PHP - When There's An Error, Sending Too Many Emails To Self. How To Limit To Just One?

Hello,
I'm trying to send an email with a PDF attachment. The email is sending, but the attachment will not open. Any help you can give is appreciated. Code snippets below:

function mail_attachment($filename, $path, $mailto, $from_mail, $from_name, $replyto, $subject, $message) {
    $file = $path.$filename;
    $file_size = filesize($file);
    $handle = fopen($file, "r");
    $content = fread($handle, $file_size);
    fclose($handle);
    $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
    $uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
    $name = basename($file);
    $header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n";
    $header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n";
    $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
    $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= $message."\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: application/pdf; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n"; // use different content types here
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "--".$uid."--";
    if (mail($mailto, $subject, "", $header)) {
        print("mail send ... OK"); // or use booleans here
    } else {
        print("mail send ... ERROR!");
    }
}

$my_file = "Adol_Packet_v2.pdf";
$my_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/homepages/35/d350375870/htdocs/html/";
$my_name = "Company Name";
$my_mail = "atheneris@yahoo.com";
$my_replyto = "atheneris@yahoo.com";
$my_subject = "Welcome Email From Carlock & Associates";

$my_message = "Test Message";

mail_attachment($my_file, $my_path, $email_to, $my_mail, $my_name, $my_replyto, $my_subject, $my_message);

I'm curious about the mechanics of the script execution here.

One page in my project sends out batch emails to all users who are registered. That part is simlple enough, but in order to do it, my page has to connect to a remote SMTP server and then submit all the recipients and messages. This process can take a little bit of time, usually 5 seconds or so. If the user hits the stop button or navigates away while my script is still executing, will it mess up the emails that are being sent?

If so, what other way should I restructure my script to make it more robust? The first thing that comes to my mind is adding them to some sort of queue in the database and then have a separate script that checks periodically for messages that need to be sent and then send them. The only way to do this, though, would be to make a script designed to be called by cron, and that somewhat complicated the installation of my script which I'd like to avoid.

So far I just want a basic structure, a database with one table with two values, yes or no. yes would be for email validated, no for email not validated. i just want it so when a user signs up, it sends a unique link to their email to validate their email.

I cant even think right now, ive been coding all day and cant even begin to think of how to start this.

anybody got any ideas?

thanks

I am using PHP Mailer to send out emails to an array of email address. So I am looping through the array of emails and then sending out the emails individually. The script works except it is sending out more than one email to some of the email address.
Today my client told me that he got 2 more emails on Sunday just like the 2 he got on Thursday. I am assuming that this has something to do with caching, but I do not know.
 
The trigger that sends out the emails is part of a cron job. The cronjob runs every 30 minutes. Checks to see if there is a new entry in one of the tables in the database. Then it sends out the email to all of the members. After the email is sent a value is changed for that entry in the data base. I am explaining this only to help you to see that the problem is not that the code is being triggered again. If that was the problem then there would be and email every 30 minutes and that is not what happened.
 
Here is the code:
 

 
<?php
require_once('library/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php');
require_once('library/PHPMailer/class.smtp.php');    

foreach($organizationemails as $key => $value){
        $contents = '<body>
                                <div>
                                <p>
                                ...content of email ...
                                </p>
                                </div>
                                </body>';


        error_reporting(E_ALL);
        error_reporting(E_STRICT);
        $mail             = new PHPMailer();
        $body             = $contents;
        $body             = preg_replace('/[\]/','',$body);
        $mail->IsSMTP();
        $mail->Host       = "ssl://smtp.mysite.org";
        $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                 
        $mail->Port       = 465;                  
        $mail->Username   = "sendingmail@mysite.org";
        $mail->Password   = "password";       
        $mail->SetFrom('info@mysite.org', 'My Organization');
        $mail->AddReplyTo('info@mysite.org', 'My Organization');
        $mail->Subject    = 'My Email Title';
        $mail->AltBody    = '... has been posted...';
        $mail->MsgHTML($contents);
        $address = $value;
        $mail->AddAddress($address);
        
        if(!$mail->Send())
        {
             echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
             echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
             exit;
        }else{
            echo "Message has been sent to ".$value;    
        }
}
?>

Hi, I am using the phpmailer class and a little script I found online, I have a form with a textarea called "plain" which submits and takes the action through to this page:

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<?php

#include PHPMailer class and database connection
include("class.phpmailer.php");
include("connect.php");

#remove slashes from content
$plain = stripslashes($_POST["plain"]);

#initiate PHPMailer class
$mail = new PHPMailer();
#set the from e-mail address
$mail->From = "email@email.com";
#set the from name
$mail->FromName = "myname";

#the subject of the email
$mail->Subject = "Our Newsletter";
#the HTML content of the email
$mail->Body = $plain;


#loop through e-mail addresses
$query = "SELECT email FROM member";
$result = mysql_db_query ("define_pete", $query);
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)){

#add subscribers address as the recipient
$mail->AddAddress($myrow["fldEmail"]);
#sends the newsletter
$mail->Send();
#clears the recipient address
$mail->ClearAddresses();


}

?>

It gives no errors and goes through, yet it definitely sends no emails out, I have made sure the emails are correct in the field email in the table member but it is, anyone got any clue what is going wrong?

