[SOLVED] [help] teach me how to send mail through email()

[samoi]

hello guys,

 

I have a database, and it contains users with emails and other stuff.

 

I need to send them emails by the updates in my site, can I?

 

I don't want to send them one by one, I want to send them all in once!

 

should I use something like,

 

<?php
$users = "SELECT email FROM tableusers";
$SQL_users = mysql_query($users);

$send = mail($users, "subject", "email message");

if ($send) {
    while ($me = mysql_fetch_assoc($send)) {
        echo $me['username'];
        echo "-----";
        echo $me['email'];
        echo "---- Has been contacted";
    }
} else {
    echo "Failed";
}

?>

 

 

I just made up this code right now, to be able to delevier my question !

 

Thank you in advance !

[Maq]

Why not loop through a select statement?

 

$users = "SELECT email FROM tableusers";
$SQL_users = mysql_query($users);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($SQL_users)) {
mail({$row['email']}, "subject" , "email message");
}

 

[rtadams89]

The "$users" variable needs to be a comma separate list of email addresses. Such as "a@a.com, b@b.com, c@c.com".

 

Here is the function I use to retrieve email addresses from my database and turn them into a coma separated list:

 

function calendar_mail()
{
//Database connection
$conn = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS) or die('Error connecting to mysql');
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME);

$sql = 'SELECT user_email FROM phpbb_users WHERE user_notify_calendar="1" AND user_email!=""';
$result = mysql_query($sql);

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
$recepients = $recepients.$row['user_email'] . ", ";
}
$recepients = rtrim($recepients, " ,");
return $recepients;
}

 

The examples on the php website are also very helpful: http://us.php.net/function.mail

[waynewex]

Do your users want you to basically give out their emal addresses to other users?

[samoi]

Why not loop through a select statement?

 

$users = "SELECT email FROM tableusers";
$SQL_users = mysql_query($users);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($SQL_users)) {
mail({$row['email']}, "subject" , "email message");
}

 

 

thank you for your help, I found a tutorial !

[samoi]

The "$users" variable needs to be a comma separate list of email addresses. Such as "a@a.com, b@b.com, c@c.com".

 

Here is the function I use to retrieve email addresses from my database and turn them into a coma separated list:

 

function calendar_mail()
{
//Database connection
$conn = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS) or die('Error connecting to mysql');
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME);

$sql = 'SELECT user_email FROM phpbb_users WHERE user_notify_calendar="1" AND user_email!=""';
$result = mysql_query($sql);

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
$recepients = $recepients.$row['user_email'] . ", ";
}
$recepients = rtrim($recepients, " ,");
return $recepients;
}

 

The examples on the php website are also very helpful: http://us.php.net/function.mail

 

 

Thank you too !

[samoi]

Do your users want you to basically give out their emal addresses to other users?

 

Of course NO !!

 

What kind of question is this??

 

Is there any problem using this script!? will it shows other users the email list of users!???