Date Posted:24-05-2017

In this post we will explain how to send email using HTML templates in Codeigniter

How to send email using HTML templates in Codeigniter

Step 1: Create HTML file with suits to your template.

Path : /application/views/emails/test-email.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Codeigniter mail templates</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
</head>
<body>
    <p style="Margin-top: 0;color: #565656;font-family: Georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 25px;Margin-bottom: 25px">Hey
        <?php echo $userName;?>,</p>
    <p style="Margin-top: 0;color: #565656;font-family: Georgia,serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 25px;Margin-bottom: 25px"> This is mail demo of How to send email using HTML templates in Codeigniter </p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

 

Step 2: Create new Controller name as sendmails.php,Add method to sendmails.php

Path : /application/controllers/sendmails.php

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Sendmails extends CI_Controller {

    public function htmlmail(){
    	$userEmail='email@domain.com'
        $subject='Test'
        $config = Array(       
            'mailtype' => 'html',
             'charset' => 'utf-8',
             'priority' => '1'
        );
        $this->load->library('email', $config);
    $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
   
        $this->email->from('your mail id', 'Pheonix solutions');
        $data = array(
             'userName'=> 'Pheonix solutions'
                 );
        $this->email->to($userEmail);  // replace it with receiver mail id
    $this->email->subject($subject); // replace it with relevant subject
   
        $body = $this->load->view('emails/test-email.php',$data,TRUE);
    $this->email->message($body);  
        $this->email->send();
    }
       
}

?>

Step 3: Call the controller method in as per your requirement.

http://[domain name]/Sendmails/htmlmail

2 thoughts on “How to send email using HTML templates in Codeigniter”

  1. Thank you! it’s worked well.
    but no styling.

    I used a simple Bootstrap page template. but not styles or color applied.

    anyway, thank you

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