Help with Mass Email program

1jetsam · #1 (**permalink**) 02-18-05, 10:50 PM

I am given 30 minutes to make a program for a friend (he needs it quickly), and I'm having trouble with the code.

Basically he wants to send emails, but he wants only one email field, and each email to be separated by a space.

This is what I have so far:
index.php

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">



<html>

<head>

    <title>Mass Emails</title>

</head>



<body>

<form action="send.php" method="post">

Send mass emails:<br>

Send to: <input name="to" type="text" value="" style="width:500"><br>

# of Emails: <input name="number" type="text" value="" style="width:500"><br>

From: <input name="from" type="text" value=""  style="width:500"><br>

Subject: <input name="subject" type="text" value="" style="width:500"><br>

Message: <textarea name="message" rows= cols=  style="width:500"></textarea><br>

<input type="submit" value="Send Emails">

</form>



</body>

</html>

send.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$from = $_POST['from'];

$subject = $_POST["subject"];

$message = $_POST["message"];

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

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

$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";

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

$c = 0;

$emailto = $_POST['to'];

for ($k=0; $k<=count($emailto)-1; $k++) {

    $emailto = explode(" ",$emailto[$k]);

}

while($c<=$_POST['number']) {

$mailsent = mail($emailto[$c], $subject, $message, $headers);

}

?>

The problem is the send page won't load. I think it is in a loophole and can't load the send.php page.

Can someone please help me with this? Any help would be nice, and the faster the better.

wizkid · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-05, 12:46 AM

You have an infinite loop on your while statement. You dont have anything to increment the value of the variable $c.

1jetsam · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-05, 12:57 AM

I actually fixed that part. But there is a problem with the "For" Statement that I have.

index.php

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">



<html>

<head>

    <title>Mass Emails</title>

</head>



<body>

<form action="send.php" method="post">

Send mass emails:<br>

Send to: <input name="to" type="text" value="" style="width:500"><br>

# of Emails: <input name="number" type="text" value="" style="width:500"><br>

From: <input name="from" type="text" value=""  style="width:500"><br>

Subject: <input name="subject" type="text" value="" style="width:500"><br>

Message: <textarea name="message" rows= cols=  style="width:500"></textarea><br>

<input type="submit" value="Send Emails">

</form>



</body>

</html>

send.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$from = $_POST['from'];

$subject = $_POST["subject"];

$message = $_POST["message"];

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

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

$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";

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

$c = 1;

$emailto = $_POST['to'];

for ($k=0; $k<=count($emailto)-1; $k++) {

    $emailto = explode(" ",$emailto[$k]);

}

while($c<=$_POST['number']) {

$mailsent = mail($emailto[$c], $subject, $message, $headers);

echo $emailto[$c]. "<br>";

if ($mailsent) {

  echo "Sent.<br>";

} else {

  echo "Failed.<br>";

}

$c++;

}

echo "<br>Done!";

?>

wizkid · #4 (**permalink**) 02-19-05, 02:11 AM

i dont have the time to try this but i guess this would solve it:

PHP Code:


			
$c = 0;

//email add are separated by single blank space

$emailto = explode(" ",$_POST['to']);

while($c<count($emailto)) {

  mail($emailto[$c], $subject, $message, $headers); 

  $c++; 

}

1jetsam · #5 (**permalink**) 02-19-05, 12:04 PM

I tried that and it didn't work.
Thanks though.

NeverMind · #6 (**permalink**) 02-19-05, 12:48 PM

why would you do 2 loops ?
one is enough!

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$from = $_POST['from'];

$subject = $_POST["subject"];

$message = $_POST["message"];

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

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

$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";

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



$emailto = explode(' ', trim($_POST['to']) );



for ($k=0; $k<count($emailto); $k++) {



    $mailsent = mail($emailto[$k], $subject, $message, $headers);



    echo $emailto[$k]. '<br>';



    if ($mailsent)

       echo 'Sent.<br>';

    else

        echo 'Failed.<br>';

}



echo "<br>Done!";

?>

try this one instead!
I assumed that $_POST['to'] contains the email addresses with space seperating each of them, made the explode() and then mailed each one..

1jetsam · #7 (**permalink**) 02-19-05, 02:23 PM

Thanks! It works great!