Php email send issue - php

Question

Following is my HTML Select field which gets all the emails from my database. Now I'm trying to send single or multiple emails with php. But It doesn't send any emails. Can you tell me what is wrong with my code ?
Html Code:
<tr>
<td valign="top">To</td>
<td>
<select multiple="multiple" size="7" name="to[]">
<?php
$getemail = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM clients");
while($res = mysql_fetch_array($getemail)){
$email = inputvalid($res['email']);
echo "<option value='$email'>$email</option>";
}
?>s
</select>
</td>
</tr>
Php Code:
foreach($to as $total){
$total;
$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$mail = mail($total, $subject, $msg, $headers);
}
Update-Full Code:
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" />
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" style="float:left;
position:relative;">
<tr>
<td>Subject</td>
<td><input type="text" name="subject" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['subject'])) echo
$_POST['subject']; ?>" class="tr"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Message</td>
<td><textarea name="msg" class="textarea_email"><?php if(isset($_POST['msg'])) echo
$_POST['msg']; ?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Send Message" class=" submit" name="Submit"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table style="float:left; position:relative; border:0px #000 solid;" width="400" border="0"
cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">To</td>
<td>
<select multiple="multiple" size="7" name="to[]">
<?php
$getemail = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM clients") or die(mysql_error());;
while($res = mysql_fetch_array($getemail)){
$email = inputvalid($res['email']);
echo "<option value='$email'>$email</option>";
}
?>s
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Php code:
if(isset($_POST['Submit']) && $_POST['Submit'] == "Send Message")
{
$subject = inputvalid($_POST['subject']);
$msg = inputvalid($_POST['msg']);
$to = $_POST['to'];
if(isset($subject) && isset($msg) && isset($to)){
if(empty($subject) && empty($msg) && empty($to))
$err[] = "All filed require";
}
else{
if(empty($to))
$err[] = "Please select email address";
if(empty($subject))
$err[] = "Subject require";
if(empty($msg))
$err[] = "Message require";
}
if(!empty($err))
{
echo "<div class='error'>";
foreach($err as $er)
{
echo "<font color=red>$er.</font>
<br/>";
}
echo "</div>";
echo "<br/>";
}
else{
foreach($to as $total){
echo $total;
$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$mail = mail($total, $subject, $msg,
$headers);
}
if($mail)
echo "<font color=green>Successfully sent your message. We will be get in
touch with you. Thank You.</font/><br/><br/>";
header("Refresh:10; url=email.php");
}
}

Answer 1

You can send multiple emails for one mail function.
Only pass email address with comma separated.
like "test#gmail.com,test1#gmail.com"

Answer 2

first make sure that you query is correct.
Change the following line:
$getemail = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM clients");
to
$getemail = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM clients") or die(mysql_error());
Change the following line:
$total;
to
echo $total . '<BR />';
Save and refresh the page
What is your output?
Do you get an errormessage?
Do you see emailadresses?
edit:
change the following line
$mail = mail($total, $subject, $msg, $headers);
to
if (!mail($total, $subject, $msg, $headers);) {
echo 'This is not working';
}
What is your result?

Answer 3

Check your apache-configs! I had the same problem on my local machine. as soon as i uploaded it on a fully configured Webserver, the code started to work! Maybe this solves your problem, too

Answer 4

Some time mail() function may not work so you should go with PHPMailer, for more details to use this, you can go through a good documentation :
Send mail using PHPMailer