Appreciated

Hello,
I'm using phpmailer for this job, and what I want is that in first mail user gets only text and in second he gets text with attachment. But code below is only sending me the mail with attachment(second mail), what is cosing this problem?


Here's the code
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 for ($i=0; $i<2; $i++)
      {
                  if (!class_exists("phpmailer")) {
                 require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php"); 
                 }         
                 if ($price != 0 )
                 {       
                   
                    $mail = new PHPMailer();
                    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
                    $mail->From = "domain@d.com";
                    $mail->FromName = "Company";       
                    $mail->AddAddress($email, "");
                    $mail->WordWrap = 50;
                    $mail->IsHTML(true);
                    $mail->Subject = "Subjcet";       
                    $mail->Body = $content; 
                 }
                 
                 if ($i == 1 || $price == 0 )
                 {
                     
                    //require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");           
                    $mail = new PHPMailer();
                    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
                    $mail->From = "domain@d.com";
                    $mail->FromName = "Company";       
                    $mail->AddAddress($email, "");
                    $mail->WordWrap = 50;
                    $mail->IsHTML(true);
                    $mail->Subject = "Subjcet"; 
                    $mail->Addattachment ("file/patch".$fileName, ); // patch and name of an attachment
                 }
               
  }

I have a form that allows a user to select from several dropdowns, employees who will receive an email message.
The email script works fine, however if an employee is selected more than once (which is not a rare) then the employee will receive as many email messages as their name appears.
I would like for each employee to only receive the email once.

For example:
I am the submitter of the form and I am also the coordinator for this particular job. Therefore, my name & email are in the array twice and I will receive two emails on submit.

Here is my email script:

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             $submitter = get_employee_email($user_id);
$project_manager = get_employee_email($pm_id);
$accountant = get_employee_email($a_id);
$coordinator = get_employee_email($pc_id);
$contractor = get_employee_email($contractor_id);
$director = get_employee_email($dr_id);

$to = array($submitter, $project_manager, $accountant, $coordinator, $contractor, $director);
foreach ($to as $t){
$headers["From"] = "TEST <TEST@gmail.com>";
$headers["To"] = $t;
$headers["Subject"] = "TESTING FOR JOB ID $job_id";
    $text = "TESTING. Please review!";
    $html = "<html><body>TESTING. Please review!</body></html>";
$file_path = "./$file";
$crlf = "\n";
    $name = "TEST.csv";

    $smtp_info["host"] = "TEST@gmail.com";
$smtp_info["port"] = "40";

$mime = new Mail_mime($crlf);

$mime->setTXTBody($text);
$mime->setHTMLBody($html);

$content_type = "text/csv";
    $mime->addAttachment($file_path, $content_type, $name);

$body = $mime->get();
$hdrs = $mime->headers($headers);

    $SMTP = Mail::factory('smtp',$smtp_info);
    $mail = $SMTP->send($t, $hdrs, $body);
}

I've been ALL over the internet trying to find complete step by step guides on getting php to work for my contact form and I can't find anything. Or at least nothing that makes sense to me. I know nothing about PHP, I'm more of a designer/html/css person. PHP is completely foreign to me and very hard to understand. I have downloaded PHPMailer but I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it or how to really configure it. I really need help in that area. This contact form is the last thing I need before I can put my redesign of my website up.

Hi,
I'm getting following error on my website
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 36000000 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/celebratingart.com/1DEV_CELEBRATINGART/judges/phpimageeditor/classes/phpimageeditor.php on line 652

I tried to increase memory limit to 256M but invain.
Please Help

Hello, recently I changed host of my website and when a visitor clicks "contact us" button in my website (in which one needs to enter his/ her email, name, phone , etc) and submit his/her message then I get email. Before this hosting I used to get emails from the visitor who filled the form so it was easier for me to reply but now after I changed the host I get email as "mydomain@hosting-company-domain" instead of the visitor's email. I messaged them then they told me something about SMTP authenticate using PHP, please guide me to fix this.

Hey guys, Im getting an undefined index limit in the whole code.

