How to send Gmail email with CodeIgniter

Question

I would like to send email via my gmail address using CodeIgniter. I tried many solutions, but none of them work.

My code :

  $config = array(
        'protocol' => 'smtp',
        'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
        'smtp_port' => 465,
        'smtp_user' => 'xxxxx@gmail.com',
        'smtp_pass' => 'yyyyy',
        'mailtype' => 'html',
        'charset' => 'utf-8',
        'wordwrap' => TRUE
    );


    $this->load->library('email', $config);

    $this->email->from('xxxxx@gmail.com', 'admin');
    $this->email->to('zzzzz@gmail.com');
    $this->email->subject('Email test');
    $msg = "Testing email.";

    $this->email->message($msg);

    $this->email->send();

    echo $this->email->print_debugger();

I have the following error :

Message: fwrite(): send of 5 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe
Filename: libraries/Email.php

and

 Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.

For the moment, I'am working in localhost.

Thank you for helping me.

I think you didn't allow use of SMTP in your gmail account. You need to check in your google SMTP settings. — kishor10d, Jun 12 '17 at 09:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '17 at 19:27

In CodeIgniter, you can configure the email data by creating a email.php file. I am using this for a long time. so it could work for you as well.

Inside the file:

$config = Array(
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => 'yourGmailId@gmail.com', // change it to yours
    'smtp_pass' => 'your password', // change it to yours
    'mailtype' => 'html',
    'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',
    'wordwrap' => TRUE,
    'from' => 'your_from_email@bla.com',
    'subject' => 'test email'
);

Now in the controller, you can do this:

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

    $subject = $this->config->item('subject');
    $from = $this->config->item('from');

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

    $this->email->from($from, 'Yards & Acares');
    $data = array(
        'some_data' => $email            
    );

    $this->email->to($email);  // replace it with receiver mail id
    $this->email->subject($subject); // replace it with relevant subject 

    // Here is I have added an email template.
    $body = $this->load->view('admin/propMailer.php', $data, TRUE);

    $this->email->message($body);

    if ($this->email->send()) {
       //Do whatever you want if success
    } else {
       //Do whatever you want if failed 
        log_message('error', 'Unable to Send Email to Customer.' . print_r($this->email->print_debugger(array('headers', 'subject')), TRUE));

   }

Alex Mac · Answer 2 · 2017-06-12T09:28:25.630

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Please use below mentioned solution

$config = Array(
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => 'xxx',
    'smtp_pass' => 'xxx',
    'mailtype'  => 'html', 
    'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'
);
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

// Set to, from, message, etc.

$result = $this->email->send();

Also in php.ini please enable openssl

// Find the line.
;extension=php_openssl.dll

// Remove  ";" from this line to enable
extension=php_openssl.dll

edited Jun 12 '17 at 09:28

answered Jun 12 '17 at 09:26

Alex Mac

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Should the 'smtp_user' address and the 'from' address should be the same ? – iAmoric Jun 12 '17 at 09:28
Somehow yes. Please find this here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1332510/how-to-change-from-address-when-using-gmail-smtp-server – Alex Mac Jun 12 '17 at 09:30
I can't find the line 'extension=php_openssl.dll' in the php.ini file – iAmoric Jun 12 '17 at 09:31
Okay. Then please download openssl extension for php and include this in `ext` directory and add `extension=php_openssl.dll` at the end if `php.ini` file – Alex Mac Jun 12 '17 at 09:33
how to download it ? – iAmoric Jun 12 '17 at 09:34
You can do googling, but one I found here. http://www.dlldll.com/php_openssl.dll_download.html – Alex Mac Jun 12 '17 at 09:37
Ok, I have it. Where do I put it ? – iAmoric Jun 12 '17 at 09:45
`C:\xampp\php\ext` -> `use this folder to move your new extension` -> `add line extension=php_openssl.dll at the end if php.ini` -> `restart apache/xampp/wamp server and check` – Alex Mac Jun 12 '17 at 09:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 06:32

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For sending Gmail email on localhost, you can take a look at my answer here

Do this on local development for testing codeigniter email functions.

answered Jun 13 '17 at 06:32

Keith Asilom

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what local web server are you using in your linux machine? maybe you should configure SMTP in your linux server – Keith Asilom Jun 13 '17 at 07:16

How to send Gmail email with CodeIgniter

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