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62 <p>The Email Helper provides some assistive functions for working with Email. For a more robust email solution, see CodeIgniter's <a href="../libraries/email.html">Email Class</a>.</p>
64 <h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
66 <p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
67 <p><code>$this->load->helper('email');</code></p>
69 <p>The following functions are available:</p>
71 <h2>valid_email('<var>email</var>')</h2>
73 <p>Checks if an email is a correctly formatted email. Note that is doesn't actually prove the email will recieve mail, simply that it is a validly formed address.</p>
74 <p>It returns TRUE/FALSE</p>
75 <code> $this->load->helper('email');<br />
77 if (valid_email('email@somesite.com'))<br />
79 echo 'email is valid';<br />
83 echo 'email is not valid';<br />
85 <h2>send_email('<var>recipient</var>', '<var>subject</var>', '<var>message</var>')</h2>
86 <p>Sends an email using PHP's native <a href="http://www.php.net/function.mail">mail()</a> function. For a more robust email solution, see CodeIgniter's <a href="../libraries/email.html">Email Class</a>.</p>
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