This is my code:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['prev_page'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (!session_is_registered('username')) {
    header("location:login.php");
}
?> 



<hr>

<style type="text/css">
table.gridtable {
  color:#333333;
  border-width: 1px;
  border-color: #666666;
  border-collapse: collapse;
        width: 100%;
}
table.gridtable th {
  border-width: 1px;
  padding: 1px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #666666;
  background-color: #dedede;
}
table.gridtable td {
  border-width: 1px;
  padding: 1px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #666666;
}

.valid {
  border-width: 1px;
  padding: 1px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #666666;
  background-color: transparent;
}


</style>
</div>
<div class="newsJustify">
<script type="text/javascript">
   function checkall(delchk)
   {
      for (i = 0; i < delchk.length; i++)
      delchk[i].checked = true;
   }
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
   function uncheckall(delchk)
   {
      for (i = 0; i < delchk.length; i++)
      delchk.checked = false;
   }
</script>



<script language="JavaScript">
function loadPage(list) {
  location.href=list.options[list.selectedIndex].value
}
</script>


<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("chat") or die(mysql_error());

if (isset($_POST['del'])) {
    for ($count = 0; $count < count($_POST["delchk"]); $count++) {
        $delete = $_POST["delchk"][$count];
        $query  = "DELETE FROM members_shouts WHERE id = '$delete'";
        $result = mysql_query($query);
        if (!$result) {
            die("Error deleting accounts! Query: $query<br />Error: " . mysql_error());
        }
    }
}

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `members_shouts`") or die(mysql_error());
$rows = mysql_num_rows($data);

$page_rows = $_GET["limit"];
if ($page_rows == '') {
    // no double quotes (int)
    $page_rows = 5;
} elseif ($page_rows == 'all') {
    $page_rows = $rows;
} else {
    $page_rows = $_GET['limit'];
    /* validate this */
}
if (!isset($_GET['pagenum'])) {
    $page = 1;
} else {
    $page = (int) $_GET['pagenum'];
}
?>

<?php
$max_pages = ceil($rows / $page_rows);
$last      = ceil($rows / $page_rows);
$pagenum   = ($page && $page > 0 && $page <= $last) ? $page : 1;
$max       = 'limit ' . ($pagenum - 1) * $page_rows . ',' . $page_rows;
$data_p = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members_shouts $max") or die(mysql_error());
?>





<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members_shouts");
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
?>



<span style="float: left;margin-left: 2px;">
<form>
<select name="file" size="1" onchange="loadPage(this.form.elements[0])" target="_parent._top">
            <option value="" <?php
    if ($_GET['limit'] == 0) {
        echo 'selected';
    }
?>>Select Limit</option>
            <option value="?limit=9" <?php
    if ($_GET['limit'] == 9) {
        echo 'selected';
    }
?>>9</option>
            <option value="?limit=15" <?php
    if ($_GET['limit'] == 15) {
        echo 'selected';
    }
?>>15</option>
            <option value="?limit=30" <?php
    if ($_GET['limit'] == 30) {
        echo 'selected';
    }
?>>30</option>
            <option value="?limit=all" <?php
    if ($_GET['limit'] == 'all') {
        echo 'selected';
    }
?>>All</option>
</select>
</form>
</span>

<span style="float: right;margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;">
<center>
<?php
    if ($pagenum == 1) {
    } else {
        echo " <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?pagenum=1&limit={$_GET['limit']}'>First</a> ";
        echo " | ";
        echo " ";
        $previous = $pagenum - 1;
        $current  = $pagenum;
        echo " <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?pagenum=$previous&limit={$_GET['limit']}'>$previous</a> ";
        echo " | ";
    }
    echo "$pagenum";
    if ($pagenum == $last || $last == 0) {
    } else {
        $next = $pagenum + 1;
        echo " | ";
        echo " <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?pagenum=$next&limit={$_GET['limit']}'>$next</a> ";
        echo " ";
        echo " | ";
        echo " <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?pagenum=$last&limit={$_GET['limit']}'>Last</a> ";
    }
?>
</center>
</span>

<style type="text/css">
  .clear2 {
    clear:both;
    height:0px;
    overflow:hidden;
  }
</style>

  <div class="clear2"></div>
<hr>




<?php
    echo "<table class=\"gridtable\">
<thead>
    <tr>
        <th align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">user</th>
        <th align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">message</th>
        <th align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">when</th>
       <th align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">Delete?</th>
    </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>";
    echo "<form name = 'myform' action='' method='post'>";
?>




<?php
    while ($info = mysql_fetch_array($data_p)) {
        echo "<tr align=\"center\">";
        echo "<td class=\"valid\" >" . $info['user'] . "</td>";
        echo "<td class=\"valid\" >" . $info['message'] . "</td>";
        echo "<td>" . $info['when'] . "</td>";
        echo '<td><input type="checkbox" id="delchk" name="delchk[]" value="' . $info['id'] . '" /></td>';
        echo "</tr>";
    }
    echo "</tbody>";
    echo "</table>";
    echo "<hr>";
    echo "<input type='submit' name = 'del' value='Delete Selected'></form>";
    echo "<input type='button' onclick='checkall(document.myform[\"delchk\"]);' value='Select All'>";
    echo "<input type='button' onclick='uncheckall(document.myform[\"delchk\"]);' value='Deselect All'>";
    echo "<hr>";
?>



