Question

When using the standard Codeigniter

mail->send()

it only returns TRUE or FALSE. However, I have requirements to handle certain SMTP return codes differently. I could parse out of the debug text info, or somehow try to override the mail handler for Codeigniter. Is there any straight forward and elegant way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I dont think there is a build in mechanism for this in CodeIgniter. What you could do is extend the CI email class and add a function to expose the protected _debug_msg array.

If you look at the source of email class you will see that print_debugger() function is converting _debug_msg array into string. So if _debug_msg has what you are looking for then you wouldn’t have to parse any string.

class MY_Email extends CI_Email {

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public get_msg()
    {
        if (count($this->_debug_msg) > 0)
        {
            return $this->_debug_msg;
        }
        else
        {
            return FALSE;
        }
    }
}

Refer the following link on how to extend CI libs
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/creating_libraries.html