PHPMailer adding multiple emails to BCC from MYSQL - php

Question

In below code, we are first selecting users based on the admin's input from database. Then sending emails to those users. With the code it sends emails to $mail_news->addAddress('testuser#gmail.com'); test user. But for the bcc part is not working, as it doesn't send any emails to bcc email users.
foreach($email_array as $news_mail){
$mail_news->AddBCC($news_mail.";");
}
This is how we fetch user emails via form & PHP prepare statement with mysqli.
Here is the main part code:
if($msn->execute()){
$msn->store_result();
$msn->bind_result($news_mail);
while($msn->fetch()){
$email_array[] = $news_mail;
}
// echo "successful";
}
else
{
echo "database failed";
}
//--Email Sending Starts
$mail_news = new PHPMailer;
$mail_news->isSMTP();
$mail_news->Host = EMAIL_HOST;
$mail_news->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail_news->Port = EMAIL_PORT;
$mail_news->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail_news->Username = EMAIL_ADD;
$mail_news->Password = EMAIL_PASS;
$mail_news->From = EMAIL_ADD;
$mail_news->FromName = 'Company Account';
$mail_news->addAddress('testuser#gmail.com');
foreach($email_array as $news_mail){
$mail_news->AddBCC($news_mail.";");
}
$mail_news->WordWrap = 50;
// $mail_news->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail_news->isHTML(true);
$mail_news->Subject = "".$sub;
$mail_news->Body = "".$body;
$mail_news->AltBody = "".$altbody;
if(!$mail_news->send()) {
echo "Failed Sending Emails" ;
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail_news->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "All Email sending completed" ;
}
?>
</form>
<?php
$msn->close(); // Finally closing the database
}
?>

Answer 1

You need to change the line
$mail_news->AddBCC($news_mail.";");
with
$mail_news->AddBCC($news_mail);
because the method addBCC() handles the semicolon by itself. You do not need to specify by your own.