Use CodeIgniter's email library outside CodeIgniter.
Full Documentation at http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/email.html
$email = new \werx\Email\Message();
$email->clear();
$email->from('me@example.com', 'My Name');
$email->to('you@example.com');
$email->subject('your subject line');
$email->attach($attachment, 'attachment', 'filename.html', 'text/html');
$email->message('Message body goes here.');
$email->send();
This package is installable and autoloadable via Composer as werx/email. If you aren’t familiar with the Composer Dependency Manager for PHP, you should read this first.
$ composer require werx/email --prefer-dist
There are unit tests available for this package. To run them, you must have MailCatcher installed and running.
You can also see the latest build on Travis CI.
$ vendor/bin/phpunit