Mass emailing

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

im trying to figure out the best way to do the mass email part of my code, i have put a while loop in but not sure if thats best:

 

<?php
  case "mass-email":
  
    // How many emails
    $q_num = "SELECT * FROM `fcp_customers`";
    $r_num = mysql_query($q_num);
    $n_num = mysql_num_rows($r_num);
  
    print("<form action=\"admin.php?page=mass-email\" method=\"POST\">");
  
    // Mass e-mails form
    print("<table width='80%' border='0' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='1' />\n");
    print("<tr>\n");
    print("<th colspan='2'>Mass E-Mail Customers</th>\n");
    print("</tr>\n"); 
    print("<tr>\n");
    print("<td class='td_style' align='left' valign='top'>E-Mail:</td><td class='td_style' align='left'><select name=\"cus_emails\"><option value=\"email_all\">--> MASS EMAIL ALL CUSTOMERS! - ($n_num) <--</option>");
    
    $q_emails = "SELECT * FROM `fcp_customers`";
    $r_emails = mysql_query($q_emails);
    
    // Loop
    while ($a_emails = mysql_fetch_array($r_emails))
    {
     // Customers email
     $emails = $a_emails['email'];
     
     // Print
     print("<option value=\"$emails\">$emails</option>");
    }
    
    print("</select></td>\n");
    print("</tr>\n"); 
    print("<tr>\n");
    print("<td class=\"td_style\" align='left' valign=\"top\">E-Mail Subject:</td><td class='td_style' align='left'><input type=\"text\" name=\"cus_subject\" size=\"70\"></td>");
    print("</tr>\n"); 
    print("<tr>\n");
    print("<td class=\"td_style\" align='left' valign=\"top\">E-Mail Message:</td><td class='td_style' align='left'><textarea name=\"cus_message\" rows=\"20\" cols=\"70\"></textarea></td>");
    print("</tr>\n"); 
    print("<tr>\n");
    print("<td colspan='2' class='td_style' align='right'><input type='submit' name='submit_emails' class=\"btn_style\" value='Send!'></td>\n");
    print("</tr>\n");    
    print("</table>");
    
    print("</form>");
    
    // Deal with the submission
    if (isset($_POST['submit_emails']))
    {
      // Post vars
      $c_e = $_POST['cus_emails'];
      $c_s = $_POST['cus_subject']; 
      $c_m = $_POST['cus_message']; 
      
      // Mass or single email
      if ($c_e == 'email_all')
      {
        // Mass email
        
        while ()
        {
        
        }
   
        } else {   
         
        // Single email
       
        $to = $c_e;
        $subject = $c_s;
        $from = "[email protected]";
      $body = "<h3>Newsletter from firstchoicepharmacy.co.uk</h3>";
        $body .="<br /><br />";
        $body .="$c_m<br /><br />";
        $body .="Regards <br /><a href=\"http://www.firstchoicepharmacy.co.uk\">http://www.firstchoicepharmacy.co.uk</a>";
        $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";  
        $headers = "From: firstchoicepharmacy.co.uk<$from>\n"; 
        $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";  
     
        $mail = mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
      
        // Success
        if ($mail)
        {
          print("<br /><span class=\"mail_ok\"><img src=\"images/tick.png\"> You have successfully emailed [<b>$to</b>]</span><br /><br /><br />");
        }
       
      }
    
    }
  
  break;
?>

 

not sure what to do with the while loop exactly lol

 

any help would be great

 

Graham

[DeanWhitehouse]

you put the emails into an array , and do a foreach loop