Re: how to send an email to everone listed in a file

In article <20020410034941.35035.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com>, policetrainee@yahoo.com says... > Hi all. I really wish I could contribute here and help > people out too but i don't know a fraction of the > stuff that you gurus do. > I try not to bug you all with too many questions and > try to figure it out/learn on my own as much as > possible. > > I am trying to figure out how i could send an email to > everyone listed in a file. the file contains a name > followed by a space followed by their email followed > by a carriage return. the number of entries in the > file changes. i would like to send the newletter to > everyone in the file and have their name put in the > email as well. (since i don't endorse spam I assure > you this isn't for such purpose). > > From what i'm able to figure out on my own, I think > i'm going to need something that reads the file into > some array which separates each entry based on the \n > and the space and some sort of loop (for, while, etc). > I have no idea how complex of a task this is but i > would appreciate any help or ideas! thanks! (note: i'm > on php4.0.4pl1) > file() will read the file into an array; you could then use explode() on each element of the array to extract the email address, and mail() to send the message. -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi! Quod subigo farinam