Php Mailer To Multiple Addresses Issue

[phpjayx]

I'm very new to PHP, so some of this may be very obvious to others, so I'm hoping for some help.....

I'm just looking for how to send in multiple variables and send one message to multiple email addresses. I get it to work if I only use one variable, but not multiple.

 

Thanks in advance!!!

 

(the error that I get back from my Charles debugger........ You must provide at least one recipient email address.<br />^8_2

 

 

 

 

require_once ('mail/class.phpmailer.php');

 

function sentEmailSMTP2($email, $email2)

{

 

 

$string2 = $email . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@hotmail.com";

 

$to = $string2;

 

$from = "me@domain.com";

$subject = 'messageX';

$message = 'Its ready';

$headers = 'From: me2@domain.com' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: me2@domain.com' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

 

 

$host = "mail.domain.com";

$username = "UID@domain.com";

$password = "pass";

$mail = new PHPMailer();

 

$mail -> IsSMTP();

// telling the class to use SMTP

$mail -> SMTPAuth = true;

$mail -> SMTPKeepAlive = true;

$mail -> Host = $host;

$mail -> Username = $username;

$mail -> Password = $password;

$mail -> SetFrom($from, 'Test ');

$mail -> Subject = $subject;

$mail -> AddAddress($string2);

$mail -> Body = $message;

if (!$mail -> Send())

{

echo "Mailer Error (" . str_replace("@", "@", $string2) . ') ' . $mail -> ErrorInfo . '<br />';

}

else

{

echo "Message sent to :" . $string2 . ' (' . str_replace("@", "@", $string2) . ')<br />';

}

 

}

[jazzman1]

Have you tried to change $string2 form a string to an array?

[mrMarcus]

I don't see where you're passing your recipients ($to) to the mail handler.

 

Small, but annoying... why do this:

 

$string2 = $email . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@hotmail.com";
$to = $string2;

 

Just do:

 

$to = $email . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@hotmail.com";

 

EDIT: my bad, I see that you're passing $string2. Confusion with your choice in variable names.

Edited November 22, 2012 by mrMarcus

[jazzman1]

You can remove $to from the script or to be like @mrMarcus wrote - $to = $email . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@hotmail.com";

After that, just assign it to an array instead of a string.

 

$to = array($email . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@yahoo.com" . "," . $email2 . "@hotmail.com");

[mrMarcus]

If you echo $string2, do you get expected results? Is $string2 formatted properly as per how $mail->AddAddress() is expecting it?

[mrMarcus]

Just taking 3 seconds and looking at the documentation for phpmailer, it appears each recipient must be added separately:

 

$mail->AddAddress($email);
$mail->AddAddress($email2);

[jazzman1]

Just taking 3 seconds and looking at the documentation for phpmailer, it appears each recipient must be added separately:

 

$mail->AddAddress($email);
$mail->AddAddress($email2);

That' s why I told him to use array.

Repeating the same code multiple times is a very bad practice, too.

Edited November 22, 2012 by jazzman1

[mrMarcus]

That' s why I told him to use array.

Repeating the same code multiple times is a very bad practice, too.

 

$mail->AddAddress() does not accept an array. It accepts 2 arguments/values:

 

$mail->AddAddress('john@doe.com', 'John Doe');

 

With the second argument being optional.

 

Best "practice" in a case where you might have several to many recipients might be to collect your recipients in an array, first, and then loop through the array. Keeping in mind that each individual recipient must be added to the mail handler individually.

[jazzman1]

$mail->AddAddress() does not accept an array. It accepts 2 arguments/values:

 

$mail->AddAddress('john@doe.com', 'John Doe');

 

With the second argument being optional.

 

Best "practice" in a case where you might have several to many recipients might be to collect your recipients in an array, first, and then loop through the array. Keeping in mind that each individual recipient must be added to the mail handler individually.

No, that doesn't make any sense!

You want to tell me that if I want to send 1000 mails, I need to copy/paste that property 1000 times?

It could be something like this, I preffer this format it's called - RFC # 822

Example:

 

$e_list = array("joeDoe@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe","joeDoe_1@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe 1","joeDoe_2@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe 2","joeDoe_3@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe 3");
$mail->AddAddress($e_list);

[jazzman1]

Where did you get that:

$mail->AddAddress('john@doe.com', 'John Doe');

It should be:

$mail->AddAddress(array('john@doe.com', 'john@doe.com' => 'John Doe'));

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Ummm. Even ignoring the documentation for the method in question, here's the definition of the addaddress() method -

 

  public function AddAddress($address, $name = '') {
   return $this->AddAnAddress('to', $address, $name);
 }

 

and the start of the addanaddress method -

 

 private function AddAnAddress($kind, $address, $name = '') {
   if (!preg_match('/^(to|cc|bcc|ReplyTo)$/', $kind)) {
  echo 'Invalid recipient array: ' . kind;
  return false;
   }
   $address = trim($address);
   $name = trim(preg_replace('/[\r\n]+/', '', $name)); //Strip breaks and trim

 

It/they DON'T accept an array of addresses.

[mrMarcus]

No, that doesn't make any sense!

You want to tell me that if I want to send 1000 mails, I need to copy/paste that property 1000 times?

It could be something like this, I preffer this format it's called - RFC # 822

Example:

 

$e_list = array("joeDoe@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe","joeDoe_1@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe 1","joeDoe_2@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe 2","joeDoe_3@gmail.com"=>"Joe Doe 3");
$mail->AddAddress($e_list);

 

The AddAddress() function does not accept arrays.

 

When you add a recipient to the AddAddress() function, it queues each recipient for bulk sending. No email is sent until x number of recipients have been added to the queue whether it be 1, 10, or 10,000.

 

Where did you get that:

$mail->AddAddress('john@doe.com', 'John Doe');

It should be:

$mail->AddAddress(array('john@doe.com', 'john@doe.com' => 'John Doe'));

 

No, it should be:

 

$mail->AddAddress('john@doe.com', 'John Doe');

 

If you don't believe me, try it your way and post your results.

[jazzman1]

Hm...@mrMarcus, you are right, that method doesn't accept an array only a string -> http://phpmailer.wor....php?pg=methods

I've never used phpMailer.

 

@OP, try this

 

$string2 = array(
$email.'@yahoo.com' => 'Person One',
$email2.'@yahoo.com' => 'Person Two',
$email2.'@hotmail.com' => 'Person Three'
// ...etc
);
foreach($string2 as $email => $name)
{
$mail->AddAddress($email, $name);
}

[phpjayx]

Thank you all for the help, the last few posts got it working for me.... Thanks!!!