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Join Date: Nov 2006

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Mailing to an array

Aug 5th, 2007

I'm trying to email to an array of subscribers to a weekly newsletter. Whenever I try though, I get an error "Bad parameters to function mail()". Heres the loop I'm using to mail:

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$x = 0;
$y = 1;
while ($x <= $y)
{
    mail($names[$x], "Hey", "Whats up?");
    $x++;
}
$x = 0;
$y = 1;
while ($x <= $y)
{
    mail($names[$x], "Hey", "Whats up?");
    $x++;
}

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by Firestone : Aug 5th, 2007 at 5:47 pm.

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Re: Mailing to an array

Aug 5th, 2007

Check the array. While function works fine to me. I have done it like this:

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	$names[] = 'name1@host.tld';
	$names[] = 'name2@host.tld';
	$names[] = 'name3@host.tld';
 
	$x = 0;
	$y = 2;
	while ($x <= $y)
	{
	    mail($names[$x], "hey", "whats up?");
	    $x++;
	}
	$names[] = 'name1@host.tld';
	$names[] = 'name2@host.tld';
	$names[] = 'name3@host.tld';
	
	$x = 0;
	$y = 2;
	while ($x <= $y)
	{
	    mail($names[$x], "hey", "whats up?");
	    $x++;
	}

Bye.

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Re: Mailing to an array

Aug 6th, 2007

If you use foreach() you won't even need to bother with the indexing.

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<?php
$list[] = "first";
$list[] = "second";
$list[] = "third";
 
foreach ($list as $entry){
  mail($entry, "Hey", "Whats up?");
}
?>
<?php
$list[] = "first";
$list[] = "second";
$list[] = "third";

foreach ($list as $entry){
  mail($entry, "Hey", "Whats up?");
}
?>

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Re: Mailing to an array

Aug 6th, 2007

I populated the array with a loop, that read the names from a text file. I tried doing it manually, and it worked, but I cant do it that way for what I'm doing. @Ezzaral: What is foreach()? Would that help?

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There are 10 types of people in the world,
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