Adding Mandrill to Codeigniter Emails

This should be quite a simple task if you are using the email library available in the default codeIgniter package.
In this case, you should have the following in your ‘application/config/autoload.php’:

$autoload['libraries'] = array(...,'email');

The 3 dots are there to show that you might have other libraries added here too. For me there is also ‘database’, ‘session’, and ‘form_validation’.

Now to the next steps:

• Sign up to Mandrill App https://mandrillapp.com/
  You probably have to first login into Mailchimp (https://mailchimp.com/) and then open in the same browser the mandrillapp and click button “Log in through MailChimp”
• You will have to first set up your domain on Mandrill if this is not done yet and wait until it is confirm (this might take a day or two)
• Click then inside your Mandrill app dashoard on “Get SMTP credentials”. Copy and go to your codeigniter files..
• Open in CodeIgniter “application/config/email.php” and this new information you got from Mandrill like this, so that you end up with something like this:

  /*
  | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Email
  | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | This file lets you define parameters for sending emails.
  | Please see the user guide for info:
  |
  |	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html
  |
  */
  $config['mailtype'] = 'html';
  $config['charset'] = 'utf-8';
  $config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
  $config['newline'] = "\r\n";
  
  
  //* MANDRILL
  $config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
  $config['smtp_host'] = 'smtp.mandrillapp.com';
  $config['smtp_user'] = 'information from mandrill';
  $config['smtp_pass'] = 'information from mandrill';
  $config['smtp_port'] = '587';

You are now all set.

To send emails you will probably have a function like this in one of your controllers (or maybe in a helper function):

public function sendEmail()
{
    $this->load->library('email'); // if not set in autoload.php

    $this->email->from('your@email.com', 'Your Name');
    $this->email->to('destination@email.com');
    $this->email->subject('your subject');
    $this->email->message('your message ');

    $this->email->send();
}

 

I hope this was helpful