CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

Sending attachments with CodeIgniter Email

There might be times when you wish to send an attachment along with the e-mail, such as an invoice to a customer for a recent purchase or perhaps an image. The CodeIgniter Email library can easily be set to do just that.

How to do it...

You can send attachments with CodeIgniter Email by executing the following steps:

1. Create a file email.php at /path/to/codeigniter/application/controllers/.
2. Add the following code to the controller file, email.php:

   <?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); class Email extends CI_Controller { function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->load->helper('url'); $this->load->library('email'); } public function index() { redirect('email/send_email'); ...