using variables with code igniter email class

Question

I'm setting a system that when a user creates an account, and email is sent sending a link with a token to verify their account and change the status from pending to active.

in the create user function, when they are sent to the confirmation page after all the other criteria is checked out - I am loading a email verification function in my model that pulls certain info from the db and sends them an email. I am having trouble getting the emails to send and am not sure if the variables are able to be passed in this manner, although I have echoed them and they are existing.

Here is my controller portion:

$this->load->model('user_model');
            if($query = $this->user_model->create_member())
            {
                $this->load->model('User_model');
                $this->User_model->varification_email();
                $data['main_content'] = 'account/welcome';
                $this->load->view('includes/templates/main_page_template', $data);

            }

and the model portion:

f

unction varification_email()
    {
            $query = $this->db->query('SELECT * FROM users order by id desc LIMIT 1');

            foreach ($query->result() as $user)
            {
                $this->load->library('email');
                $this->email->from('noreply@blah.org', 'noreply');
                $this->email->to($user->email); 
                $this->email->subject('test');
                $this->email->message('test');    
                $this->email->send();

        }
    }

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just to be sure - do you have an SMTP mail server running and setup correctly? If you are developing locally, you still need an SMTP server to send e-mails.

For development, use tool such as Papercut to test e-mail communication.