Codeigniter - Sending Email from your Gmail account

Codeigniter provides many built in helpers and libraries which help us to perform lot of functionality for developing projects. Here a simple email library make us able to send email using our Gmail account living in CI environment.


<?
class Send_Email extends Controller
{
function Send_Email()

{
parent::Controller();
}
function index()
{
  $config = Array(
  'protocol' => 'smtp',
  'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
  'smtp_port' => 465,
  'smtp_user' => 'email_address@gmail.com', // change it to yours
  'smtp_pass' => 'your_password', // change it to yours
  'mailtype' => 'html',
  'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',
  'wordwrap' => TRUE
);

  $this->load->library('email', $config);
  $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
  $this->email->from('your_email@domain.com'); // change it to yours
  $this->email->to('your_email@domain.com'); // change it to yours
  $this->email->subject('Email using Gmail.');
  $this->email->message('Working fine ! !');

  if($this->email->send())
 {
  echo 'Email sent.';
 }
 else
{
 show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
}
}
?>