PHP - How to send emails to address on MYSQL? - php

Question

How can I send emails to all emails on my database? E.g. here is my format of MYSQL.
MYSQL -- Table = users --- column = email. I need to send emails to everyone of the email on column "email".

Answer 1

Simple ready to use PHP script for sending mail from mysql data
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_user", "mysql_password") or
die("Could not connect: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("mydb");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM mytable");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) {
sendMail($row[0]);
}
mysql_free_result($result);
function sendMail($to){
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
?>

Answer 2

Do you know how to pull data from MySQL? if so, you should just execute the mail() function for each row.

Answer 3

The code that JapanPro suggested is great! However, I have read over the internet about doing this. If there is loads of emails to be sent it will take a long time and possible slow down your server and clog it up. I would recommend doing it in intervals. So like in sets of 10 or 20.
This is only based on the information I have read. And I can se where they are coming from.