Send a mail to multiple recipients in codeigniter

Question

In my controller there is a code for sending email to one recipient, But I want to send mail to multiple recipients. Not use cc,bcc or direct assignment. I want to enter comma separated mail ids through the front end

how to take each mail id in comma separated form?

Controller:

public function shopshare($userid,$shopname,$shop_id)
{
    $from_email=$this->input->post('from_email');
    $to_email=$this->input->post('to_email');
    $subject_url=$this->input->post('url');
    $message=$this->input->post('message');
    $this->email->from($from_email);
    $this->email->to($to_email); 
    $this->email->subject($url);
    $this->email->message($message);    
    $this->email->send();

    redirect(base_url().'shop/shopDetail/'.$shop_id.'/'.$shopname);
}

View:

<label>
    <span>To:</span>
    <input id="to_email" type="text" name="to_email[]" placeholder="To Email Address">
</label>

Answer 1

You can use array of recipients, or if they stored in database you can retrieve and store all again in array and than implode them by ','.

for example if you create array or get array result from database,

 $recipients = Array('[email protected]','[email protected]''[email protected]');

     this->email->to(implode(', ', $recipients));

Or also can give multiple emails as it is

this->email->to('[email protected]','[email protected]''[email protected]');

This will send you multiple mail.

EDIT as per Robins Comment

as you comment that you want to have multiple entry from front-end text box,

if it is a single text box you can ask user to have multiple email by ',' separate.

 $mails = $this->input->post('email');

 this->email->to($mails);

if you have multiple text boxes give all text boxes same name like 'email[]'

 $mails = $this->input->post('email');

 this->email->to(implode(', ', $mails));

Answer 2

You can do it this way $this->email->to('[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]');

You can also pass an array of email addresses Like

$list = array('[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]');


$this->email->to($list);

Answer 3

See this answer of stackoverflow.

public function shopshare($userid, $shopname, $shop_id) {

    $from_email = $this->input->post('from_email');
    $to_email = $this->input->post('to_email');
    foreach ($to_email as $key => $value) {
        $subject_url = $this->input->post('url');
        $message = $this->input->post('message');
        $this->email->from($from_email);
        $this->email->to($value);
        $this->email->subject($url);
        $this->email->message($message);
        $this->email->send();

        $this->email->clear();
    }
    redirect(base_url() . 'shop/shopDetail/' . $shop_id . '/' . $shopname);
}

As per above code you need to foreach with email clear then your code work proper .

Answer 4

View

<input id="to_email" type="text" name="to_email[]" placeholder="To Email Address">
<input id="to_email1" type="text" name="to_email[]" placeholder="To Email Address">
<input id="to_email2" type="text" name="to_email[]" placeholder="To Email Address">

Controller

public function shopshare($userid,$shopname,$shop_id)
    {

        $from_email=$this->input->post('from_email');
        $to_email = implode(',',$this->input->get_post('to_email'));
        $subject_url=$this->input->post('url');
        $message=$this->input->post('message');
        $this->email->from($from_email);
        $this->email->to($to_email); 
        $this->email->subject($url);
        $this->email->message($message);    
        $this->email->send();

        redirect(base_url().'shop/shopDetail/'.$shop_id.'/'.$shopname);
    }

For single Text box

<input id="to_email" type="text" name="to_email" placeholder="To Email Address">

Controller

public function shopshare($userid,$shopname,$shop_id) {

        $from_email=$this->input->post('from_email');
        $to_email = $this->input->get_post('to_email');
        $subject_url=$this->input->post('url');
        $message=$this->input->post('message');
        $this->email->from($from_email);
        $this->email->to($to_email); 
        $this->email->subject($url);
        $this->email->message($message);    
        $this->email->send();

        redirect(base_url().'shop/shopDetail/'.$shop_id.'/'.$shopname);
    }

You can use valid_email() for email validation http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/email_helper.html

Answer 5

I got answer using the code below

    public function shopshare($userid, $shopname, $shop_id)
    {
         $from_email = $this->input->post('from_email');
         $to_email = $this->input->post('to_email');
         $to_mail = explode(',', $to_email);
         $mail_count= count($to_mail);
         for($i=0;$i<$mail_count;$i++)
         {
             $mail_id = TRIM($to_mail[$i]);
             $subject_url = $this->input->post('url');
             $message = $this->input->post('message');
             $this->email->from($from_email);
             $this->email->to($mail_id);
             $this->email->subject($url);
             $this->email->message($message);
             $this->email->send();
             $this->email->clear();
        }
        redirect(base_url() . 'shop/shopDetail/' . $shop_id . '/' . $shopname);
    }