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            $config = Array(
            'protocol' => 'smtp',
            'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
            'smtp_port' => 465,
            'smtp_user' => 'xxx',
            'smtp_pass' => 'xxx',
            'mailtype'  => 'html', 
            'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'
        );
        $this->load->library('email', $config);
        $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

        $this->email->from('[e-mail]','me');
        $this->email->to($this->input->post('email'));
        $this->email->subject("Confirm your account.");
        
        $message = '<p>Thank you for signing up!</p>';
        $message .= '<p><a href="';
        $message .= base_url();
        $message .= 'main/register_user';
        $message .= $key;
        $message .= '">Click here!</a>to sign up</p>';
        $this->email->message($message);

I’m following some Codeigniter tutorials from phpacademy on youtube. One of the tutorials has you email a unique key to a user so they can register. I’m attempting to send via a gmail account, using other questions and CI forums I’ve gotten to the code above, but I get the following errors:

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

—

Message: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given

Filename: libraries/Email.php

—

Message: fgets() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given

Filename: libraries/Email.php

I’m lost as to the exact steps I need to take to set this up properly. Also, when I move this from local to an actual webhost will it still properly work with my gmail?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Make sure that you have mod_ssl active on apache server