PHP send mail to multiple email addresses

Question

What code I should do change in this PHP script to send one email to more than 20 email addresses?

<?php

$email_to = "youremailaddress@yourdomain.com"; // your email address
$email_subject = "Contact Form Message"; // email subject line
$thankyou = "thankyou.htm"; // thank you page

?>

Please give me an example. Thank you.

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score 62 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 28 '16 at 09:40

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Fore readability sake in the code use an array and implode it to a comma separated string:-

$recipients = array(
  "youremailaddress@yourdomain.com",
  // more emails
);
$email_to = implode(',', $recipients); // your email address
$email_subject = "Contact Form Message"; // email subject line
$thankyou = "thankyou.htm"; // thank you page

edited Sep 28 '16 at 09:40

Alive to die - Anant

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answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:39

prodigitalson

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Please never do it like that, if the recipients do not (or should not) know each other. This way every address is exposed to every recipient. – Paul Spiegel Oct 06 '17 at 21:43

score 42 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:13

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Your

$email_to = "address@one.com, address@two.com, address@three.com"

Needs to be a comma delimited list of email adrresses.

mail($email_to, $email_subject, $thankyou);

answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:13

Stefan H

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why do you put a space after the comma? and not .com,address for example? – Jon Feb 25 '16 at 11:42
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@Jon, I'd propose the spaces after the commas help with readability – Dvaeer Feb 07 '22 at 09:24

score 29 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:14

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Just separate them by comma, like $email_to = "youremailaddress@yourdomain.com, emailtwo@yourdomain.com, John Doe <emailthree@example.com>".

answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:14

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score 14 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 07 '14 at 11:18

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Following code will do the task....

<?php

$contacts = array(
"youremailaddress@yourdomain.com",
"youremailaddress@yourdomain.com",
//....as many email address as you need
);

foreach($contacts as $contact) {

$to      =  $contact;
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

}

?>

edited Jan 07 '14 at 11:18

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answered Dec 22 '10 at 08:17

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be aware that you have not include the var for the $headers and also if you put that in the loop it will several times in each mail. – Nrc Feb 03 '20 at 12:21
Unlike the previous responses that send one email to a group, this suggestion will send multiple emails, one to each recipient. Given the ambiguity of the original request, either response could be correct. Note that as @Paul Spiegel pointed out, it is bad form to send group emails in the To field. BCC is preferred. – DanimalReks Sep 22 '20 at 11:01

score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:14

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Something like this:

mail("john@doe.com , marry@mail.com , frank@domain.com", "Test e-mail", "Hi, this is a test message!");

http://myphpform.com/php-form-multiple-recipients.php

answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:14

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score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 15:23

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It is very bad practice to send all email addresses to all recipients; you should use Bcc (blind carbon copies).

    $from = "myname@mymail.com";
    $recipList = "mailaddress1,mailaddress2,etc";
    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\nFrom: {$from}\nBcc: {$recipList}\nDate: ".date(DATE_RFC2822);
    mail(null,$subject,$message,$headers); //send the eail

answered Feb 16 '17 at 15:23

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Bcc does not really hide anything from anyone. All you need to do is look at the headers and you still know all the email addresses – RiggsFolly Aug 26 '20 at 16:27

score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 06 '17 at 13:22

    $recipients = "test1@test.com,test2@test.com,test3@test.com,test1@test.com";
    $email_array = explode(",",$recipients);
    foreach($email_array as $email)
    {
        echo $to      =  $email;
        $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);

    }

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:37

The best way could be to save all the emails in a database.

You can try this code, assuming you have your email in a database

/*Your connection to your database comes here*/
$query="select email from yourtable";
$result =mysql_query($query);

/the above code depends on where you saved your email addresses, so make sure you replace it with your parameters/

Then you can make a comma separated string from the result,

while($row=$result->fetch_array()){
        if($rows=='')    //this prevents from inserting comma on before the first element
        $rows.=$row['email'];
        else
        $rows.=','.$row['email'];
    }

Now you can use

$to = explode(',',$rows); // to change to array

$string =implode(',',$cc); //to get back the string separated by comma

With above code you can send the email like this

mail($string, "Test", "Hi, Happy X-Mas and New Year");

why you you not jsut put the fecthed emails directly into an array and then `implode` just before you call `mail`? — prodigitalson, Dec 22 '10 at 04:42
Yes, That is correct. I am doing same thing twice to show what is going on with in explode() — tkt986, Dec 22 '10 at 12:45

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:16

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In mail function you can as many reciepient as you want in $emailto paramater seperated by comma.

answered Dec 22 '10 at 04:16

XMen

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score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Jul 13 '18 at 16:56

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Try this. It works for me.

$to = $email1 .','. $email2 .','. $email3;

edited Jul 13 '18 at 16:56

JJJ

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answered Jul 13 '18 at 16:39

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score 1 · Answer 11 · edited Dec 10 '19 at 09:28

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This worked for me,

$recipient_email = 'sales@abc.com,support@xyz.com';

$success = mail($recipient_email, $subject, $body, $headers);

edited Dec 10 '19 at 09:28

treyBake

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answered Feb 21 '19 at 20:41

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score 1 · Answer 12 · edited Nov 04 '20 at 18:18

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You can just write multiple email address to whom you want to send and pass it as the first argument. Example:-

mail("FirstEmailId@ABC.com, SecondEmilId@XYZ.com","Subject","Message","From: EmailId@PQR.com");

edited Nov 04 '20 at 18:18

Suraj Rao

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answered Nov 04 '20 at 18:13

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score 0 · Answer 13 · edited Jan 01 '14 at 19:42

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I think the following code will works.

$tos = array('address1@yourdomain.com', 'address2@yourdomain.com');
foreach ($tos as $to){
    $ok = mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from);
}
if ($ok) {
    echo "Message Send";
} else { 
    echo "Error";
}

edited Jan 01 '14 at 19:42

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answered Jul 18 '13 at 08:45

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It's worth noting that this example sends the many copies of the same email... rather than the same email to many recipients. – counterbeing Dec 12 '13 at 21:30
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In this way only the last mail is checked in the `if`. You should put the `if..else` blocks in the loop – Cliff Burton Apr 13 '17 at 11:55

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