i am getting a 504 gateway timeout error from my server when using phpmyadmin to send out indivudual emails to a list of about 1200 users
i need the emails to go out to the users one by one as i do not want expose any of the email addresses in the list to any other users
it seems to work well when i am sending out to a small list, but when i want to send to a large list i am getting this error
what would be the best way to send out one email, reset the request and send out the next email in the list as it goes through the loop?
Also i'd like to see message sent to [name] each time the email goes out
heres my php
require('connection.inc.php');
include ("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
include ("PHPMailer/class.smtp.php");
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
$message = $_POST['message'];
$UeMail = uniqid();
$UDomain = uniqid();
$domain = '#zzz.org';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->Host = 'zzz.zzz.com';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true; // SMTP connection will not close after each email sent, reduces SMTP overhead
$mail->Username = 'zzz#zzz.com';
$mail->Password = 'zzz';
$mail->setFrom('zzz' . $UeMail . $domain);
$mail->addReplyTo('zzz#zzz.com');
$mail->WordWrap = 9999; // set word wrap
// I ADDED THIS TO BYPASS SSL ERRORS
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
// SET ENVOIRMENT #1 (DONT FORGET TO SET #2)
// LIVE ENVIORMENT EMAIL TO SMS
$result = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT name, mob_email FROM `user` WHERE mob_email<>''");
// TEST ENVIORMENT
// $result = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT email, name FROM user_test WHERE email<>''");
foreach($result as $row) {
set_time_limit(60);
$mail->Body = $message; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = $message; //Text Body
// SET ENVOIRMENT #2
// LIVE ENVIORMENT EMAIL TO SMS
$mail->addAddress($row['mob_email'], $row['name']);
// TEST ENVIORMENT
// $mail->addAddress($row['email'], $row['name']);
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error (" . str_replace("#", "#", $row["email"]) . ') ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '<br />';
break; //Abandon sending
}
else {
echo "Message sent to :" . $row['name'] . ' (' . str_replace("#", "#", $row['email']) . ')<br />';
// Mark it as sent in the DB (NOT USING THIS RIGHT NOW)
/*
mysqli_query(
$mysql,
"UPDATE mailinglist SET sent = TRUE WHERE email = '" .
mysqli_real_escape_string($mysql, $row['email']) . "'"
);
*/
}
// Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop
$mail->clearAddresses();
$mail->clearAttachments();
}
}
and heres my html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30" maxlength="110"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
all code is in a single file (sendEmail.php)
I can see that you've based your code on the PHPMailer mailing list example (though it looks like you may have started with an old version, so check you're using the latest), and it looks basically correct.
However, sending that many messages on page load is never going to work reliably. You need to run this from cron so that it is not subject to such timeouts. There's also no point in the call to set_time_limit(60); that will not extend the overall timeout you're hitting.
Also never disable SSL certificate verification unless you exactly why you are doing so - fix it properly. The PHPMailer troubleshooting guide gives lots of info about how to check what's wrong.
Related
I'm using the example mailing list and trying to tailor it to work with my DB. The problem I'm having is it's only sending to one email from the list of users in the Table (the example table only has 5 users). The email is being sent to the last user listed in the table
//Passing `true` enables PHPMailer exceptions
//$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = '####';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true; //SMTP connection will not close after each email sent, reduces SMTP overhead
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS;
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = '###';
$mail->Password = '###';
$mail->setFrom('###', 'List manager');
$mail->addReplyTo('###', 'List manager');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Simple database mailing list test';
//Same body for all messages, so set this before the sending loop
//If you generate a different body for each recipient (e.g. you're using a templating system),
//set it inside the loop
$mail->msgHTML($body);
//msgHTML also sets AltBody, but if you want a custom one, set it afterwards
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!';
//Connect to the database and select the recipients from your mailing list that have not yet been sent to
//You'll need to alter this to match your database
$connection = mysqli_connect($server, $loginsql, $passsql, "database_name")
or die("Could not connect to database");
$result = mysqli_query($connection, 'SELECT user_login, user_email, db_prefix FROM userstest');
foreach ($result as $row) {
try {
$mail->addAddress($row['user_email'], $row['user_login']);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Invalid address skipped: ' . htmlspecialchars($row['user_email']) . '<br>';
continue;
}
try {
$mail->send();
echo 'Message sent to :' . htmlspecialchars($row['user_email']) . ' (' .
