Question

I have some problems, meaning that I don’t receive mail from a form…

the code looks like this:

public function send_email(){
        $this->load->library("form_validation");


        $this->form_validation->set_rules("fullName", "Full Name", "required|alpha|xss_clean");
        $this->form_validation->set_rules("email", "Email Address", "required|valid_email|xss_clean");
        $this->form_validation->set_rules("message", "Message", "required|xss_clean");

            if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE){
                $data["message"] = "";
                $this->load->view("site_header");
                $this->load->view("site_nav");
                $this->load->view("content_comment", $data);
                $this->load->view("site_footer");
            }else{
                $data["message"] = "The email was successfully been sent!";


                $this->load->library("email");


                $this->email->from(set_value("email"), set_value("fullName"));
                $this->email->to("[e-mail]");
                $this->email->subject("Message from our form");
                $this->email->message(set_value("message"));

                $this->email->send();

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


                $this->load->view("site_header");
                $this->load->view("site_nav");
                $this->load->view("content_comment", $data);
                $this->load->view("site_footer");
            }
    }

And i get an error that looks like this:

Unable to send email using PHP mail(). Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.**

Is this from my php.ini file?

i’ve set my files reading this part on http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

i found the solution: create a file in config: email.php that looks like this

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
/*
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
| EMAIL CONFING
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
| Configuration of outgoing mail server.
| */

$config['wordwrap'] = FALSE;
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['crlf'] = '\r\n';
$config['charset']='utf-8';
$config['newline']="\r\n";
$config['priority']=1;
$config['protocol']='smtp';
$config['smtp_host']='ssl://smtp.googlemail.com';
$config['smtp_port']='465';
$config['smtp_timeout']='30';
$config['smtp_user']='[e-mail]';
$config['smtp_pass']='qwaszx12';
$config['newline']="\r\n";

/* End of file email.php */
/* Location: ./system/application/config/email.php */

then load this in your main controller like: $this->email->initialize($this->config->config); and that’s it!

Answer 1

simply add this code to you helper file and call the function when you want to send mail the following method to send an email…

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

    $this->email->from($config['smtp_user'],"Your name");
    $this->email->to($to);
    $this->email->subject($subject);  
    $this->email->message($message);
    $result = $this->email->send();
    return $result;
}