Mail list repetative problem problem...

byte_me

Bit of a pain this one, been on it 3 days now.

I have a PHP maillist developed by my own fair hand. It works BUT
I wish to personalise the email just a little more. Here is the bit that gets me..............

// For each subscriber line...
foreach($subscribers as $subscriber) {
// split subscriber info into array
$info = explode('|', $subscriber);

    // Assign array to meaningful variable name
    $name = $info[0]; $myname = $info[0];
    $email = $info[1];
  $company = $info[2];

$joined = $info[3];

    // Build to address including subscriber name
    $mailTo = "$name <$email>";

$mailBody2 =  $mailBody;
  $mailBody = "Dear {$myname}, \n".$mailBody2;

$mailSubject = stripslashes($mailSubject);
$mailBody = stripslashes($mailBody);
// Send email to
mail($mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody, "From: " . $mailFrom);
$myname = null;
}

print "Email sent to all subscribers";

}

What happens is email 1 goes fine
Dear Fred,
blah blah

email 2
Dear Betty,
Dear Fred,
blah blah

email 3
Dear Barney,
Dear Betty,
Dear Fred,
blah blah

You get the picture. But I can't see logically why it would from above code.

dalecosp

Here lies the rub:

$mailBody2 = $mailBody; 
$mailBody = "Dear {$myname}, \n".$mailBody2;

HTH,

vornn

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$mailBody2 = $mailBody;
$mailBody = "Dear {$myname}, \n".$mailBody2;

1st time round:

$mailbody "dear bob"
$mailbody2 ""

2nd time round:

$mailbody "dear Sue"
$mailbody2 "dear bob"

3rd time round:

$mailbody "dear Mike"
$mailbody2 "dear bob\ndear Sue"

Do you see it yet?

All you need at the top of the section is:

$mailbody2 = ""

Should work...

🙂

dalecosp

$mailBody2 = ""; 
$mailBody2 = "Dear {$myname}, \n".$mailBody;

would be preferable, I think.

But please don't smash me, vornn!! 🙂

byte_me

Thanks All,

dalecosp was correct, it works a treat now, some how the heat got to my logic and fried the brains.

A question of mind over matter or something!

Thanks to all of you I now have a passworded multiple mail list with great marketing potential with the nicities of an individually addressed email without opening subscribers up to spam.

It took me 5 days to write, the last 3 on just this little problem.

Thank you very much.

Byte Me