发送电子邮件验证链接与php codeigniter

Question

I want to send an email verification link to the user with PHP CodeIgniter.

This is my controller function.

public function Sent_Confirmation_Email()
{
    $emailid  = $this->uri->segment(3);

    $verificationLink = base_url() . 'MainController/Confirm_Activation/'.$emailid;

    $msg .= "Please use the link below to activate your account..<br /><br /><br />";

    $msg .= "<a href='".$verificationLink."' target='_blank'>VERIFY EMAIL</a><br /><br /><br />";

    $msg .= "Kind regards,<br />";

    $msg .= "Company Name";         

    if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
    {
        date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
    }        

    $config = array(
        'protocol' => 'smtp',
        'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
        'smtp_port' => 465,
        'smtp_user' => '[e-mail]',
        'smtp_pass' => 'password'
    );

    $this->load->library('email',$config);
    $this->email->set_newline("
");
    $this->email->isHTML(true);
    $this->email->from("[e-mail]");
    $this->email->to("$emailid");
    $this->email->subject("Email Confirmation - Courses and Tutors");
    $this->email->message($msg);

    if($this->email->send())
    {
    $this->session->set_flashdata('msg', 'A confirmation email has been sent to ' . $emailid .'. Please activate your account using the link provided.');
        redirect(base_url() . 'MainController/EConfirmationPage/'.$emailid);
    } else {
        show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
    }
}

Note that I am sending emails from my localhost. I receive the email but the problem is it shows the html tags as well. This is the email which I received:

Please use the link below to activate your account..<br /><br /><br /><a
href='http://localhost/tutorhunt/MainController/Confirm_Activation/[e-mail]'
target='_blank'>VERIFY EMAIL</a><br /><br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Company
Name

Answer 1

Try to initialize email library and add mailtype as following

    $this->email->initialize(array(
          'protocol'  => 'smtp',
          'smtp_host' => 'ssl://mailserver',
          'smtp_user' => 'user',
          'smtp_pass' => 'password',
          'smtp_port' => 465,
          'crlf'      => "
",
          'newline'   => "
",
          'mailtype'  => 'html',
    ));