Hi,

I was creating this little program to help me out sending emails but there is a issue i can't solve.

Convert a resource to a string
$file returns Resource id #3 instead of the value of the string

Here is a code example:

<?php
$file = fopen("emails.txt","r");

while(! feof($file))
  {
  mail($file, 'Thanks for joining!', Hi\nWe are glad to see you onboard\n\nPrivateloader);
  echo fgets($file). " - just received a email.<br>";
  }

fclose($file);
?>

Thanks

    You're using fgets() to get a string from the file on the very next line.
    If you want to use it as an address and echo it then you'd want to read it into a variable and use the variable.

      4 days later

      Ok,

      Adding this line fixes the issue, which is basically what you just said.

      $email = fgets($file);
      mail($email, 'Thanks for joining!', Hi\nWe are glad to see you onboard\n\nPrivateloader);

      Thanks

        adding this line fixes the issue

        Yes it does. Here's why, if the answer is of any value to anyone.

        fopen() "binds a named resource, specified by filename, to a stream". If you read further down that page to the "Return Value" section, you'll note that fopen "Returns a file pointer resource on success, or FALSE on error."

        mail() expects an address (string $to) in argument one. If you put your original $file (which is a named resource) there, you're putting a resource where a string is expected, and that's the reason for the error about conversion (unless the resources returns FALSE, in which case you'd probably get a slightly different error).

        fgets() "gets (a) line from file pointer", so using it before the mail() call provides mail with a line from the file, which is a string, which therefore works because mail() is looking for a string.

        There are a few ways to skin this cat. In your particular case, I'd probably have used file() to put my file_contents into an array instead:

        $emails = file('emails.txt');

foreach ($emails as $to) {

    mail($to, 'Thanks for joining!', Hi\nWe are glad to see you onboard\n\nPrivateloader);
    echo "$to  - just received a email.<br>";
}

        I'd also recommend looking at file_get_contents() and file_put_contents() also, as they magically do most of the heavy fopen/fgets/fputs/fclose stuff for you.

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