Email Helper

An Email helper to work with the Swift email library.

The swiftmailer configuration for this helper is found in config/email.php

Inside the config/email.php file you can select the driver type which are native, sendmail, smtp

Example: using smtp

$config['driver'] = 'smtp';
 
$config['options'] = array('hostname'=>'yourhostname', 'username'=>'yourusername', 'password'=>'yourpassword', 'port'=>'25');

'send' sends an e-mail using the specified information. The parameters are:

• [string] address to send email to
• [string] address to send email from
• [string] subject of the email
• [string] body of the email
• [boolean] send email as HTML (defaults to false)

Example:

$to      = 'to@example.com';  // Address can also be array('to@example.com', 'Name')
$from    = 'from@example.com';
$subject = 'This is an example subject';
$message = 'This is an <strong>example</strong> message';
 
email::send($to, $from, $subject, $message, TRUE);