Sending HTML e-mails with CodeIgniter Email

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.

How to do it...

HTML e-mails can be sent by executing the following steps:

  1. Create a file email.php at /path/to/codeigniter/application/controllers/.
  2. 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 ...

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