CodeIgniter Email helper

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Email helper contains functions that help us for working with Emails.

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Loading this Helper:

Use the given line in your controller or model file to load the Email helper.

$this->load->helper('email');

The following functions are available in this helper:

1 valid_email(): This function is used in the format of Email addresses. It returns True if the input is a correctly formatted e-mail address.

Syntax:

valid_email($email);

Parameter Description:

$email (string) – E-mail address

The return type of this function is bool and it returns TRUE if a valid email is supplied, FALSE otherwise.

Example:

Step 1 Open the application/controllers directory and create a new controller file Valid_mail.php

<?php
   class Valid_mail extends CI_Controller {

      public function index() {
		 $this->load->helper('email'); //load Email helper
		 if (valid_email('email@somesite.com'))
		{
				echo 'email is valid';
		}
		else
		{
				echo 'email is not valid';
		}
      }
    }
?>

Step 2 Open the given URL into the browser to see the result.

http://localhost/ci/index.php/valid_mail

2 send_email(): This function is used to send email by using PHP’s native mail() function.

Syntax:

send_email($recipient, $subject, $message);

Parameter Description:

$recipient (string) – E-mail address
$subject (string) – Mail subject
$message (string) – Message body

The return type of this function is bool and it returns TRUE if the mail was successfully sent, FALSE in case of an error.

Example:

Step 1 Open application/controllers directory and create a new controller file Send_mail.php

<?php
   class Send_mail extends CI_Controller {

      public function index() {
		 $this->load->helper('email'); //load Email helper
		 $msg = "This is a test mail";
		// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
		$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
		$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
		// More headers
		$headers .= 'From: heading <sender@somesite.com>' . "\r\n";

	$send=send_email("receiver@somesite.com","Subject",$msg,$headers);
		 if($send){
			 echo "successfully sent";
		 }else{
			 echo "try again";
		 }
      }
   }
?>