PHP sendmail

[chrisleon]

I have some code that looks like this:
<?php

$totalnumberofinputs = 26;
$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "[e-mail]";

for($i=1; $i<=$totalnumberofinputs; $i++) {
${"sum".$i} = ${"allow".$i} - "${"amount".$i}";

if (${"amount".$i} <= ${"allow".$i}){
${"sum".$i} = 0;}
else{
${"sum".$i} = ${"allow".$i} - "${"amount".$i}";
}

print ("<tr align=\"middle\">\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"emp".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"200\">${"name".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"allow".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"amount".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"sum".$i}</td>\n".
"</tr>\n");

}

I would like to mail this code to selected individuals, but, if I put the mail(); in the for statement, it sends a the same mail 26 times, but if I put it outside the for statement, I can not get the values for $i to increment in the mail unfortunately. So, I know that in perl, you can OPEN MAIL, outside a for, and then call MAIL ${"emp".$i} inside the for, and close the mail outside the for. I know I am being redundant, but does php offer something similar? please help, I am extremely new at this.

thanx

[Anon]

If you want 1 email with all of your data in it to be sent then you need to build the body of your email into a variable and pass that to the mail() function after your for loop.

If you want to send each piece of your data (1 loop) in a separate email then you need to put the mail() function inside your loop and pass it the information that you have in your print line as the body.

If you want to send each piece of your data to different people then the mail() function needs to be insider your loop, and you need to change the $to variable inside the loop before you call mail().

The mail function in PHP is like the send button on your mail reader. Once you call it, it sends the email based on the data you passed into it. So you don't open it up and then add information to it, then close it to have it send. You build your email completely and then pass it to mail() and it's gone.

[chrisleon]

I really appreciate your help, but I think I am a little confused on how I would code that. With the code that I have in place, how would I build a variable that contains all the data in the for loop statement?

[Anon]

$totalnumberofinputs = 26;
$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "[e-mail]";
<b>$body = ""; /Initialize the variable to store the email</b>

for($i=1; $i<=$totalnumberofinputs; $i++) {
${"sum".$i} = ${"allow".$i} - "${"amount".$i}";

if (${"amount".$i} <= ${"allow".$i}){
${"sum".$i} = 0;}
else{
${"sum".$i} = ${"allow".$i} - "${"amount".$i}";
}
<b>
$body .= "<tr align=\"middle\">\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"emp".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"200\">${"name".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"allow".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"amount".$i}</td>\n".
"<td width=\"100\">${"sum".$i}</td>\n".
"</tr>\n\n"; // Put the email together </b>

}
<b>
mail($to, "Generated Email", $body); // send the email </b>

[Anon]

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