffrey…I really learn a lot with your tutorials, thanks

you are proving how worth you are as nettus editor. what a choice collis and the gang made. keep up the good work jeff as i am learning a lot from you.

Yes Yes!!!! Absolutely fantastic! Love your stuff, Jeff. I have been waiting on the edge of my seat for the last four days in anticipation. Keep it up!

Loud noises! Keep em coming please!

Great! Thanks a lot!

These tuts are great, don’t stop them! Just two suggestions:
Make them a bit more advanced, I think most of us already get the grips of basic stuff with CI, and please make them iPod/iPhone compatible (just like the rest of nettuts screencast).

Hi Jeff and everybody here,

Right now Im trying to make a decision between choose Codeigniter or Zend Framework. Do you have any comment about it?

Thanks in advance,

…being LOUD per your request in the screen-cast. Please do continue the CI tuts series. Great work, thanks!

Nice work on the CI tut. I agree with one of the comments above, put the rest of the series on PLUS

“Look to check to see”

The “set_newline” method allows you to set what you want to use to make a new line in the email message, by default it’s “\n”, but to get it to comply with RFC 822 you have to use “\r\n”.

Great easy to understand tutorial. Can’t wait for day 4.

Excellent as usual.

Woooooo! Yaaaaah!! ((Bangs pots and pans together)

Keep this series going! Loving it, and makes me want to continue to come back for more!!

I have a notice from PHP
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: config
Filename: controllers/email.php
Line Number: 10 ($this->load->library(’email’, $config);)
It works the mail is sent. But i don’t find to get rid of this message.

Your tutorials are great and your accent is very easy to understand for a french speaking.

Loving this series, although very familiar to CI never hurts to check out the basics again.

Keep it up!

All his tutorial are very good.

Great and easy follow tutorial for CI-beginners.

Thanks a lot!

Great turorial, thank’s!

I am really interested to see JQuery+CI to manage cool table effects.

Keep up the good work!

Kenshin

I’ve watched all 3 tuts and learned new stuff from each of them. So thanks

From a personal point of view, I’d love to see a tut about user authentication with CI.

Like how do we authenticate a user and then set privileges for that user.

Keep em coming!

Great tutorials, don’t stop them. I am learning CI and php for that matter and this has been great!!!!!

Hi, great stuff thanks for the video. Well sending email i easy with CI but it’s always good to have a look back to the basics!

Maybe you could have talked about the $this->email->clear(TRUE); for sendinf multiples emails.

A last thing, it would be maybe a good idea to post a link to each user guide page used in the tuto, for example:

email class: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html

… and is your software used for coding is avalaible on Windows ? (i’m using eclipse but your program seems to be well done for php object dev)

ok thanks Tomos

Great screencasts, being new to frameworks this is really helping me alot in understanding it

Hi,
thank you for that tutorial, but i search a tutorial about MVC Symfony.

plz if you have a idee, can you do it?

thanks.

Jeff : You don’t need to write a constructor if all it does is call the parent, that’s bad practice. Another thing you did which didn’t make such sense was to put the document root variable into the CodeIgniter configuration file. You’re basically abstracting something which is incredibly easy to remember by default. What are you gaining from this?

It was a good tutorial, but nothing you couldn’t do if you just read the manual.

I wouldn’t mind seeing how CI could handle a basic membership site or user authorization.

Also, is it necessary to hide or take the configuration folders outside the public_html folder for security? CI security would be nice tut too!

Videos are great keep it going!

Many thank yous!

Have loved all your tuts. Thanks a ton. Just started working with CI because of these vids.

Nice work Jeff! I’m enjoying this series a lot!

I got this error, can someone please help I stuck

Message: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at “localhost” port 25, verify your “SMTP” and “smtp_port” setting in php.ini or use ini_set()

Filename: libraries/Email.php
line number: 1519

I love this kind of series tutorials! Good Work Jeff =)

Love this serie, great tutorials! I really learn alot from them, thanks alot! =D

Great tutorial jeff!!

Having some problems with Authentication, has someone changed the password or something? When I try and use my gmail account the page doesn’t load, simply gets stuck loading.

Hello Jeff,

Thanks for this tutorial! Just in time because I just needed it for a big new project.bI might have an improvement for you.

Because this new project I’m working on is queit big i have a lot of global data, such as email-address, sitename, siteUrl etc. What i did was; I created a new model within this model I defined those constants and then autoloaded this file via the autoload file.

I don’t know if this is the best way to do it but it works for me.
Let me know if this method works for you and I can’t wait for the next tutorial of CI.

Regards,
Paul du Long

Thanks for this brill CI series!!
When will this episode be available on iTunes?

Would it be possible for you to include the screencasts in the source file? I ask mainly so i can work offline while still watching them after i’ve downloaded them.

