Emailing members of a forum

[tutu saint]

I have a registration form which sends confirmation email to the new user. i also want the same email to be sent to all registered users.

I have a view containing all registered members email and i need to inform all of them of the new user.

This is what i have so far and i need help in achieving this.

<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'youraddress@example.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email'; 
//define the message to be sent. Each line should be separated with \n
$message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my first mail."; 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster@example.com";
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message,$serder, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

[Rabbit]

You haven't said what problem you're running into.

[tutu saint]

I want to send a mail informing all registered members of the new members registration. I wan every registered member to receive the email informing them of a new user.

[Niheel]

Tutu, you have the code to send an email. Now you have to take the view that lists all your members assign it to an array and loop through it. You can create a function using the code and then call it or you could just place that code inside your loop.

If your view of all the registered members is in mysql then you could use the function mysqli_fetch_ar ray to to loop through your view.

More information with examples can be found at:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-array.php

[tutu saint]

Thanks Niheel,
I am still very new in php and can implement this but with time. can you help me with a sample code?

[Niheel]

Take a look at the following example on php.net

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-array.php#104189

$result = mysqli_query($link, "select * from user");
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) {
 // place code for email
 // make sure you assign the proper variables.

}

[computerfox]

I wouldn't suggest sending EVERYONE a copy because let's say 100 people join in one day.... I know I wouldn't want to get 100 PM's that a new member has joined. Maybe admins, but not normal users....

[Murat Bastas]

mail function is works like example:

mail('mail1@domain1.com,mail2@domain2.com,mail3@domain3.com', $subject, $message, $headers);

[tutu saint]

Niheel's link was very helpful and i was able to get the below codes working

  $allemails="select email from members";
  //mysql_select_db($database_dbCon, $dbCon);
  mysql_select_db($database,$db_connect) or die( "Unable to select database");
  $Result = mysql_query($allemails, $db_connect) or die(mysql_error());
 
//  $str="";
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($Result)){
  
   $to=$row[0];
$sender="<gospel@domain.com>";
// Your subject
$subject="Gospel Alert from domain.com";

// From
$header="from: Gospel Alart <news@domain.com>";

// Your message
$messages= "Your daily news alert  has returned the following alert for you today\r\n";
//$messages= "<a href=http://alart1.php</a><br>";
// send email
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$messages,$header);	
  //$str.="-".$sentmail;
  if($sentmail)
  echo("Mail sent to ".$row[0]." successfully<br/>");
  else
  echo("Mail not delivered to ".$row[0]." successfully<br/>");
  }

But these mail are not being delivered to my email. Please what could be the cause

[Murat Bastas]

you did start new topic, i did answer in your new topic