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Codeigniter + PHPMailer

How to integrate PHPMailer with Codeigniter 3

This code was originally written by Stack Overflow - stevebaros

Versions

Application used for creating the system.

	Developer	Version
CodeIgniter	EllisLab	3.2.0
PhpMailer	PHPMailer	6.1.3
PHP	PHP	5.6

Steps

Steps:

1. Download the latest PhpMailer File on this link https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
2. Extract the file and copy to application/third_party/ folder and make the folder name to “phpmailer”
3. The next steps will be creating of php files..

Create files and folders

application/libraries/Phpmailer_lib.php

   <?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
    
    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
    
    class PHPMailer_Lib
    {
    	public function __construct(){
    	    log_message('Debug', 'PHPMailer class is loaded.');
    	}
    
    	public function load(){
    	    // Include PHPMailer library files
    	    require_once APPPATH.'third_party/phpmailer/src/Exception.php';
    	    require_once APPPATH.'third_party/phpmailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
    	    require_once APPPATH.'third_party/phpmailer/src/SMTP.php';
    
    	    $mail = new PHPMailer(true);
    	    return $mail;
    	}
    }

application/controller/Email.php

   <?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
        
    class Email extends CI_Controller{
    
        function  __construct(){
            parent::__construct();
        }
    
        function send(){
            // Load PHPMailer library
            $this->load->library('phpmailer_lib');
    
            // PHPMailer object
            $mail = $this->phpmailer_lib->load();
    
            // SMTP configuration
            $mail->isSMTP();
            $mail->Host     = 'smtp.example.com';
            $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
            $mail->Username = '[email protected]';
            $mail->Password = '********';
            $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
            $mail->Port     = 465;
    
            $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'CodexWorld');
            $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'CodexWorld');
    
            // Add a recipient
            $mail->addAddress('[email protected]');
    
            // Add cc or bcc 
            $mail->addCC('[email protected]');
            $mail->addBCC('[email protected]');
    
            // Email subject
            $mail->Subject = 'Send Email via SMTP using PHPMailer in CodeIgniter';
    
            // Set email format to HTML
            $mail->isHTML(true);
    
            // Email body content
            $mailContent = "<h1>Send HTML Email using SMTP in CodeIgniter</h1>
                <p>This is a test email sending using SMTP mail server with PHPMailer.</p>";
            $mail->Body = $mailContent;
    
            // Send email
            if(!$mail->send()){
                echo 'Message could not be sent.';
                echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
            }else{
                echo 'Message has been sent';
            }
        }
    
    }

Note

Ports, Host and SMTPSecure might not work on the production and test server. Please refer on the table below.

SMTP	Port #	Description
tls	587	You can use it on Test and Live Server
ssl	465	You can use it on Test Server Only
-	993	This port is set as default. You can use it on Live Server Only

:) Thanks!