php mass mailer

[Possum]

Hi

 

I am trying to to get a contract.... This what I have to do..

 

I have uploaded a web page that I want to E-mail the contents of to subscribed customers. Their E-Mail addresses are in a MySql data base.

 

Is it possible to have this page Emailed to them.

 

I know I could send  link but that is not want the client wants.

 

I know I could also send the E-Mails from my computer.

 

I am trying to give the client freedom..

 

cheers Possum..

 

 

[cooldude832]

look up mail() on php.net

[Possum]

Ive downloaded the php file and am reading it..

 

thank you....

 

The mail() function allows you to send mail.

 

cheers Possum..

[Possum]

Mailing List How I see it So Far...

 

 

AIM

I wish to  create a mailing list script. So I can mail to subscribed people an E-Mail with graphics. The graphics may or may not be links to graphic on a web server.

 

REQUIREMENTS

Data base of E-Mail addresses, names, other important info

Template of E-Mail to be sent.

 

WHAT I KNOW SO FAR

I need to use the The mail() function.

 

There are 4 fields in the  mail() function. (Is the Right?)

 

Example

mail($to,"Comments From Your Site",$message,"From: $email\n");

 

• $to
  
• "Comments From Your Site",
  
• $message
  
• "From: $email\n";
   
  

 

Question

Can the $message field include and post graphics.

 

As I am a Newbie this will be a big project for me. I hope how I am doing this on the phpfreaks forums is OK with everyone..

[corbin]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

With something like example 4, you could use <img src="" />....  Of course some email clients block emails from some addresses.....

 

Oh, it's also worth noting this quote:

 

Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.

For the sending of large amounts of email, see the » PEAR::Mail, and » PEAR::Mail_Queue packages.

[Possum]

Thank you

 

I see this is a larger project than I realize. I will be spending time on the pear site I think

 

cheers Possum...

[play_]

 

Can the $message field include and post graphics.

 

Yes. You will also need headers to be able to include images. (make sure you use absolut paths).

 

You can find the html headers in the link corbin posted

[cooldude832]

if its a consistent mass mailer meanign the body is the same, why not just send it to your self and BCC everyone else?

[immortality]

hello i can help u in this prob..

look

1-u have a table that contains all the emails of ur users that's true;

2- u have to create another table let's call it content_tbl and this tabel has just one column and one field called content_msg has a longtext as type.

3-when u make ur design u have to upload it to ur website to be online.

4-in the form of ur massmail(newsletter) u have to use like this editor(html editor: u can find it throught this link http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/openwysiwyg/index.htm) .

5- when u want to send the design u made.open the design online where u upload it and select it all and copy it and then go to ur editor u have made and paste it there.All the design will appear normally.

6-when u click on the send button ur php script have to do :

6.1-post the content of the editor and insert it into content_tbl.content_msg then in the same script read it from the table content_tbl and put it in the variable $message and then make a loop to send it to all ur clients

mail function will look like this :

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers)

 

and dont forget the header of the mail function is html like this :

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'From:  <'.$from.'>' . "\r\n";

try it . it really works properly.

[Possum]

Thx Everyone....for your advice..

 

Cheers Possum

[Possum]

Hi

 

I also found http://www.phplist.com/ which seems very promising as well.

 

Cheers Possum