> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.minical.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.minical.io/build-an-extension/build-your-first-extension/library.md).

# Library

The library is a class with functions or methods that allows creating an instance of that class. For your extensions you can add a library under the libraries folder, the naming convention should be like GreetingEmail.php. here is an example of a library.

```php
<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class GreetingEmail {

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->ci =& get_instance();

        $this->ci->load->library('Email');
        $this->module_name = 'minical-extension-boilerplate';

    }   

    function send_greeting_email()
    {
        $company_id = $this->ci->session->userdata('current_company_id');
        $company = $this->ci->Company_model->get_company($company_id);

        $content =  'Dear [first name] I hope this email finds you well';
        $content1 = "<br/><br/>".'Thank you for your business'.",<br/><br/>"
            .$company['name']."
                <br/>".$company['email']. "<br/>".$company['phone']."<br/>";


        $config['mailtype'] = 'html';

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

        $email_data = array (
            'company_name' => $company['name'],
            'company_email' => $company['email'],
            'content' => $content,
            'content1' => $content1
        );

        $customer_email = $company['email'];

        $from_email = 'donotreply@minical.io';

        $email_from = $company['email'];

        $this->ci->email->from($email_from, $company['name']);
        $this->ci->email->to($customer_email);
        $this->ci->email->reply_to($email_data['company_email']);

        $this->ci->email->subject('Hello From miniCal');

        $this->ci->email->message($this->ci->load->view('../extensions/'.$this->module_name.'/views/gretting-mail-html', $email_data, true));

        $this->ci->email->send();
        $msg = l('minical-extension-boilerplate/Email successfully sent to ', true);
        return $msg.$customer_email;
    }

}
?>
```

**Loading of library**

You can load the library into controller, hooks, helper, or model, for loading your custom extension's library use the given syntax.&#x20;

$this->module\_name will have the extension name as value, or you can use the hardcode extension name at its place.

```php
//In controller 
$this->load->library('../extensions/'.$this->module_name.'/libraries/GreetingEmail');
$this->load->library('../extensions/minical-extension-boilerplate/libraries/GreetingEmail');

//In hooks and filter
$CI = &get_instance();
$CI->load->library('../extensions/minical-extension-boilerplate/libraries/GreetingEmail');
 
```


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