Mail: Multiple tos

How could you use the mail function to send to more than one to, for the purpose of this, let's use this example from the PHP Manual: <?PHP
mail("nobody@example.com", "the subject", $message,
"From: webmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

function mailStuff($email) {
mail($email, "the subject", $message,
"From: webmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
}


Then somewhere else...

$addresses = array("john@dot.com","doe@john.com","mary@smith.com");
for($i=0;$i<count($addresses);$i++) {
mailStuff($addresses[$i]);
}

You don't need to repeatedly invoke the mail command for each recipient. You just need to seperate the addresses with a comma just like it shows in the PHP manual



"To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>\r\n";

You don't need to repeatedly invoke the mail command for each recipient. You just need to seperate the addresses with a comma just like it shows in the PHP manual



"To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>\r\n";



Hail Spookster ;)

And you can still use some of bcarl's suggestion by defining the addresses elsewhere and storing them in just a string variable instead of an array.



$addresses = "To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>\r\n";

mail($addresses, "the subject", $message,
"From: webmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

OK, I'm having problems with: <?php
/* recipients */
$db = 'geoffers_newsletter';
$db_user = 'dunnomy';
$db_pass = 'dunnomypass';

mysql_connect(localhost,$db_user,$db_pass);
@mysql_select_db($db) or die( "Unable to select database");
$query="SELECT email FROM email";
$result=mysql_query($query);

$num=mysql_numrows($result);

mysql_close();

$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {

$to=mysql_result($result,$i,"email");

++$i;
}

/* subject */
$subject = 'test';

/* message */
$message = 'test';

/* additional headers */
$headers .= "From: Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@geoffers.uni.cc>\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Shouldnt...

$num=mysql_numrows($result);

... be ...

$num=mysql_num_rows($result);

The reason I would call a function and mail individually is so the recipients do not get all the other email addresses. Some people get freaky about that.

But both methods work just fine.

Id have to agree with bcarl, becuase I wouldnt want many people getting my email address...

However, I also agree that it is not always suitable to make multiple calls to mail(), which would take a long time.

Going more advanced now, you can get hold of SMTP mail scripts... Its much more complex but for large mail sending is much faster. But for sending 2 or 3 emails on a page, shouldnt be required.

Missing...

I've actually been looking for something like that, can you point me to some resources?

B

Maybe this will be of some use (I haven't had a look over properly):

http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=smtp+mail&catid=all

How could I put in a , if there was another address?

to send all the mail in 1 go without sharing the email address could you not just send the mail as a BCC because then you cannot see all the other mail addresses it has been sent to

not sure how you would do it with the mail feature though - anyone, does it work?

sending 1 mail with all receivers in bcc is the way to go.

mail() will open a new socket + close it for eacht iterantion if you send them inside a loop, so it will be 'rather slow'. From the crashtests i did a while back, i found that you can easely send out 500 mails before your script times out, but that the time it took to get a chunk of 15 mails out drastically increased with each chunk (i sent out 30 chunks of 15 mails and included the resuls of a timerfunction in the message.)

to send them as bcc's, all you need to do is add them in the header-atribute as shown in example 4 of http://www.php.net/function.mail