Re: Files

Chris, He's my take on your problem, I have used a few different functions but followed the same pattern as your original script. Check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/ to get the details on the ones you don't understand. I have not included error checking. This example works successfully on my system. --Bob <?php $recp_list = file("mail_group_list.txt"); $group_list = file("file_group_list.txt"); $cnt = 0; foreach($recp_list as $line) { $split = explode(',', $line); $id = trim($split[0]); $email = trim($split[1]); if($email != '') {

      foreach($group_list as $groupline) {
         $groupsplit = explode(",", $groupline);
         $groupid = trim($groupsplit[0]);
         $groupFileName = trim($groupsplit[1]);
         if($id == $groupid) {
            $cnt++;
            // start mailing
            $fromname = "Test Mailer";
            $fromaddress = "email@email.com";
            $subject = "Test mail";
            $message = "Test message $groupFileName";
            $headers = "From: $fromname <$fromaddress>\n";
            // Notify the user on screen if the send was succesfull
            if(mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
              print "Mail sent  successfully to $email";
            } else {
              print "Mail not sent to $email";
            }
         }
      }

} } if(!$cnt) { print 'No matches in files.'; } ?> Chris Grigor wrote:

Hey all, I am having a bash at working with flat files. What I am trying to achieve is the following There are 2 files with info in them, file1 has id,email and file2 has id,filename what I am trying to achieve is open up file1 get the id and email then open file2 and match the id of file1 to id of file2, then if succesful send a mail with the filename in file2. Maybe have a look at the code... $recp_list = fopen("mail_group_list.txt", "r"); while(!feof($recp_list)) { $line = fgets($recp_list, 255);

    		$line = chop($line);

$split = explode(",", $line); $id = $split[0]; $email = $split[1]; // time to mail.

        if ($email != "") {

$group_list = fopen("file_group_list.txt", "r"); while(!feof($group_list)) { $groupline = fgets($group_list, 255); $groupline = chop($groupline); $groupsplit = explode(",", $groupline); $groupid = $groupsplit[0]; $groupFileName = $groupsplit[1]; if($groupid = $id) { // start mailing $fromname = "Test Mailer"; $fromaddress = "email@email.com"; $subject = "Test mail"; $message = "Test message $groupFileName"; $headers = "From: \"".$fromname."\" <".$fromaddress.">\n"; // Notify the user on screen if the send was succesfull if(mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)) { print "Mail sent successfully to $email"; } else { print "Mail not sent to $email"; } }#end if groupid = id }#end while group list }#end if email }#end while email !="" ?> So thats the mail.php mail_list_group.txt looks like this 1,test@test.com 5,test1@test.com 7,test@test.com file_group_list.txt looks like this 2,filename1.doc 3,filename2.doc 4,filename3.doc Any help on this would be great ! Cheers Chris PS the formatting might come out all wrong as its mailed from a web account.