Sending email with gmail smtp with codeigniter email library

$config = Array(    'protocol' => 'smtp',    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',    'smtp_port' => 465,    'smtp_user' => 'xxx',    'smtp_pass' => 'xxx',    'mailtype'  => 'html',     'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1');$this->load->library('email', $config);$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");// Set to, from, message, etc.$result = $this->email->send();

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You need to enable SSL in your PHP config. Load up php.ini and find a line with the following:

;extension=php_openssl.dll

Uncomment it. :D

(by removing the semicolon from the statement)

extension=php_openssl.dll

According to the CI docs (CodeIgniter Email Library)...

If you prefer not to set preferences using the above method, you can instead put them into a config file. Simply create a new file called the email.php, add the $config array in that file. Then save the file at config/email.php and it will be used automatically. You will NOT need to use the $this->email->initialize() function if you save your preferences in a config file.

I was able to get this to work by putting all the settings into application/config/email.php.

$config['useragent'] = 'CodeIgniter';$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';//$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com';$config['smtp_user'] = 'YOUREMAILHERE@gmail.com';$config['smtp_pass'] = 'YOURPASSWORDHERE';$config['smtp_port'] = 465; $config['smtp_timeout'] = 5;$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;$config['wrapchars'] = 76;$config['mailtype'] = 'html';$config['charset'] = 'utf-8';$config['validate'] = FALSE;$config['priority'] = 3;$config['crlf'] = "\r\n";$config['newline'] = "\r\n";$config['bcc_batch_mode'] = FALSE;$config['bcc_batch_size'] = 200;

Then, in one of the controller methods I have something like:

$this->load->library('email'); // Note: no $config param needed$this->email->from('YOUREMAILHERE@gmail.com', 'YOUREMAILHERE@gmail.com');$this->email->to('SOMEEMAILHERE@gmail.com');$this->email->subject('Test email from CI and Gmail');$this->email->message('This is a test.');$this->email->send();

Also, as Cerebro wrote, I had to uncomment out this line in my php.ini file and restart PHP:

extension=php_openssl.dll