There might be times when you wish to display formatted e-mails rather than just plain text, so you may wish to include images, text formatting, and URLs in the body of your e-mail. HTML e-mails will allow you to do this and CodeIgniter Email library can easily be set to do just that.
HTML e-mails can be sent by executing the following steps:
Create a file
email.php
at/path/to/codeigniter/application/controllers/
.Add the following code to the controller file
email.php
:<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); class Email extends CI_Controller { function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->load->helper('url'); $this->load->library('email'); } public function index() { redirect('email/send_email'); } public function send_email() { $config['protocol'] = 'sendmail'; $config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; ...