Email Helper¶
The Email Helper provides some assistive functions for working with Email. For a more robust email solution, see CodeIgniter’s Email Class.
Important
The Email helper is DEPRECATED and is currently only kept for backwards compatibility.
Available Functions¶
The following functions are available:
-
valid_email
($email)¶ Parameters: - $email (string) – E-mail address
Returns: TRUE if a valid email is supplied, FALSE otherwise
Return type: bool
Checks if the input is a correctly formatted e-mail address. Note that it doesn’t actually prove that the address will be able to receive mail, but simply that it is a validly formed address.
Example:
if (valid_email('[email protected]')) { echo 'email is valid'; } else { echo 'email is not valid'; }
Note
All that this function does is to use PHP’s native
filter_var()
:(bool) filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
-
send_email
($recipient, $subject, $message)¶ Parameters: - $recipient (string) – E-mail address
- $subject (string) – Mail subject
- $message (string) – Message body
Returns: TRUE if the mail was successfully sent, FALSE in case of an error
Return type: bool
Sends an email using PHP’s native mail() function.
Note
All that this function does is to use PHP’s native
mail
mail($recipient, $subject, $message);
For a more robust email solution, see CodeIgniter’s Email Library.