PHPMailer

Download the distribution. Rename folder, phpmailerv2.3 to phpmailer. Save in Application/plugins directory. Create file and name to phpmailer_pi.php

phpmailer_pi.php

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

function send_email($recipient, $sender, $subject, $message) { require_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = $message;
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->FromName = "Bargain Philippines";
$mail->From = $sender;
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->AltBody = strip_tags($message);
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAddress($recipient);
if ( ! $mail->Send())
{
    echo 'Failed to Send';
}
else
{
    echo 'Mail Sent';
}

} ?>

From the controller:

<?php public function forgot_password() { $this->load->plugin('phpmailer'); send_mail('[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'subject', 'message body'); }

?>