An email System

[airportmarc]

Hello all,

 

I am looking at the best way to implement an email system.  I have a class that can email the person, but I have a lot of different messages that I might have to send.  I wanted to know if my line of thought was efficient. 

Would it be a good idea to have a class that had all the possible email messages in it, and I would send it a key word to retrieve the proper message. Then if I had to email 100-300 people, would I create the class so that each instance of the class would send 1 email to a person, then destroy the class create a new one, etc...  Or would it be better to send the class the list of people the Email should be sent to, and then have the looping occur within the class? 

 

Any ideas or suggestions would be great. 

 

Thanks All

 

[ignace]

It would be best if your class resembles the e-mail. Then add the people you wish to e-mail to the "to:" field (comma separated) Something like:

 

class Email {
  private $to, $subject, $message, $headers, $parameters;
  
  public function __construct($from, $subject, $message) {
    $this->subject = $subject;
    $this->message = $message;
    $this->addHeader('From', $from);
    $this->addHeader('Return-Path', $from);
    $this->addHeader('Reply-To', $from);
  }
  
  public function addTo($to) {
    $this->to[] = $to;
  }
  
  public function addHeader($name, $value) {
    $this->headers[] = "$name: $value";
  }
  
  public function send() {
    $to = implode(',', $this->to);
    $headers = implode("\r\n", $this->headers);
    $message = wordwrap($this->message, 70);
    $message = str_replace("\n.", "\n..", $message);
    return mail($to, $this->subject, $message, $headers, $this->parameters);
  }
}

 

Use as:

 

$mail = new Mail('youremail@somewhere.com', 'Hello World', 'Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet consectuer adipiscing elit');
$to = file('emails.txt', FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES | FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
foreach ($to as $email) $mail->addTo($email);
if ($mail->send()) {
  //send
}

[khr2003]

or use phpmailer

http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=examples