emailing on the fly pages.

[boyfromoz]

I'm building a php/mysql site for a real estate site. Amongst other things has a mailing list, and a list of properties.

People surfing the site can elect to view only vertain types of properties, say, all the houses.

I wish to email a page to all people on the mailing list details of all new properties.

I can create the page that shows the new properties, but how do I email it, so that the page is visible as a web page within say, outlook express?

Has anyone done somthing similar?

 

[spookie]

$to = "emailadressofrecipient" ;
$subject = "ursubject";

$msg = "ur html msg" ;

$headers = "From: fromemail\nReply-To: replytoemail\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
mail("$to", "$subject", "$msg", "$headers"


since ur sending this email to number of people u can loop thru ur record to get the recipient email address to get the value of $to each time.
Also note that if u intend to send images within ur html msg give the abs path like

http://pathtourimage/image.gif

so that it will directly display from ur sever..

hope that will help u

spookie
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[LittleHavoc]

To save a bit of time you can do the following.

N.B. There are some problems with this on a microsoft platform.

// $email_array contains an array of email addresses

// create list of email addresses seperated by commas
while( list($key, $value) = each ($email_array) )
{
$email_to_list.= $value . ",";
}
if(trim($email_to_list)=="&quot
{
// no email recipients go to error page
header("location: error.php"
exit;
}
else
{
// remove trailing , in list
$email_to_list = substr($email_to_list,0,-1);
}

$to=""
$header = "From: fromemail\nReply-To: replytoemail\nBcc: " . $email_to_list . "\n\n";
$subject = "ursubject";
$msg = "ur html msg" ;

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

This will then send 1 email to everyone in the list without including the other peoples addresses (Bcc:Blind Carbon Copy)