DarkPrince2005 Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I am trying to set up a mailing list by writing the addresses to a txt file. But, i am having trouble thinking of how i could send out the mass newsletter to all of the email addresses in the file. here is the code that i am using to write to the txt file <?php $filename = 'test.txt'; $somecontent = "$_POST[email]\n"; if (is_writable($filename)) { if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) { echo "Cannot open file ($filename)"; exit; } if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) { echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)"; exit; } echo "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)"; fclose($handle); } else { echo "The file $filename is not writable"; } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajivgonsalves Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 try this <?php $filename = 'test.txt'; $arrEmails = file($filename); for ($i=0;$i<count($arrEmails);$i++) { mail($arrEmails[$i],..... } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Ok i came up with the following code <?php ini_set('SMTP','smtp.vodamail.co.za'); ini_set('send_from','jaco@geekforce.co.za'); $filename='test.txt'; $arremails=file($filename); for ($i=0;$i<=$arremails; $i++){ $subject = 'Test HTML email'; //create a boundary string. It must be unique //so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash $random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n $headers = "From: jaco@geekforce.co.za\r\nReply-To: jaco@geekforce.co.za"; //add boundary string and mime type specification $headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; //define the body of the message. ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering ?> --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello World!!! 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//send the email //copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer $message = ob_get_clean(); mail($arremails[$i], $subject, $message, $headers); }; ?> It sends the correct email to all the emails in the test.txt file but it then gives me the following errors: Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 554 Error: no valid recipients in C:\xampp\htdocs\Email\test.php on line 299 Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\Email\test.php on line 300 can anyone help me sothat it doesn't return errors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 Is there Anyone who can help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Are you hosting locally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 for now yes, but it'll be implemented into an existing website soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Before I do this, are you sure you wanna go with a text file? Using MySQL would be the way to go IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 yes i'm sure the text file will be generated by fields in an access database Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 The textfile has more than one purpose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 The textfile has more than one purpose What is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 it is also forr allot of other pages to write to, it is gonna be constantly writen to and from, meaning that it'll be constantly clear for security reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 it is also forr allot of other pages to write to, it is gonna be constantly writen to and from, meaning that it'll be constantly clear for security reasons You can have a lot of pages, servers or anything write to a MySQL DB, it can all be done remotely. I have kind of a pseudo code here, should work but I donno if it's what you're looking for. Do you have your mail settings set up in php.ini and or do you have an SMTP server running locally? Here's what I've come up with: <?php $file = fopen(file.txt,"r"); $addys=explode("\n" $file); fclose($file); $i = 0; For $i < count($addys) { mail($addys[$i],$subject,$message); $i++; } ?> that would do what you want I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 C:\xampp\htdocs\Email\test.php on line 299 I think it's the amount of reciepents. 299 is a bit ecessive for 1 email. break em into 20-25 reciepents per mail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Actually that was stupid, it can be done very simply. I forgot about foreach() >_< <?php $subject = $_POST['subject']; $message = $_POST['message']; $file = fopen(file.txt,"r"); $addys = explode("\n" $file); fclose($file); foreach ($addys as $addy) { mail($addy,$subject,$message); } ?> Set up your mail settings in php.ini and run a SMTP server. Or you could even set it up to use an outside email like gmail, just put the info in php.ini. No need to fuss with that within the PHP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 C:\xampp\htdocs\Email\test.php on line 299 I think it's the amount of reciepents. 299 is a bit ecessive for 1 email. break em into 20-25 reciepents per mail Using foreach() the emails are sent 1 at a time, they're not all sent at the same time. Thus this shouldn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 with the modified code it's still giving me an error Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 Bad address syntax in C:\xampp\htdocs\Email\New Folder (3)\test1.php on line 16 <?php ini_set('SMTP','smtp.vodamail.co.za'); ini_set('send_from','addy.co.za'); $random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n $headers = "From: addy.co.za\r\nReply-To: addy.co.za"; //add boundary string and mime type specification $headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $message = $_POST['message']; $file = fopen('test.txt',"r"); $addys = explode("\n", $file); fclose($file); foreach ($addys as $addy) { mail($addy,$subject,$message,$headers); } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 [quote author=DarkPrince2005 link=topic=178525.msg799195#msg799195 date=1201543414] ini_set('send_from','addy.co.za'); for some reason this dun look like a valid email address Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 it isn't i just replaced the adress with the word 'addy' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 okay than are u checking the text file for valid email addresses before passing them onto the mail function? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 The first thing I'd do is <?php Foreach($addys as $addy){ echo($addy);} ?> See what you come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 just the words "Resource id#3" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 use something like a preg_match statement to check for valid email addresses. /** Checks is the provided email address is formally valid * @param string $email email address to be checked * @return true if the email is valid, false otherwise */ function valid_email($email) { $regexp="/^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,}$/i"; if ( !preg_match($regexp, $email) ) { $_obweb->addErr("Email address is not correct\n"); return false; } return true; } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPrince2005 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 the emails are valid because i am using two of my own emails to test it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 <?php $subject=$_POST['subject']; $message=$_POST['message']; foreach( file( "test.txt" ) as $addy ) { mail($addy,$subject,$message) } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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