sent email verification link with php condeigniter - php

Question

I want to send an email verification link to the user with PHP CodeIgniter.
This is my controller function.
public function Sent_Confirmation_Email()
{
$emailid = $this->uri->segment(3);
$verificationLink = base_url() . 'MainController/Confirm_Activation/'.$emailid;
$msg .= "Please use the link below to activate your account..<br /><br /><br />";
$msg .= "<a href='".$verificationLink."' target='_blank'>VERIFY EMAIL</a><br /><br /><br />";
$msg .= "Kind regards,<br />";
$msg .= "Company Name";
if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
{
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
}
$config = array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'smtp_user' => 'sender#gmail.com',
'smtp_pass' => 'password'
);
$this->load->library('email',$config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$this->email->isHTML(true);
$this->email->from("sender#gmail.com");
$this->email->to("$emailid");
$this->email->subject("Email Confirmation - Courses and Tutors");
$this->email->message($msg);
if($this->email->send())
{
$this->session->set_flashdata('msg', 'A confirmation email has been sent to ' . $emailid .'. Please activate your account using the link provided.');
redirect(base_url() . 'MainController/EConfirmationPage/'.$emailid);
} else {
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
}
Note that I am sending emails from my localhost. I receive the email but the problem is it shows the html tags as well. This is the email which I received:
Please use the link below to activate your account..<br /><br /><br /><a
href='http://localhost/tutorhunt/MainController/Confirm_Activation/fareedshuja#gmail.com'
target='_blank'>VERIFY EMAIL</a><br /><br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Company
Name

Answer 1

Try to initialize email library and add mailtype as following
$this->email->initialize(array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://mailserver',
'smtp_user' => 'user',
'smtp_pass' => 'password',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'crlf' => "\r\n",
'newline' => "\r\n",
'mailtype' => 'html',
));

Answer 2

To Send Verification Link In Email Using Email Template is simpler than adding HTML content as a message and send it.
Creare an array of the variable which you want to send in an email.
Load that email template view and load that variable array and set the variable in the template properly.
Here is the code sample:
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$this->email->isHTML(true);
$this->email->from("sender#gmail.com");
$this->email->to("$emailid");
$this->email->subject("Email Confirmation - Courses and Tutors");
$template_data = array(
'verificationLink' => base_url() . 'MainController/Confirm_Activation/'.$emailid,
'message' => 'Please use the link below to activate your account..',
'company_name' => 'test company'
);
$body = $this->load->view ('your_view.php', ['template_data'=>$template_data], TRUE); //Set the variable in template Properly
$this->email->message ( $body );
if($this->email->send())
{
$this->session->set_flashdata('msg', 'A confirmation email has been sent to ' . $emailid .'. Please activate your account using the link provided.');
redirect(base_url() . 'MainController/EConfirmationPage/'.$emailid);
} else {
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}