Codeigniter emailing - adding BCC - php

Question

I'm new so please bear with me.
I am trying to add a BCC recipient to one of codeigniter applications' email.php config file. The original was created by an employee who has since left our business and I am struggling to add a bcc recipient into the code.
I have searched stackoverflow and tried endless variations but I am not having any luck. All I want to do is define one bcc email recipient.
I would really really really appreciate anybody's help :)
Here is a portion of the the current code I think is relevant:
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
/**
* CodeIgniter
*
* An open source application development framework for PHP 5.1.6 or newer
*
* #package CodeIgniter
* #author ExpressionEngine Dev Team
* #copyright Copyright (c) 2008 - 2011, EllisLab, Inc.
* #license http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/license.html
* #link http://codeigniter.com
* #since Version 1.0
* #filesource
*/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* CodeIgniter Email Class
*
* Permits email to be sent using Mail, Sendmail, or SMTP.
*
* #package CodeIgniter
* #subpackage Libraries
* #category Libraries
* #author ExpressionEngine Dev Team
* #link http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html
*/
class CI_Email {
var $useragent = "CodeIgniter";
var $mailpath = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; // Sendmail path
var $protocol = "mail"; // mail/sendmail/smtp
var $smtp_host = ""; // SMTP Server. Example: mail.earthlink.net
var $smtp_user = ""; // SMTP Username
var $smtp_pass = ""; // SMTP Password
var $smtp_port = "25"; // SMTP Port
var $smtp_timeout = 5; // SMTP Timeout in seconds
var $smtp_crypto = ""; // SMTP Encryption. Can be null, tls or ssl.
var $wordwrap = TRUE; // TRUE/FALSE Turns word-wrap on/off
var $wrapchars = "76"; // Number of characters to wrap at.
var $mailtype = "text"; // text/html Defines email formatting
var $charset = "utf-8"; // Default char set: iso-8859-1 or us-ascii
var $multipart = "mixed"; // "mixed" (in the body) or "related" (separate)
var $alt_message = ''; // Alternative message for HTML emails
var $validate = FALSE; // TRUE/FALSE. Enables email validation
var $priority = "3"; // Default priority (1 - 5)
var $newline = "\n"; // Default newline. "\r\n" or "\n" (Use "\r\n" to comply with RFC 822)
var $crlf = "\n"; // The RFC 2045 compliant CRLF for quoted-printable is "\r\n". Apparently some servers,
// even on the receiving end think they need to muck with CRLFs, so using "\n", while
// distasteful, is the only thing that seems to work for all environments.
var $send_multipart = TRUE; // TRUE/FALSE - Yahoo does not like multipart alternative, so this is an override. Set to FALSE for Yahoo.
var $bcc_batch_mode = FALSE; // TRUE/FALSE Turns on/off Bcc batch feature
var $bcc_batch_size = 200; // If bcc_batch_mode = TRUE, sets max number of Bccs in each batch
var $_safe_mode = FALSE;
var $_subject = "";
var $_body = "";
var $_finalbody = "";
var $_alt_boundary = "";
var $_atc_boundary = "";
var $_header_str = "";
var $_smtp_connect = "";
var $_encoding = "8bit";
var $_IP = FALSE;
var $_smtp_auth = FALSE;
var $_replyto_flag = FALSE;
var $_debug_msg = array();
var $_recipients = array();
var $_cc_array = array();
var $_bcc_array = array();
var $_headers = array();
var $_attach_name = array();
var $_attach_type = array();
var $_attach_disp = array();
var $_protocols = array('mail', 'sendmail', 'smtp');
var $_base_charsets = array('us-ascii', 'iso-2022-'); // 7-bit charsets (excluding language suffix)
var $_bit_depths = array('7bit', '8bit');
var $_priorities = array('1 (Highest)', '2 (High)', '3 (Normal)', '4 (Low)', '5 (Lowest)');
/**
* Constructor - Sets Email Preferences
*
* The constructor can be passed an array of config values
*/
public function __construct($config = array())
{
if (count($config) > 0)
{
$this->initialize($config);
}
else
{
$this->_smtp_auth = ($this->smtp_user == '' AND $this->smtp_pass == '') ? FALSE : TRUE;
$this->_safe_mode = ((boolean)#ini_get("safe_mode") === FALSE) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}
log_message('debug', "Email Class Initialized");
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Initialize preferences
*
* #access public
* #param array
* #return void
*/
public function initialize($config = array())
{
foreach ($config as $key => $val)
