Sending Gmail Email Using CodeIgniter

I have try some library of CI framework. One of them is Email Library. With this library we can send email easily.  This is the script.

Code

//set email library configuration
 $config = Array(
 'protocol' => 'smtp',
 'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
 'smtp_port' => 465,
 'smtp_user' => 'yourgoogleaccount@googlemail.com',
 'smtp_pass' => 'yourgooglepassowrd',
 );

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

 //set email information and content
 $this->email->from('sembiring.adi@googlemail.com', 'Your Name');
 $this->email->to('sembiring.adi@gmail.com');

 $this->email->subject(' CodeIgniter Rocks Socks ');
 $this->email->message('Hello World');

 if($this->email->send())
 {
 echo 'Your email was sent, fool.';
 }

 else
 {
 show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
 }

Error Posibility

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()

or

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?)

If those error occurred, make sure extension=php_smtp.dll and extension=php_openssl.dll uncommented in php.ini . and if you use xampp make sure you change php.ini in xampp/apache/bin/php.ini. If php.ini doesn’t exists to that directory, copy php.ini from xampp/php/php.ini to xampp/apache/bin/.

Oke …, See You !

References

1. Nettuts Screencast 3 – Sending Email