htmlspecialchars($row['user_email']) . ')<br>';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Mailer Error (' . htmlspecialchars($row['user_email']) . ') ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '<br>';
//Reset the connection to abort sending this message
//The loop will continue trying to send to the rest of the list
$mail->getSMTPInstance()->reset();
}
//Clear all addresses and attachments for the next iteration
$mail->clearAddresses();
$mail->clearAttachments();
}
All - thanks for the help. I actually figured it out. The email address for setFrom was not the same as the account that was sending it out so it wouldn't work sending out to external domains.
I have a database of over 12,000 users and I am trying to send an email to all of them, each with a specific information based on their information on the database. I have made this email to send when a cron runs on Sundays by 6am and I completed the feature last friday and it ran on sunday, i.e, Yesterday. Here is what happened.
1.) The email kept sending all day from 6am to 7pm
2.) By that time, it had sent only to 750 users
3.) After that it stopped completely for reasons I don't know
PS:
I am sending the emails using PHPMailer, with a template and I use a loop to loop over all users and perform calculations for each user, fill in the template with the information then send the email.
Below is a code snippet showing what I do...
foreach($users as $user){
// Construct the email template
$htmlContent = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../../templates/weekly_spending_template.html');
// Replace some place holders with user's custom information.
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$bars/', $bars, $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$labels/', $labels, $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$total/', $currency . ' ' . number_format($total, 0), $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$budget/', $currency . ' ' . number_format($budget, 0), $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$first_name/', ucfirst($user->first_name), $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$remark/', $remark, $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$percentage_difference/', $percentage_difference, $htmlContent);
$htmlContent = preg_replace('/\$others/', $others, $htmlContent);
try {
// Setup email parameters
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$subject = "Your weekly spending breakdown";
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->AddAddress($user->email, ucfirst($user->first_name) . ' ' . ucfirst($user->last_name));
$mail->Username = "mymail#example.com";
$mail->Password = "myPassW0rd";
$mail->SetFrom('mymail#example.com', 'Name');
$mail->AddReplyTo("mymail#example.com", "Name");
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $htmlContent;
$mail->isHTML(true);
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Message was not sent.\n";
echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . "\n";
} else {
echo "Message has been sent.\n";
}
} catch (\Exception $ex) {
echo $ex->getMessage();
}
}
Please, can anyone give me suggestions on how to make this process more efficient, faster or better options for achieving this goal? Thanks.
You might consider using swiftmailer (below link), as it has mostly everthing you want and is used in many products and frameworks, so you can be sure it's fairly stable.
https://swiftmailer.symfony.com/docs/sending.html#sending-emails-in-batch
And you can only send 500 mails/per day #20 mails/per hour
See: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2956491#sendinglimitsforrelay
Just separate them by comma, like
$email_to = "youremailaddress#yourdomain.com, emailtwo#yourdomain.com, John Doe <emailthree#example.com>"
For more details check this link:- PHP send mail to multiple email addresses
We have a site with a form that when submitted, does the following (via the code below);
Sends a test email to myself BEFORE INSERTING INTO MYSQL just so i know php mailer is working, which it always does in all my tests
Then inserts all the data from the form into MYSQL (This always works too)
Send another email via PHP Mailer with all the info they submitted. I want it in plain text (this works only about 80% of the time).
What's happening is, sometimes people submit and it does everything, but sometimes it only does steps 1 and 2. So sometimes, something seems to be breaking somewhere. I feel like it could be issues with certain punctuation, but not sure. Like in the $copy fields, people can enter whatever they want. Not sure if there are certain punctuations that could break the 2nd email process.
NOTE: Every time someone submits, it does take them to the request-success.php page. But it doesn't always send the email from Step 3.
