Codeigniter contact form email

Question

I\'m trying to set up a contact form in Codeigniter (I\'m running on xampp using Apache and I have a virtual host set up). I have the actual form working but when I try to link

Answer 1

I think perhaps email smpt needs ssl:// and if you are using xampp or wamp for testing email you need to configure the mail settings.

'smtp_host' => 'smtp.mydomain.co.uk',

And Should Be

'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.mydomain.co.uk';

How to setup email on xampp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7MfDcM-Ho

public function contact() {
$this->load->helper('form');
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$this->load->library('email');
$this->load->library('url');

$this->form_validation->set_rules('name', 'Your Name', 'required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'your email address', 'required');

// Removed Array From Form Validation


if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE) {

$this->load->view('templates/headder');
$this->load->view('contact');
$this->load->view('templates/footer');

} else {

$config = array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.mydomain.co.uk',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'smtp_user' => 'example@mydomain.co.uk',
'smtp_pass' => 'mypassword',
'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',
'wordwrap' => TRUE,
);

$this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->from('ecample@example.co.uk', 'Tester');
$this->email->to('example@mydomain.co.uk');
$this->email->subject('New Query');
$message = 'This is a test message... do I work?';
$this->email->message($message);

if($this->email->send()){
$this->load->view('templates/header'); // Fix spelling Mistake hedder
$this->load->view('sent');
$this->load->view('templates/footer');
} else {
$this->load->view('templates/header'); // Fix spelling Mistake hedder
$this->load->view('contact');
$this->load->view('templates/footer');
}
}
}