html emails and fopen

fumanshu

This is an interesting one - probabely quite obvious to the experienced but...

I have a text file which contains a list of email addresses (email.txt)

I want to send an email to each one of the addresses seperately,

I'm using the following code:

// ** Get the names from the text file *

$fp = fopen("email.txt","r");

while (!feof($fp))
{
$to = fgets($fp, 100);

// ** Email sending details here... **

$msg = "<html><head><title><body>...etc...</html>";

$mailheaders = "From: John Smith <john@smith.com>\n";

$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: sally@smith.com\n";

$mailheaders .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";

$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";

// ** now the actual mail function **

mail($to, 'Subject', $msg, $mailheaders);

echo "E-Mail sent to $to<br>";

}

fclose($fp);

It echos the correct number of email addreses correctly and even sends the last email address on the list the correct HTML email, however, all the others get sent an email but with the actual mailheaders as part of the text. The email starts with:

Subject: Subject
From: John Smith<john@smith.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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any ideas????

toma42

Use the Pear:Mail class. It is distrubuted with the PHP install. If you don't want to use that class, at least read the code to compare it to what you're doing to find your problems.

fumanshu

urm..perhaps I should've posted this in the newbies section....

The idea was to use what I've currently got as it's so close to working, I was only wandering whether there were any obvious errors in my code...

Thanks anyway - I'll have a look at the Pear:Mail class....

MrAlaska

Since the last one is sent correctly, I would assume your problem lies in the delimiters somehow. If you are using a windows based system, for instance, you are adding an \r\n to all but the last record and that must be confusing the mail() parameters.

Try adding:
$to=trim($to);

If you are using any additional delimiters, you will need to get rid of them too. For instance, if your addresses have commas:
$to=trim(str_replace(",","",$to));

fumanshu

YOU'RE-THE-MAN!!!

Thank you. Just needed a trim.....

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