If anyone sees areas of improvement, or things that are just wrong, please share. This is driving me insane.
<?php
session_start();
include_once("config.php");
include_once("includes/functions.php");
require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//database configuration & connection (hiding for privacy purposes, but the database connections work fine so not relevant
if ($_POST['submit']) {
$type=$_POST['type'];
$category= substr($type, 0, strpos($type, ' -'));
$category= strtolower($category);
$category= ucfirst($category);
$need = substr($type, strpos($type, "-") + 1);
$subject="REQUEST for " . $type;
$fullname= $_SESSION['google_data']['name'];
$fromemail=$_SESSION['google_data']['email'];
$brands=$_POST['brand'];
$size=$_POST['size'];
if ($size == "") {
$size="n/a";
}
$bleed=$_POST['bleed'];
if ($bleed =="no") {
$bleedsize="n/a";
} else {
$bleedsize=$_POST['bleedsize'];
}
$filetype=$_POST['filetype'];
if ($filetype=="") {
$filetype="n/a";
}
$footerurl=$_POST['footer-url'];
if ($footerurl=="") {
$footerurl="n/a";
}
$footerphone=$_POST['footer-phone'];
if ($footerphone=="") {
$footerphone="n/a";
}
$copy=mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['copy']);
$copyforemail=$_POST['copy'];
$approved=$_POST['approved'];
$seo=$_POST['seo'];
$proofread=$_POST['proofread'];
$info=mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['info']);
$infoforemail=$_POST['info'];
$priority=$_POST['priority'];
$requestdate= date('Y-m-d');
$duedate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-', '/', $_POST['duedate'])));
if ($duedate =="1969-12-31") {
$duedate="0000-00-00";
}
$timinginfo=mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['timinginfo']);
$timinginfoforemail=$_POST['timinginfo'];
$communication=mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['communication']);
$communicationforemail=$_POST['communication'];
//TEST EMAIL BEFORE INSERTING
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
/*
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = ''; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = ''; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
*/
$mail->setFrom($fromemail, $fullname);
$mail->addAddress('myemail#myemail.com', 'my name'); // Add recipients
$mail->addReplyTo('myemail#myemail.com', 'my name');
/*$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name*/
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Request coming for Creative Team";
$mail->Body = "Request coming";
$mail->AltBody = "Request coming";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
//continue to insert
}
$sql = "INSERT INTO requests (firstname, lastname, email, picture, category, type, brand, size, bleed, bleedsize, filetype, footerurl, footerphone, copy, approved, proofread, seo, info, priority, requestdate, duedate, timinginfo, communication ) VALUES ('" . $_SESSION['google_data']['given_name'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['google_data']['family_name'] . "','" . $_SESSION['google_data']['email'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['google_data']['picture'] . "', '$category', '$need', '$brands', '$size', '$bleed', '$bleedsize', '$filetype', '$footerurl', '$footerphone', '$copy', '$approved', '$proofread', '$seo', '$info', '$priority', '$requestdate', '$duedate', '$timinginfo', '$communication')";
$insertinfo = mysqli_query($con, $sql);
if (!$insertinfo) {
die("Database query failed: " . mysqli_error($con));
} else {
//Success, continue to email...
}
$plaintextversion= "
$type
BRAND: $brands
SPECS
SIZE: $size
BLEED: $bleed
BLEED SIZE: $bleedsize
FILE TYPE: $filetype
FOOTER URL: $footerurl
FOOTER PHONE: $footerphone
COPY: $copyforemail
COPY APPROVED? $approved
PROOFREAD? $proofread
ADDITIONAL INFO: $infoforemail
TIMING
PRIORITY: $priority
REQUEST DATE: $requestdate
DESIRED DUE DATE: $duedate
TIMING INFO: $timinginfoforemail
COMMUNICATION
ADDITIONAL PEOPLE TO INCLUDE: $communicationforemail";
} else {
header("Location:index.php");
}
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
/*
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = ''; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = ''; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
*/
$mail->setFrom($fromemail, $fullname);
$mail->addAddress('someone#someone.com', 'someone'); // Add recipients
$mail->addReplyTo('myemail#myemail.com', 'my name');
/*$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name*/
$mail->isHTML(false); // Set email format to plain text since that is what Salesforce needs
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $plaintextversion;
$mail->AltBody = $plaintextversion;
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
header("Location:request-success.php");
}
?>
<!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">
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
If you want plain-text only, call isHTML(false) and set only Body - don't put anything in AltBody.
