Hi all,

I'm trying to send emails to various people using a .php file run with a crontab. I'm having some PHP issues though.

My code is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Email</title>
</head>

<body>
    <?php # AUTOMATICALLY SENDS A REPORT TO EACH TEAM:

    // Connect to the db:
    require_once('../Master.php');

    ########################################################################################################

    // Choose the subject of the report to be sent:
    $reportname = "Test";

    // Headers required to send html by email:
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

    // Choose who the report is being sent by:
    $headers .= "From: test@thisemail.com" . "\r\n";

    $TeamID = array();

    // Create a query to select only the TeamIDs:
    $q = "SELECT TeamID FROM Master_Team";

    // Run the query:
    $r = @mysqli_query($Master, $q);

    // Fill the $TeamID array:
    for($i = 0; $row = mysqli_fetch_array($r); $i++ )
    {
            $TeamID[i] = $row;
    }

    mysqli_free_result($r);

    // Get the size of the $TeamID array:
    $num = sizeof($TeamID);

    // Loop through the $TeamID array to create the report for each one and send the email:
    for($i = 0; $i != 1; $i++)                                  // ------------------------------------------------------ Change "i != 1" to "i != $num"!!!
    {
        // Create a query to select the Team Name for the subject:
        $q = "SELECT TeamName FROM Master_Team WHERE TeamID = \"{TeamID[i]}\"";

        // Run the query:
        $r = @mysqli_query($Master, $q);

        $subject = "mysqli_fetch_array($r) . ' ' . $reportname";

        mysqli_free_result($r);

        ################################################################################################
        /*
        // Create a query to get the TeamEMail:
        $q = "SELECT TeamEMail FROM Master_Team WHERE TeamID = \"{$TeamID[i]}\"";

        // Run the query:
        $r = @mysqli_query($Master, $q);

        // Assign the email to $to:
        $to = "mysqli_fetch_array($r)";

        mysqli_free_result($r);
        */
        $to = "tinnin@example.co.uk";                          // --------------------------------------------------------- Test Email!!!
        ################################################################################################

        // Create a query to generate the report:         ----------------------------------------------- EG: Player Goals for previous month
        $q = "SELECT PlayerID, COUNT(*) AS Goals
                FROM Master
                WHERE TeamID = \"{TeamID[i]}\"
                AND (
                    MONTH(GoalDate)= MONTH(SUBDATE(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH)) 
                    AND 
                    YEAR(GoalDate)= YEAR(SUBDATE(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH))
                    )
                GROUP BY PlayerID
                ORDER BY Goals DESC";

        // Run the query:
        $r = @mysqli_query($Master, $q);

        // If the query ran successfully create the email body in html/php:
        if($r)
        {
        $body = '<html>
                    <head>
                        <title><?php echo $reportname; ?></title>
                    </head>
                    <body>
                    <?php

                        // Make the table headers:
                        echo \'<table align="center" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" width="100">
                                <tr>
                                    <td align="left"><b>Player Name<b></td>
                                    <td align="left"><b>Number of Goals<b></td>
                                </tr>\';

                        // Fetch the records for the report:
                        while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($r, MYSQLI_ASSOC))
                        {
                            echo \'<tr>
                                    <td align="left">\' .$row[\'PlayerID\']. \'</td>
                                    <td align="left">\' .$row[\'Goals\']. \'</td>
                                  </tr>\';
                        }

                        // Close the table:
                        echo \'</table>\';

                    ?>
                    </body>
                </html>';

        ################################################################################################

            // Use the mail function to send the emails:
            mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
        }

        mysqli_free_result($r);
    }

    ?>
</body>

</html>

which is producing these errors:

Warning: mysqli_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in X on line 35

Warning: mysqli_free_result() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in X on line 40

Warning: mysqli_free_result() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in X on line 56

Warning: mysqli_free_result() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in X on line 128

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks for any suggestions

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Member Avatar for diafol

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

You don't seem to be getting a result from the query. Also this later on

$subject = "mysqli_fetch_array($r) . ' ' . $reportname";

What are you trying to get with that?

$q = "SELECT TeamName FROM Master_Team WHERE TeamID = \"{TeamID[i]}\"";

Should be:

$q = "SELECT TeamName FROM Master_Team WHERE TeamID = '{$TeamID[$i]}'";

Apart from that add error checking to your queries, so you'll have an indication of what's wrong.

diafol: With this I am trying to concatenate the Team Name with the Report Name. EG "Random Rovers Goal Report".

pritaeas: Thanks. Missed that one :). I'll check the queries then.

Thanks guys.

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