Email Class

The Email class makes sending email simple and easy. It uses PHP’s built-in mail() function under the hood.

If you are planning to use more advanced features (SMTP, authentication, HTML templates, etc.), you may integrate third-party libraries such as PHPMailer instead.

Basic Usage

Here is a basic example demonstrating how you might send email. Note: This example assumes you are sending the email from one of your controllers.

<?php
$this->call->library('email');

$this->email->sender('your@example.com', 'Your Name');
$this->email->recipient('someone@example.com');

$this->email->subject('Email Test');
$this->email->email_content('Testing the email class.');

$this->email->send();

Available Methods

Method	Description
`sender($sender_email, $sender_name)`	$sender_email (required) — Email address of the sender $sender_name (optional) — Name of the sender
`reply_to($sender_email)`	$sender_email — Email address where replies should go
`recipient($receiver_email)`	$receiver_email (required) — Email address of the recipient
`subject($subject)`	$subject (required) — The subject that will appear in the email
`email_content($content, $email_type = 'plain')`	$content (required) — Content of the email $email_type (optional) — Defaults to `plain`. Use `html` for HTML content
`attachment($path)`	$path (required) — Path where your attachment file is located
`send()`	Sends the composed email. Must be called last to actually send the email.

Note

You must call $this->email->send() at the end to actually send the email. All other methods just prepare the email before sending.