Simple way to send email in codeigniter using SMTP

Here I'm going to tell you about how to send contact emails in codeigniter using SMTP Settings. this is one of the simple way to integrate in Codeignter. We already discussed a bit about Codeigniter in previous tutorials. It has some library file to make this action. like that here also we have email library file. Lets see the code and steps below.

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BASIC SETTING

application->config->autoload.php file

$autoload['libraries'] = array('database', 'email', 'session', 'upload');

DATABASE
Database Name : 2my4edge
TABLE NAME
1.code_email

CREATE TABLE `code_email` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `name` varchar(250) NOT NULL,
  `email` varchar(250) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

VIEW FILES

1.emailform.php

<div align="center" class="container">
<?php if($this->session->flashdata('flash_job')){?>
      <div class="alert alert-success">      
        <?php echo $this->session->flashdata('flash_job')?>
      </div>
    <?php } ?>
<form method="POST" action="<?php echo site_url('sendmail/sendmail');?>">
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" required id="name" placeholder="Name"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email ID</td>
<td><input type="email" name="emailid" required id="email" placeholder="Your Email id"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><input style="width: 50%;" type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>

CONTROLLER FILES
1.Sendmail.php

<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Sendmail extends CI_Controller {

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->load->helper('url');                  /***** LOADING HELPER TO AVOID PHP ERROR ****/
        $this->load->model('Sendmail_model','send'); /* LOADING MODEL * Welcome_model as welcome */
    }

    public function index()
    {
        $this->load->view('emailform');
    }



    public function sendmail()
    {

    $input_data=array('name'=>$this->input->post('name'),
                      'email'=>$this->input->post('emailid')
                     );
    $this->send->save_contact_data($input_data);

    $from_email="arun@2my4edge.com";
    $replyemail = "arunkumarpsp1@gmail.com";
    $name="Arunkumar 2my4edge";
    $to_email=$input_data['email'];
    $subject="New Registration from 2my4edge.com";
    $config = Array(
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => 'youremail@gmail.com',
    'smtp_pass' => 'xxxyourpasswordxxx',
    'mailtype' => 'text/html',
    'newline' => '\r\n',
    'charset' => 'utf-8'
    );
    $this->load->library('email', $config);
    $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
    $this->email->set_mailtype("html");
    $this->email->from($from_email,$name);
    $this->email->to($to_email);
    $this->email->reply_to($replyemail);
    $this->email->subject($subject);
    $message='<table  style="background:white;width:100%;text-align:center;max-width:800px;min-width:450px;">
    <tbody>
    <tr>
    <td style="padding:10px 0px;">
    <a href="http://www.2my4edge.com">
    <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvOdIiG12ffCJuB4q3pygAo8JIVmr_4serpR20MRj6PzghHHaIqPdxhbWyLOlvntAvLoz_rQBUzXKQCUeMqN9V6S2jpw8ty6uVpsbJe2iechFfbT2reo9nbu5NaXlJCxJUcOk_IwrdYFx/s1600/new2.png">
    </a>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
    </table>
    <table style="background:#F1F1F1;width:100%;padding: 12px; text-align: justify; 
                line-height: 25px;font-family:roboto;max-width:800px;min-width:450px;">
    <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <p style="color:#68461d;font-size:28px;">
          <i></i><br>
            <small style="color:666666!important;font-size: medium; font-style: normal;">
            Dear <b>'.$input_data['name'].',</b> <br>
            you have tested email from <a href="http://www.2my4edge.com">www.2my4edge.com</a>. <br>
            Your Email Id is <b>'.$input_data['email'].'</b>.</small>
        </p>
       
      </td>
     </tr>
    </tbody>
    </table>';
    $this->email->message($message);
    $this->email->send();

    $this->session->set_flashdata("flash_job",'Thank you for your submission. We will get back to you shorty.');
    redirect('sendmail');
  }



}

Change STML EMAIL and PASSWORD. Give your valid email id and password.

MODEL FILES
1.Sendmail_model.php

<?php
class Sendmail_model extends CI_Model
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }


    public function save_contact_data($inputdata)
    {
      $this->db->insert('code_email', $inputdata); 
    }

}

If you want to save the data in database use this model, else remove the model. and also from controller.

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