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function sendemail(){
if ($this- > input- > post(‘subject’)){
$test = $this- > input- > post(‘test’);
$subject = $this- > input- > post(‘subject’);
$msg = $this- > input- > post(‘message’);
if ($test){
$this- > email- > clear();
$this- > email- > from(‘[email protected]’, ‘ClaudiasKids.net’);
$this- > email- > to(‘[email protected]’);
$this- > email- > subject($subject);
$this- > email- > message($msg);
$this- > email- > send();
$this- > session- > set_flashdata(‘message’, “Test email sent”);
}else{
$subs = $this- > MSubscribers- > getAllSubscribers();
foreach ($subs as $key = > $list){
$unsub = “ < p > < a href=’”. base_url().”welcome/unsubscribe/”
.$list[‘id’]. “’ > Unsubscribe < /a > < /p > ”;
$this- > email- > clear();
$this- > email- > from(‘[email protected]’, ‘ClaudiasKids.net’);
$this- > email- > to($list[‘email’]);
$this- > email- > bcc(‘[email protected]’);
$this- > email- > subject($subject);
$this- > email- > message($msg. $unsub);
$this- > email- > send();
}
$this- > session- > set_flashdata(‘message’, count($subs). “ emails sent”);
}
redirect(‘admin/subscribers/index’,’refresh’);
}else{
$data[‘title’] = “Send Email”;
$data[‘main’] = ‘admin_subs_mail’;
$this- > load- > vars($data);
$this- > load- > view(‘dashboard’);
}
}The E - mail class is very simple: it allows you to quickly and easily send e - mails without too much fuss.
Since you ’ re autoloading the class, there ’ s no need to invoke it specifically.First you run $this- > email- > clear() to clear out any settings or variables. You set the “ from ”
address with $this- > email- > from() , the “ to ” address with $this- > email- > to() , and so on. Once
you ’ ve set the subject and message parameters, you can send with $this- > email- > send().The only thing you ’ re doing differently is checking for a test message. If the user has indicated a test
message, then send to a single test address. Otherwise, loop through all the subscribers pulled from the
database table, adding an unsubscribe method to the end of the message.Unsubscribing from within an E - mail
Notice that the last thing you ’ re appending to the e - mail is a line of HTML:$unsub = “ < p > < a href=’”. base_url().”welcome/unsubscribe/”
.$list[‘id’]. “’ > Unsubscribe < /a > < /p > ”;