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05-08-2012, 02:35 PM

[eluser]brian88[/eluser]
So I use the typical email code like this

Quote:if( $this->input->post() ){
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from( $this->input->post('email'), $this->input->post('name'));
$this->email->to('[email protected]');
$this->email->subject('Email Test');
$this->email->message(
"Name: " . $this->input->post("name") . "\n" .
"Email: " . $this->input->post("email") . "\n" .
"Message: " . $this->input->post("message")
);
$this->email->send();
}

And you get an email plain and simple
Name: yourname
Email: [email protected]
Message: your message...

Is there anyway to style this output better so it looks better on an email client such as gmail?

05-08-2012, 02:42 PM

[eluser]Matalina[/eluser]
send as html and use html to format.

You'll have to change the config of the email library to send html.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...email.html check email preferences to set up the config file.

05-08-2012, 03:36 PM

[eluser]rip_pit[/eluser]
the email lib can use views as "template".
So first prepare an html template in the views like this

/application/views/email_tpl_html.php

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

  &lt;head&gt;

    &lt;style&gt;/*your custom css styles*/&lt;/style&gt;

  &lt;/head&gt;

  &lt;body&gt;

    <h1>E-Mail from &lt;?php echo $sitename;?&gt;</h1>

    <p>click here to go to the website &lt;?php echo $siteurl ?&gt;.</p>

  &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

Then load it with something like :

Code:
$view_data = array('sitename'=>'My website','siteurl'=>'mysite.com');

$this->load->library('email');

$this->email->from('user@mail', 'user name');

$this->email->reply_to('user@mail');

$this->email->to('dest@mail');

$this->email->subject('subject');

$this->email->message($this->load->view('email_tpl_html.php', $view_data, TRUE));

//if you want text only alternative included, enable and prepare another text only tpl:

//$this->email->set_alt_message($this->load->view('email_tpl_txt.php', $view_data, TRUE));

$this->email->send();

05-09-2012, 07:14 AM

[eluser]brian88[/eluser]
thanks fellas. got it to work

09-19-2012, 03:22 PM

[eluser]mact1079[/eluser]
Any idea why I would get this error? When I have the template in views/email_templates/welcome.php?

Severity: 4096
Message: Object of class CI_Email could not be converted to string
Filename: libraries/Email.php
Line Number: 383

Code:

$data = array('sitename'=>'Welcome','siteurl'=>'mydomain.com');

$message = $this->email->message($this->load->view('email_templates/welcome', $data, TRUE));

$this->email->from('[email protected]', 'Site'); $this->email->to($this->session->userdata('email'),$this->session->userdata('firstName') . " " . $this->session->userdata('lastName'));

$this->email->subject('Welcome, ' . $this->session->userdata('firstName'));

$this->email->message($message);

$this->email->send();

This is the content of welcome.php

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

 <p>This is a test</p>

&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

09-19-2012, 04:21 PM

[eluser]xerobytez[/eluser]
Change the code on line 2 from.

Code:
$message = $this->email->message($this->load->view('email_templates/welcome', $data, TRUE));

to:

Code:
$message = $this->load->view('email_templates/welcome', $data, TRUE);

09-19-2012, 04:31 PM

[eluser]mact1079[/eluser]
Wow. I'm an idiot. Seriously sorry for wasting your time on that one!