How to send email in CodeIgniter using SMTP

In this example we will discuss about how to send email in CodeIgniter using SMTP PHP.

Example

public function send_mail()
{
require_once(APPPATH.'third_party/PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // we are going to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enabled SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // prefix for secure protocol to connect to the server
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // setting GMail as our SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // SMTP port to connect to GMail
$mail->Username = "mail@gmail.com"; // user email address
$mail->Password = "password"; // password in GMail
$mail->SetFrom('mail@gmail.com', 'Mail'); //Who is sending
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Mail Subject";
$mail->Body = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Heading</h3>
<p>Message Body</p><br>
<p>With Regards</p>
<p>Your Name</p>
</body>
</html>
';
$destino = receiver@gmail.com; // Who is addressed the email to
$mail->AddAddress($destino, "Receiver");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}
}