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Question

ok so here i'm looking for some help. i have a contact us form of a website. It has three fields name, email and message. What i need to do is when user fills the form email should be send on admin email which display message of the user and its email and name too. I have a code which is working fine it gives me the message of email sent but when i open mail there is no email. Kindly i need your help. Here is the code
<h3 class="title-big wow fadeIn">Contact Us</h3>
<br>
</div>
<div class="col-md-12 text-center">
<?php if($success != ""): ?>
<span class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-4" style="color:#D91E18"> <?php echo $success;?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="form-group col-md-offset-4 col-md-4 col-md-offset-4 wow fadeInDown">
<form name="myform" role="form" action="sendmail" method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<?php echo form_input($first_name);?>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<?php echo form_input($email);?>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<?php echo form_textarea($message1);?>
<br>
<a class="sign-up-button btn btn-border btn-lg col-md-offset-3 col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 wow fadeInUp" data-wow-delay="1s" href="javascript: submitform()">Submit Query</a>
</div>
</form>
controller.php
public function contact()
{
$data['success'] = (validation_errors() ? validation_errors() : ($this->session->flashdata('message')));
//$data['message'] = (validation_errors() ? validation_errors() : ($this->session->flashdata('message')));
$data['message1'] = array(
'name' => 'message1',
'id' => 'message1',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "Enter message here...",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 500,
'rows' => 5,
'cols' => 41,
);
$data['first_name'] = array(
'name' => 'first_name',
'id' => 'first_name',
'type' => 'text',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "First Name...",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 50,
);
$data['email'] = array(
'name' => 'email',
'id' => 'email',
'type' => 'text',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "Email Address (Mandatory)",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 128,
);
$this->load->view('contact',$data);
}
public function sendmail()
{
$this->form_validation->set_rules('first_name', 'Name', 'required');
//$this->form_validation->set_rules('last_name', 'Name', 'required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('message1', 'Message', 'required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'Email Address', 'required');
//$this->form_validation->set_rules('email_confirm', 'Reenter Email Address', 'required');
if ($this->form_validation->run() == true)
{
$data = array(
'first_name' => $this->input->post('first_name'),
//'last_name' => $this->input->post('last_name'),
'message1' => $this->input->post('message1'),
'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
);
//if ($this->form_validation->run() == true)
//{
$config = array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'auth' => true,
'smtp_user' => '********#gmail.com',
'smtp_pass' => '********'
);
$emailsubject = $data['first_name']." ".$data['last_name']." has sent a Query message.";
$this->load->library('email',$config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
// $this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->from('********#gmail.com', 'AOTS Lahore Regional Center');
//$this->email->to('********#gmail.com');
$this->email->to('********#gmail.com');
$this->email->cc('********#gmail.com');
$this->email->subject($emailsubject);
$this->email->message($data['message1']."\nEmail ID: ".$data['email']);
if ($this->email->send())
{
$data['success'] = "Your Query has been sent successfully... !!";
//$data['message'] = (validation_errors() ? validation_errors() : ($this->session->flashdata('message')));
$data['message1'] = array(
'name' => 'message1',
'id' => 'message1',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "Enter message here...",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 500,
'rows' => 5,
'cols' => 41,
);
$data['first_name'] = array(
'name' => 'first_name',
'id' => 'first_name',
'type' => 'text',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "First Name...",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 50,
);
$data['email'] = array(
'name' => 'email',
'id' => 'email',
'type' => 'text',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "Email Address (Mandatory)",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 128,
);
$this->load->view('contact',$data);
}
else
{
$data['success'] = show_error( $this->email->print_debugger());
}
}
//}
else
{
$data['success'] = (validation_errors() ? validation_errors() : ($this->session->flashdata('message')));
$data['message1'] = array(
'name' => 'message1',
'id' => 'message1',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "Enter message here...",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 500,
'rows' => 5,
'cols' => 41,
);
$data['first_name'] = array(
'name' => 'first_name',
'id' => 'first_name',
'type' => 'text',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "First Name...",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 50,
);
$data['email'] = array(
'name' => 'email',
'id' => 'email',
'type' => 'text',
'class' => 'form-control',
'placeholder' => "Email Address (Mandatory)",
'size' => 32,
'maxlength' => 128,
);
$this->load->view('contact',$data);
}
}
********#gmail.com is the email where mail should be send

Answer 1

You need to use :
$config = Array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'smtp_user' => '********#gmail.com',
'smtp_pass' => '********',
'mailtype' => 'html',
'charset' => 'iso-8859-1'
);

Answer 2

In order to send an email from (say) youremailid#gmail.com to an email id *****#gmail.com follow the steps below:
step 1) the config array as below
$config = array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'auth' => true,
'smtp_user' => 'youremailid*****#gmail.com', // email id of sender in this case 'youremailid#gmail.com' is the sender
'smtp_pass' => 'passwordofyouremailid', // password of sender gmail id ie. password of 'youremailid#gmail.com'
'newline' => "\r\n",
);
step 2) Load the email library and call initialize
$this->load->library('email',$config);
$this->email->initialize($config);
step 3) After setting subjects and other info into variables do the following
$this->email->from('youremailid****#gmail.com', 'Sender Name'); // sender emailid and name in this case `youremailid#gmail.com` is sending email
$this->email->to('*****#gmail.com'); // receiver email id in this case '*****#gmail.com' is to whome you want to send . so *****#gmail.com is the email id
$this->email->cc('*****#gmail.com'); // same as above if you want cc to include
$this->email->subject($emailsubject); // subject of email
if ($this->email->send())
{
// rest of your code
}
remember there youremailid#gmail.com is the sender and *****#gmail.com is the receiver.