Sending form information to emails stored in the database - php

Question

I have been researching this but cant sem to get an answer.
I have a form that is sending the info to my database, I also want the info to go to email addresses which are stored in a column in my table in the database. Heres the code, I was just playing around to see if I could do a SELECT query but it wouldnt work, also Iknow that sending the email works when I manually ut an address into my "setTo"
require 'mail/class.simple_mail.php';
$mailer = new SimpleMail();
$comments = $_REQUEST['comments'];
$time = $_REQUEST['time'];
$date = $_REQUEST['date'];
$place = $_REQUEST['place'];
$email = "SELECT email FROM bridesmaids";
$message = "<strong>This is an email from the bride to you the bridesmaids, here is the information on the next dress fitting<br />".$date." ".$time." ".$place." ".$comments." </strong>";
$send = $mailer->setTo('$email', 'Your Email')
->setSubject('Dress Fitting')
->setFrom('donaghy-e5#email.ulster.ac.uk', 'Domain.com')
->addMailHeader('Reply-To', 'donaghy-e5#email.ulster.ac.uk', 'Domain.com')
->addMailHeader('Cc', 'donaghy-e5#email.ulster.ac.uk', 'Bill Gates')
->addGenericHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset="utf-8"')
->setMessage($message)
->setWrap(100)
->send();
echo ($send) ? 'Your Email has been sent to your bridesmaids' : 'Could not send email';

Answer 1

If you haven't created an SQL connection, do this first then:
1: Select your emails from your bridesmaids table - then return the results into an array (PDO::FETCH_ASSOC or fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)) and bind this array to a variable e.g. $mailingList.
2: Wrap your mailer code in a foreach loop (http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php) an example would be:
foreach($mailingList as $value) {
// your mailer code here, replace $email with $value
$send = $mailer->setTo($value, 'Your Email')
// $value will update for each iteration with your emails
}
3: Ensure any code or variables which do not need to be repeated are outside of the loop.

Answer 2

You don't query the database for the actual e-mail adresses. You just have s string that contains an SQL Query but you never actually connect to a database and fetch data using a query.
$email = "SELECT email FROM bridesmaids";
This should become something like this:
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT email FROM bridesmaids")) {
printf("Select returned %d rows.\n", $result->num_rows);
$result->close();
}