Sending email with gmail smtp with codeigniter email library

$config = Array(
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => 'xxx',
    'smtp_pass' => 'xxx',
    'mailtype'  => 'html', 
    'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'
);
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

// Set to, from, message, etc.

$result = $this->email->send();

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You need to enable SSL in your PHP config. Load up php.ini and find a line with the following:

;extension=php_openssl.dll

Uncomment it. :D

(by removing the semicolon from the statement)

extension=php_openssl.dll

According to the CI docs (CodeIgniter Email Library)...

If you prefer not to set preferences using the above method, you can instead put them into a config file. Simply create a new file called the email.php, add the $config array in that file. Then save the file at config/email.php and it will be used automatically. You will NOT need to use the $this->email->initialize() function if you save your preferences in a config file.

I was able to get this to work by putting all the settings into application/config/email.php.

$config['useragent'] = 'CodeIgniter';
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
//$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com';
$config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'YOURPASSWORDHERE';
$config['smtp_port'] = 465; 
$config['smtp_timeout'] = 5;
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['wrapchars'] = 76;
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['charset'] = 'utf-8';
$config['validate'] = FALSE;
$config['priority'] = 3;
$config['crlf'] = "\r\n";
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['bcc_batch_mode'] = FALSE;
$config['bcc_batch_size'] = 200;

Then, in one of the controller methods I have something like:

$this->load->library('email'); // Note: no $config param needed
$this->email->from('[email protected]', '[email protected]');
$this->email->to('[email protected]');
$this->email->subject('Test email from CI and Gmail');
$this->email->message('This is a test.');
$this->email->send();

Also, as Cerebro wrote, I had to uncomment out this line in my php.ini file and restart PHP:

extension=php_openssl.dll

Change it to the following:

$ci = get_instance();
$ci->load->library('email');
$config['protocol'] = "smtp";
$config['smtp_host'] = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$config['smtp_port'] = "465";
$config['smtp_user'] = "[email protected]"; 
$config['smtp_pass'] = "yourpassword";
$config['charset'] = "utf-8";
$config['mailtype'] = "html";
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";

$ci->email->initialize($config);

$ci->email->from('[email protected]', 'Blabla');
$list = array('[email protected]');
$ci->email->to($list);
$this->email->reply_to('[email protected]', 'Explendid Videos');
$ci->email->subject('This is an email test');
$ci->email->message('It is working. Great!');
$ci->email->send();