<?php
} else {
    // No rows were found ...
    echo '<center>No logged accounts.</center><hr>';
}
?> 
</hr>

Im getting these errors and cant figure out at all how to fix them.

the reason is, is that you can set the limit of rows to show on one page, and that is set by the variable limit

it is used in 'localhost/admin?limit=5' That is 5 rows per page.

There is also one called 'localhost/admin?limit=all' that is to show all the rows in one page.

Im getting the errors:

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Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 176

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 179

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 90

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 130

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 135

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 140

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 145

Notice: Undefined index: limit in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\admin.php on line 150

I would be glad if someone could help me out by showing me how to set the limit when there is no GET used in the url.[/i]

I am getting an error message. But the program works

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Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\Exam_Online\try.php:3) in C:\xampp\htdocs\Exam_Online\Staff_login_process.php on line 4
Wrong Username or Password
my code is

<Html>

<?php 
//session_start();
include 'Staff_login_process.php';

MYSQL_CONNECT(localhost,'root','') OR DIE("Unable to connect to database"); 
@mysql_select_db(Examination) or die( "Unable to select database");

?>
<body>
<form action="try1.php" method="post">
<?PHP

$query=("SELECT * FROM User u, User_X_Subject us, Subject s WHERE u.Use_Name = '{$_SESSION['username']}'

AND u.Use_ID= us.Use_ID 

AND s.Sub_ID=us.Sub_ID");



$result=mysql_query($query) or die ("Unable to Make the Query:" . mysql_error() );
echo "<select name=myselect>";  

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ 

echo "<OPTION VALUE=".$row['Sub_ID'].">".$row['Sub_Name']."</OPTION>";
}

echo "</select>"; 

?>

<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Unless buffer overflows or breaking out of code to perform a new command are problems that have been solved....

I am trying to figure out the proper PHP method for setting a boundary on a variable within a script. I have this variable $name which is fed a value from $_POST['name'] from a form field. Now this form field is limited in the HTML to accept only 20 characters, but someone could easily edit the form or outgoing post data. So I want to know how to limit the variable size in the script. In other languages it could be something like this: var name(20). So how do I do that in PHP?

I have been working a a program to send text messages using php  but my headers containing the "From:" part of the text message keep on returning an error. Could someone please explain what i'm doing wrong. I have attached the php script and the html page I am using as a form.   
<?php
$from = $_POST['from'];
$to = $_POST['to'];
$carrier = $_POST['carrier'];
$carrierFrom = $_POST['carrierFrom']
$message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);

//From Function

 if ($carrierFrom == "verizon") 
{$formatted_from = $from."@vtext.com";}

 if ($carrierFrom == "tmobile") 
{$formatted_from = $from."@tomomail.net";}

 if ($carrierFrom == "sprint") 
{$formatted_from = $from."@messaging.sprintpcs.com";}

if ($carrierFrom == "att") {
$formatted_from = $from."@txt.att.net";

if ($carrierFrom == "gmail") {
$formatted_from = $from."@gmail.com";
}

//To Function

 if ($carrierFrom == "verizon")
{$formatted_number = $to."@vtext.com";}

 if ($carrier == "tmobile") 
{$formatted_number = $to."@tomomail.net";}

if ($carrier == "sprint") 
{$formatted_number = $to."@messaging.sprintpcs.com";}

 if ($carrier == "att") 
{$formatted_number = $to."@txt.att.net";}

 if ($carrier == "gmail") 
{$formatted_number = $to."@gmail.com";}

//Send

$sent = mail($formatted_number,$message,$formattedFrom) ; 
if($sent) 
{print "Your text was sent successfully"; }
else 
{print "We encountered an error sending your text"; }

?>

hey everyone. I'm working on a site (built almost from scratch) and i used a book which implements a design i'm not all too confident about, but i'll try it out. Anywho there is one thing that bugs me, and that is that I don't know how to properly setup error messages. For example, the login page does this:
* gather data
* send $_POST data to process.inc.php
* process.inc.php handles the object implementation, and sends you to the dashboard if your login is successful and returns you to the login page if the login attempt is unsuccessful

However, on the last one, if I have to send the user back to the page because of a failed attempt, i'd like to display an error message, but I'm not clear on the best way of doing this considering the request isn't handled by PHP_SELF.

I hope I made sense. If not, I'll gladly try to clear up any confusion, and thanks in advance