Email question???

kpowning

Is this possible?

I have a .php file called newsletter.php it has a form that when submitted it sends an email to all members in the database subscribed to my newsletter. What I'm looking for is someway to either pop open a new window and show the list of emails being sent out while they are being sent and once completed have it echo finished and then the window closes and the newsletter.php page is refreshed to another page. Any ideas?

michaewlewis

are you looking for a way to show the progress in real time, then?
Perhaps if newsletter.php created a list in a txt file, you might be able to use Javascript to check the contents of that file for any changes, and then display that. I'm not sure if this would work, but I sure would try it.
I assume you would have to do a lot of opening and closing of that txt file in your php to make this work, and it might be a little slow, but who knows.
let me know if you try it and what happens!

gammaster

Hi!
Here is a possible solution. Its not tested.. 🙂

The file 'sendNewsletter.php':

$mail = trim($_GET['mail']);

// Chech for legal format.
if(!myIsMail($mail)) die();

// Check if this address realy should have a newsletter.
if(!myIsInDatabase($mail)) die();

/*
Run your mailsending stuff.
*/

if($mailWasSendt)
	echo 'SUCCESS';

The file with javascript:

<?php
// newsletter.php
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>newsletter sender</title>
<script language="javascript">
<?php
// Connect database ang get the mailaddresses.
$mailaddresse = myDbGetAddresses();

// Start to make a string for a javascript array.
$tmpStr = '[';

foreach($mailaddresse as $address)
	$tmpStr.= "'$address',";

// Removes last ','
$tmpStr = rtrim($tmpStr, ',');

$tmpStr.= ']';

// Print the addresses as a javascript array.
echo "var addresses = $tmpStr;\n";
?>
//----------------------------------------------------------
function getRequestObject()
{
   if(window.XMLHttpRequest) {
      try {requestObj = new window.XMLHttpRequest;}
      catch(e) {requestObj = false;}
      }
   else if(window.ActiveXObject) {

  axObj = ['Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0',
           'Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0',
           'Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0',
           'Msxml2.XMLHTTP',
           'Microsoft.XMLHTTP'];

  axObjCount = axObj.length;

  for(var i = 0; i < axObjCount; i++) {
     try {requestObj = new ActiveXObject(axObj[i]);}
     catch(e) {requestObj = false;}
     if(typeof requestObj == 'object')
        break;
     }
  }
   else
      requestObj = false;

   return requestObj;
}
//----------------------------------------------------------

   var scriptAddress = 'http://wwww.myDomain.com/sendNewsletter.php';
   var mailCounter   = 0;
   var requestObj    = false;

function sendMail()
{
   // If all are sendt.
   if(mailCounter > addresses.length - 1)
      return;

   requestObj = getRequestObject();

   if(requestObj === false) {
      alert('Sorry but you need to change browser.');
      return;
      }

   adddress = addresses[mailCounter];

   url = scriptAddress + '?mail=' + adddress;

   requestObj.onreadystatechange = stateChange;
   requestObj.open("GET", url, true);
   requestObj.send("");


}
//----------------------------------------------------------
function stateChange()
{
   if(requestObj.readyState == 4) {
      if(requestObj.status == 200) {

     respons = requestObj.responseText;

		// Trim the string
		respons = respons.replace(/^\s*(\S*(\s+\S+)*)\s*$/, "$1");

     if(respons == 'SUCCESS') {
        div = document.getElementById('listLayer');
        div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML + '<br>' + addresses[mailCounter];
        mailCounter++;
        }
  else
     alert('There was some problems...');
     }
  }
}
//----------------------------------------------------------
</script>
</head>
<body>
Her is your form.<br>

<form action="" method="post" onsubmit="sendMail();return false;">

</form>
<div id="listLayer">

</div>
<body>
</html>

kpowning

seems like the last reponse is more of a counter, no? If so can i echo out the email addresses from my database as it emails them in a new window and once completed, close this window? THANKS FOR THE REPLIES... 🙂