{
if (isset($this->$key))
{
$method = 'set_'.$key;
if (method_exists($this, $method))
{
$this->$method($val);
}
else
{
$this->$key = $val;
}
}
}
$this->clear();
$this->_smtp_auth = ($this->smtp_user == '' AND $this->smtp_pass == '') ? FALSE : TRUE;
$this->_safe_mode = ((boolean)#ini_get("safe_mode") === FALSE) ? FALSE : TRUE;
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Initialize the Email Data
*
* #access public
* #return void
*/
public function clear($clear_attachments = FALSE)
{
$this->_subject = "";
$this->_body = "";
$this->_finalbody = "";
$this->_header_str = "";
$this->_replyto_flag = FALSE;
$this->_recipients = array();
$this->_cc_array = array();
$this->_bcc_array = array();
$this->_headers = array();
$this->_debug_msg = array();
$this->_set_header('User-Agent', $this->useragent);
$this->_set_header('Date', $this->_set_date());
if ($clear_attachments !== FALSE)
{
$this->_attach_name = array();
$this->_attach_type = array();
$this->_attach_disp = array();
}
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Set FROM
*
* #access public
* #param string
* #param string
* #return void
*/
public function from($from, $name = '')
{
if (preg_match( '/\<(.*)\>/', $from, $match))
{
$from = $match['1'];
}
if ($this->validate)
{
$this->validate_email($this->_str_to_array($from));
}
// prepare the display name
if ($name != '')
{
// only use Q encoding if there are characters that would require it
if ( ! preg_match('/[\200-\377]/', $name))
{
// add slashes for non-printing characters, slashes, and double quotes, and surround it in double quotes
$name = '"'.addcslashes($name, "\0..\37\177'\"\\").'"';
}
else
{
$name = $this->_prep_q_encoding($name, TRUE);
}
}
$this->_set_header('From', $name.' <'.$from.'>');
$this->_set_header('Return-Path', '<'.$from.'>');
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Set Reply-to
*
* #access public
* #param string
* #param string
* #return void
*/
public function reply_to($replyto, $name = '')
{
if (preg_match( '/\<(.*)\>/', $replyto, $match))
{
$replyto = $match['1'];
}
if ($this->validate)
{
$this->validate_email($this->_str_to_array($replyto));
}
if ($name == '')
{
$name = $replyto;
}
if (strncmp($name, '"', 1) != 0)
{
$name = '"'.$name.'"';
}
$this->_set_header('Reply-To', $name.' <'.$replyto.'>');
$this->_replyto_flag = TRUE;
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Set Recipients
*
* #access public
* #param string
* #return void
*/
public function to($to)
{
$to = $this->_str_to_array($to);
$to = $this->clean_email($to);
if ($this->validate)
{
$this->validate_email($to);
}
if ($this->_get_protocol() != 'mail')
{
$this->_set_header('To', implode(", ", $to));
}
switch ($this->_get_protocol())
{
case 'smtp' :
$this->_recipients = $to;
break;
case 'sendmail' :
case 'mail' :
$this->_recipients = implode(", ", $to);
break;
}
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Set CC
*
* #access public
* #param string
* #return void
*/
public function cc($cc)
{
$cc = $this->_str_to_array($cc);
$cc = $this->clean_email($cc);
if ($this->validate)
{
$this->validate_email($cc);
}
$this->_set_header('Cc', implode(", ", $cc));
if ($this->_get_protocol() == "smtp")
{
$this->_cc_array = $cc;
}
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Set BCC
*
* #access public
* #param string
* #param string
* #return void
*/
public function bcc($bcc, $limit = '')
{
if ($limit != '' && is_numeric($limit))
{
$this->bcc_batch_mode = TRUE;
$this->bcc_batch_size = $limit;
}
$bcc = $this->_str_to_array($bcc);
$bcc = $this->clean_email($bcc);
if ($this->validate)
{
$this->validate_email($bcc);
}
if (($this->_get_protocol() == "smtp") OR ($this->bcc_batch_mode && count($bcc) > $this->bcc_batch_size))
{
$this->_bcc_array = $bcc;
}
else
{
$this->_set_header('Bcc', implode(", ", $bcc));
}
return $this;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 1

Could you please try below that code in your any controller index function and run it.
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from('your#example.com', 'Your Name');
$this->email->to('someone#example.com');
$this->email->cc('another#another-example.com');
$this->email->bcc('them#their-example.com');
$this->email->subject('Email Test');
$this->email->message('Testing the email class.');
$this->email->send();
echo $this->email->print_debugger();

Answer 2

Simple var $bcc_batch_mode = TRUE;
Edit FALSE to TRUE and give a try!!