There's no need to start from scratch every time - you can re-use the same PHPMailer instance and just change properties before sending for the second time.
You're using the submitters address as the From address - that's forgery, and will result in bounces from SPF failures, so put your address in From and theirs in reply-to.
As Jon says, validate, sanitize and escape anything going into SQL - it's quite likely that your failures are from submissions that contain a ', which will break your SQL.
Edit: I forgot I'd created the SendMail(); function myself, which is why the explanation doesn't mention at first what it does.
I'm having some trouble with PHPMailer (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) when attempting to send two emails, one directly after the other.
The script is almost completely 'out of the box', with only a few modifications such as a foreach loop to allow for multiple addresses, and everything still works perfectly.
However, if I attempt to call more than one instance of SendMail(); I get the error message:
Fatal error: Cannot override final method Exception::__clone() in .... online 0
Previously I was using the in-built mail(); function, which allowed me to use it as many times as I liked in quick succession , but it doesn't appear to be that simple with PHPmailer:
$to = me#me.com;
$to2 = me2#me2.com';
$headers = 'php headers etc';
$subject = 'generic subject';
$message = 'generic message';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
mail($to2, $subject, $message, $headers);
The above would result in two identical emails being sent to different people, however I can't easily replicate this functionality with PHPmailer.
Is there a way of stacking these requests so that I can send successive emails without it failing? Forcing the script to wait until the first email has been sent would also be acceptable, although not preferential.
As I mentioned I know it works when only one instance is called, but I don't seem to be able to re-use the function.
I haven't included the source code, although it is all available on the link provided above.
Thanks in advance
Edit as requested
// First Email
$to = array(
'test#test.com',
'test2#test.com',);
$subject = "Subject";
$message = $message_start.$message_ONE.$message_end;
sendMail();
// Second Email
$to = array(
'test#test.com',
'test2#test.com',);
$subject = "Subject";
$message = $message_start.$message_TWO.$message_end;
sendMail();
The above is how I want this to work, as it would work with mail();. The first email will work fine, the second will not.
SendMail() code
This is from the PHPmailer website, and is what is defined as SendMail();. The only difference from the example is the loop for AddAddress, and the inclusion of $to as a global variable.
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password
$mail->From = "from#example.com";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
foreach($to as $to_add){
$mail->AddAddress($to_add); // name is optional
}
$mail->AddReplyTo("info#example.com", "Information");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // add attachments
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // optional name
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
You haven't posted this code that lets me make this a complete conclusion, but from the Exception and the way you've defined an overriding class inside a function, you probably have class.phpmailer.php loading every time like this:
require('class.phpmailer.php');
or
include('class.phpmailer.php');
You should change that line to
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
The reason you need to change it to require_once is so that PHP will not load the class file the second time when you try to create the new/second PHPMailer class. Otherwise, the line class PHPMailer throws the __clone() exception.
Added an example below:
<?php
/**
* This example shows how to send a message to a whole list of recipients efficiently.
