Error when calling send method in Codeigniter email library - php

Question

Edited:
Im trying to send an email using codeigniter's library. Whenever I call the $this->email->send() function it returns
Warning: include(C:\xampp\htdocs\psems\application\views\errors\html\error_php.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\psems\system\core\Exceptions.php on line 269
Warning: include(): Failed opening
'C:\xampp\htdocs\psems\application\views\errors\html\error_php.php'
for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in
C:\xampp\htdocs\psems\system\core\Exceptions.php on line 269
This is the code I have so far
$config = array();
$config['useragent'] = "CodeIgniter";
$config['mailpath'] = "/usr/bin/sendmail"; // or "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
$config['protocol'] = "smtp";
$config['smtp_host'] = "localhost";
$config['smtp_port'] = "25";
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['charset'] = 'utf-8';
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->from('example#gmail.com', 'harold decapia');
$this->email->to('example#gmail.com');
$this->email->subject('Тест Email');
$this->email->message('Hello World');
$this->email->send(); //I tried commenting this out and there was no error returned
I'm confused as to why it returns an error just by calling the send method. Do I have to configure something first? I'm thinking I'm missing a tiny bit of info here :(
Also, is there any way for me to know what error it returns specifically? Thank you in advance

Answer 1

The error as far as I can see it's coming because you're trying to send an email with SMTP on a server without and actual FTP server (Happens a lot with local servers).
I'm going to suggest a free service like Mailgun to use as an SMTP server while you're developing.
Also if you're going to use SMTP protocol, you'll need to use an User and Password to authenticate on the SMTP server (Mailgun will provide you with that too).
Here it's a sample of the new configurations for the SMTP server/authentication, remember you need to adjust to the information the Mailgun website will give you on your account.
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.mailgun.org';
$config['smtp_port'] = '465';
$config['smtp_timeout'] = '30';
$config['smtp_user'] = 'postmaster#mydomain.com';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'password';
$config['charset'] = 'utf-8';
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
:)