Hey Jeff,

You are making my lunches on Tuesday or Wednesday great with these CI Tutorials. Keep it up!!!

Anyway you can go into some detail about HTML emails next week?

Amazing…. I was in the decision to go native php for a site or with a framework, your guidance is just taking me to take the step i need to go with code igniter…

I will need some tutorial on database, get data, and show it. It will be cool to see that soon.

And the best of the best, a ci tuts to get data in a database and modify it and delete it… CRUD in fact

Definitely looking forward to more of these. I just watched all 3 and CI seems fun. Keep it up.

Good job Jeff! Keep these coming!

Plzz help …. i keep getting this error:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

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?)

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1646

PHPINFO SAYS OPENSSL IS ENABLED :S:S

These are great video’s please keep them coming!!

I am really enjoying these tutorials. I have been wanting to really learn CodeIgniter for a while now and just haven’t been able to wrap my head around it. This set of tutorials is really helping break it down. Great work as always!

When will new tutorial be released ? And what will be the content

This is so awesome! Please, more more!

I search all over Google to find best tips and tricks about CodeIgniter, and i think this is one of them. But you know i need more and more about CodeIgniter.

Anyone can tell me how to parse JSon with CI?

Hi you make great job . Thanks

I’ll CI , specially in your tutorials . keep up the good work . can i share the sample application I have been write for you may be help for other tutorial .
sorry about misspell or grammar .

I’m falling in love with codeigniter!
thank you so much for these tutorials.
It really takes the pain out of coding php.

I have just begin to learn some php frames,when I begin to find some tutoriols
I found it.Then I discide to learn CI .I think that php should be easy,fast and safe,why must we talk so much of OOP,just go itslef way ,why have to learn about java or ruby on rail.
last thing ,why “beginhtml” does not work in my e ,I see you can do it,and save a lot of time.thinks

Will there be a tut in this series on the CI form validation class? That’s one aspect of CI that I’m interested in.

Thanks jeff! Really great series, keep ‘em comming!

I’d like to see advanced forms, like nested forms, and how you mangage many-to-many relationships, that sort of stuff that I never mangaged to do with ruby on rails.

thanks so much.
i love these tuts ))

Hi Jeff,

Just got through days 1 to 3 of the CI tutorials. I’m excited that you’re taking the time to cover this framework.

I look forward to the next tutorial, keep at it.

Thanks,

-
Chris.

Great tutorial as always J!

Just a question: is it only me getting the same email twice every time I refresh the page? I’m testing the code on a local test server (xampp).

Someone plzzz help….
I’m trying to recreate the tut using Wamp Server 2.0
I’ve enabled OpenSSL.
I still can send mail from my local codeigniter installation. I’ve tried everything from having the config settings in the controller to moving them into a email.php file

I STILL get the following error message:A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at “ssl://smtp.googlemail.com” port 465, verify your “SMTP” and “smtp_port” setting in php.ini or use ini_set()

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1519

p.s Where is “Jeff’s example on how to configure the email library to work with external email servers.”?
Also, sorry for the double post! I’m not getting any responses on my original post

I seem to have similar errors than the previous posters – when I use port 465, nothing happens (the page just loads and loads and loads…); using port 995 (which I found on some other internet resources to be the SSL port for gmail), I get

Message: fwrite() [function.fwrite]: SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:140D00CF:SSL routines:SSL_write:protocol is shutdown
Filename: libraries/Email.php
Line Number: 1789

Using port 586, I get

Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
Filename: libraries/Email.php
Line Number: 1646

I am really confused now… Jeff, would be great to help out here

Hello Jeff

Please, you must continue with the screencats’s.

I spent one week comparing and trying a couple of Frameworks. And decided to go with Codeigniter, mainly because of these fantastic screencast’s (and other good tutorials).

Don’t you dare to stop now

– magnus

Great series. Looking forward to more of them.

And one more question. I really loved the colors you use for marking PHP code. Can you somehow write the colors down or share them in other way? Would be great.

Hi, Jeff!
Not sure if you’re still reading these, but I just have to say thank you! These tutorials are some of the most clearly communicated I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch. Thank you again, sir! How’s Australia treating you?

PS: If I have a request or an idea for a tutorial for nettuts, what’s the best way to offer my suggestion?

Thanks again!

I’m enjoying this series a lot, keep them coming!

Awesome tutorial. Ive been doing emails in php for a while and Im on day 4 right now after a two day marathon of this series and I am so impressed with what Code Igniter has to offer. I can most certainly see the power this framework has to offer and I’m impressed at your teaching style, its both professional and easy to understand. Keep them coming, I would love to see more. A few things I would like to see are: Regular Expressions for creating a Blog site like Drupal parsing content to automatically create p tags and break tags in a form body text area submission, database logic for joining tables in a code igniter based site, News aggregation using xml based feeds.

Again, great tutorial and now im onto week 5. Thanks!