*/
//Import the PHPMailer class into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require '../vendor/autoload.php';
//Passing `true` enables PHPMailer exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true; // SMTP connection will not close after each email sent, reduces SMTP overhead
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = 'yourname#example.com';
$mail->Password = 'yourpassword';
$mail->setFrom('list#example.com', 'List manager');
$mail->addReplyTo('list#example.com', 'List manager');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Simple database mailing list test';
//Same body for all messages, so set this before the sending loop
//If you generate a different body for each recipient (e.g. you're using a templating system),
//set it inside the loop
$mail->msgHTML($body);
//msgHTML also sets AltBody, but if you want a custom one, set it afterwards
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!';
//Connect to the database and select the recipients from your mailing list that have not yet been sent to
//You'll need to alter this to match your database
$mysql = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password');
mysqli_select_db($mysql, 'mydb');
$result = mysqli_query($mysql, 'SELECT full_name, email, photo FROM mailinglist WHERE sent = FALSE');
foreach ($result as $row) {
try {
$mail->addAddress($row['email'], $row['full_name']);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Invalid address skipped: ' . htmlspecialchars($row['email']) . '<br>';
continue;
}
if (!empty($row['photo'])) {
//Assumes the image data is stored in the DB
$mail->addStringAttachment($row['photo'], 'YourPhoto.jpg');
}
try {
$mail->send();
echo 'Message sent to :' . htmlspecialchars($row['full_name']) . ' (' . htmlspecialchars($row['email']) . ')<br>';
//Mark it as sent in the DB
mysqli_query(
$mysql,
"UPDATE mailinglist SET sent = TRUE WHERE email = '" .
mysqli_real_escape_string($mysql, $row['email']) . "'"
);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Mailer Error (' . htmlspecialchars($row['email']) . ') ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '<br>';
//Reset the connection to abort sending this message
//The loop will continue trying to send to the rest of the list
$mail->getSMTPInstance()->reset();
}
//Clear all addresses and attachments for the next iteration
$mail->clearAddresses();
$mail->clearAttachments();
}
In addition to #Amr most excellent code.
In order to use this in a cron fasion, two adds are useful.
$mail-> SMTPDebug = true;
$mail-> Debugoutput = function( $str, $level ) {_log($str);};
The function _log is up to you. Writing to a file, to a database or wherever. I personally have reduced this to
$mail-> Debugoutput = function( $str, $level ) {if( $level===3 ) {_log( $str ); } };
to only write the more juicier messages
the solution is to reset recipients data like this:
$Mailer->clearAddresses()
use your own variable as an instance of PHPMailer (instead of $Mailer)
$Mailer->clearAddresses()
This is the solution to avoid multiple msj to be send to the same recipient.
I am using phpMailer, and i have a database table "list" with columns id|name|email|status.
What i am doing currently is using the phpMailer example
date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');
require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$id = $_GET['id'];
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.xample.com;smtp2.xample.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true; // SMTP connection will not close after each email sent
$mail->Host = "mail.example.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "no-reply#example.com"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP account password
$mail->SetFrom('no-reply#example.com', 'Honda example');
$mail->AddReplyTo('no-reply#example.com', 'Honda example');
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp, basic with authentication";
#MYSQL_CONNECT("localhost","root","password");
#mysql_select_db("osher");
$query = "SELECT full_name, email, photo FROM employee WHERE id=$id";
$result = #MYSQL_QUERY($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) {
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAddress($row["email"], $row["full_name"]);
$mail->AddStringAttachment($row["photo"], "YourPhoto.jpg");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error (" . str_replace("#", "#", $row["email"]) . ') ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '<br />';
} else {
echo "Message sent to :" . $row["full_name"] . ' (' . str_replace("#", "#", $row["email"]) . ')<br />';
}
// Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop
$mail->ClearAddresses();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
}
Now the code above is db-email.php Where in if my table, email has over 100 entries with status as pending, i want to be able to using php. select each rows id and call db-email.php?id=xx (where x is the id) hence the email gets sent.
This works fine, if its done manually.
i needed you guys to help me, how best I can automate this process, that is to be able to push this 100 emails (without having to refresh the page)
assuming, I am on email.php where I can probably hit (a button) and it would simply start processing, each of the row in the email table, (instead of echo'n the result) I will be updating the database with status to = 'sent'
I am not sure if I have been very clear on what I want to ask, Please do help friends.
I believe someone with expertise in jQuery/AJAX or something could help me achieve this task :)
I'm not sure what your trying to do but, you can't do anything with databases or servers via javascript or jquery because there executed in the browser and not on the server.
You could use ajax to call certain .php files on the server with some parameters to do your job !