电子邮件组件cakephp

Question

First time using the email component... I followed the book instruction and I set this

function sendNewUserMail($id) {
    $User = $this->User->read(null,$id);
    $this->Email->to = array('MyEmai@gmail.com'); 
    $this->Email->from = 'MyEmai@gmail.com';
    $this->Email->subject = 'Welcome to our really cool thing';
    $this->Email->template = 'simple_message'; 

    $this->Email->sendAs = 'text'; 
    $this->Email->smtpOptions = array(
        'port'=>'465', 
        'timeout'=>'30',
        'auth' => true,
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'username'=>'MyEmail@gmail.com',
        'password'=>'*********'   
    );
    $this->set('User', $User);
    $this->Email->delivery = 'smtp';
    $this->Email->send();
    $this->set('smtp_errors', $this->Email->smtpError);
 }

I try to run the method, but nothing happens... I created the layouts, the elements, and put var $component = array('Email');

I'm getting this error

Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?: 16

by the way I at home so no firewalls, no blocking etc

Answer 1

Gmail smtp requires a secure connection and it looks like your PHP configuration doesn't have ssl enabled. Open php.ini and look for a line that looks like

;extension=php_openssl.dll

or

#extension=openssl.so

and uncomment it (remove the ; or the #), then restart PHP.

If you can't find such line there you may need to install OpenSSL first.