Hey Jeff, in this tutorial the only thing I needed to add to my /controllers/email.php file is $config = $this->config->item(’config’); otherwise I got an error Message: Undefined variable: config

The rest worked perfectly. Thank you again for this good video. Good Job Jeff.

Wonderful screencasts. Keep ‘em coming. I’m even considering a net.tuts+ account.

Don’t konw if this can help but, anyway…

If you test all these thing on HostMonster, you should use ’sendmail’ instead of ’smtp’ in protocol, ‘cos smtp isn’t support on HM (this drives me crazy for about an hour )

Thanks Jeffrey, you did a great job!!

Same problem of Paul

Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.google.com:465

I’ve already enabled php_openssl.dll

If you stop These wonderfull tutorials, I will come there and kill you. (just kidding)

But seriously though, Please go all the way.

I am forever grateful to your hard work and for sharing.

You will be referenced in all my future works.

Wasn’t able to get this one working, hope day 4 is better.

Mac OS X 10.4.11
MAMP (Apache 2.0.59, PHP 5.2.6)
openssl extension installed & enabled
sendmail working with normal PHP

Tried ports 465, 586, 995. I get the same errors as Thomas Keller above.

At least I’m learning some CI, so thanks.

Hi. I learn English language, proffesional coding style and CI in one tutorial Dont stop it plz , just Music Thanks.

Holy Schniekes!

This tutorial is insane great! It truly saved my arse! Thank you so much Jeffrey! I’m so excited about Codeigniter since I’m fairly new to PHP (i’ve only been coding with it for about a year and I was already getting sick of spaghetti code.) It is only until recently that I have been learning about the wonders of frameworks and I love the simplicity of this one but even more, I love its documentation!

Awesome tutorials dude

okay, to everyone who is having issues sending the email (like those ssl errors, or that it keeps loading on port 465) i have found the answer!

i am pretty sure, in your code, you have this

$this->email->set_newline(’\r\n’);

‘ (single quote) should be ” (double quote, AKA magic quotes) and then it will work, strange, and sad, but true.

so change it to

$this->email->set_newline(”\r\n”);

instead
$this->email->set_newline(”\r\n”)
you can use
$config['newline'] = “\r\n” (only in double quotes)
in your email.php config file

and thanks for screencasts!

This is great and easer than cAkE

Great work Jeff! Keep on doing this!

I loving the tutorials the most! Awesome job! Just purchased a Net-Tuts+

However, I keep getting these nasty errors

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.googlemail.com:25
Filename: libraries/Email.php
Line Number: 1646

First I realized that for some reason when I run it from my localhost via MAMP no email is ever sent even it gives the confirmation email… I’m about to update my MAMP version.

So then I uploaded a copy to my server and still got all the errors. I tried all of the suggestions above and the only solution that makes them go away and allow an email to be sent is remove the $config variable from this line:

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

so it looks like this

$this->load->library(’email’);

and of course in which case I need to keep the config settings in that file… any thoughts or insights and this is very peculiar?

Hey Jeff, I just wanted to let you know first of all how awesome this framework is. I’ve never worked with one before, and so far it’s absolutely amazing. Second, your videos have been immensely helpful, please keep them up!

Hello Jeff,

Firstly, I want to thank you!! You are doing a great Job!! Keep it Up!!

I wonder if you could deal with the creation of library, helpers, and the way we could integrate a live file uploading progress bar into codeigniter?

For example a screencast about the integration of uberupload or fancyupload…

It will be very nice!!

Yes I totally agree the nettuts is one of the best. They are being unselfish and shares a lot of things.

Be sure that your server firewall doesn’t block those ports or you will get nothing but errors. That’s what you get for using cheap hosting.

ERROR: My browser hangs on the send() function when trying to send email to a gmail account. Here’s my code:

$config = Array(
‘protocol’ => ’smtp’,
’smtp_host’ => ’ssl://smtp.googlemail.com’,
’smtp_port’ => 465,
’smtp_user’ => ‘accountname@gmail.com’,
’smtp_pass’ => ‘accountpass’
);

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

$this->email->from(’accountname@gmail.com’, ‘Bart Schroder’);
$this->email->to(’accountname@gmail.com’);
$this->email->subject(’This is an email test’);
$this->email->message(’It works’);

if($this->email->send())
{
echo ‘Your email was sent. Great job!’;
}
else
{
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}

Can you help?

Wooow…Thanx very much, great tutorials, keep on going!
Really apreciate what u’re doing…

Thx again

Great tutorial! Thanks.

Thanks man… great tutorials, i really like your way! Do you use Texter or something like that @ Mac?

Thank you.

wont work for php 5.3

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\ci_day3\system\codeigniter\Common.php on line 130

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\ci_day3\system\codeigniter\Common.php on line 136

source file needs to be updated