Sending mail from script with email list file - php

Question

back again. I wanted to know if there's anyway to specify a particular file for the recipients so that it sends to the emails in the file instead of having to put a comma between all of the emails. Thanks
<?php
$name = $_POST['Chase'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = 'my message';
$from = 'From: email#domain';
$to = 'Email.txt(herE)';
$subject = 'hi world';
$body = "From: $name\r\n E-Mail: $email\r\n Message:\r\n $message";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: email#domain' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if (!mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) { echo "Error Sending Email!"; }
else
{ echo "Mail sent!"; }

Answer 1

You could use something like this :-
Note :- Make sure you From email is active when you're hosting this on a server accessible via domain.
$name = "some name";
$email = "test#gmail.com";
$message = 'my message';
$subject = 'hi world';
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: youremail#yourdomain.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$handle = fopen("emails.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($line = fgets($handle)) !== false) {
if (!mail($line, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "Error Sending Email!";
}
else
{
echo "Mail sent!";
}
} //while
fclose($handle);
}//if - outer
else
{
echo "can't open file";
}
emails.txt
test#gmail.com
foo#gmail.com
You can add more emails to the text file, without adding a comma.
P.s :- I'd highly recommend you to use phpmailer.
File security
Make sure that you protect the text file through .htaccess, this is very important.
Here is a Q&A on the subject on Stack:
Allow scripts to read a file but prevent users from viewing the file directly
You can further your research by using "how to protect a text file php" as keywords in your favorite search engine.