I want to send a simple view with Codeigniter through an email so that the email looks nice to the user. How do I do this? Here is my code so far in my controller.
public function test_email()
{
$message = $this->load->view('application/recommendation_email', '', TRUE);
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from('xxxxxxx@gmail.com', 'something');
$this->email->to('xxxxxxx@gmail.com');
$this->email->subject('Letter of Recommendation Request');
$this->email->message($message);
$this->email->send();
}
Currently it's just sending html code to me. But I want it took like the way it is in the browser. Here's my html + css.
<html>
<body>
<p>Dear Joe<?php //echo $name ?>,
</p>
<p>SOME TEXT
</p>
<a href="a reference">a reference
</a><br><br><br>
<p>Thanks,<br><br>
The Team
</p>
</body>
</html>
<style type='text/css'>
body{
font-family: "Lucida Grande";
background-color: #fdfdfd;
}
a {
color: #008ee8;
text-decoration: none;
outline: none;
}
a:hover {
color: #ec8526;
text-decoration: none;
}
</style>