Ok, so per RamRaider, i've included the entire function. I'm always worried I'll end up mismatching a variable or including a typo when I make it more generic, so hopefully none of those errors.
function my_custom_popular_posts_html_list( $mostpopular, $instance ){
$output = 'https://startofwebaddress';
$weekday = date("N")-1;
$excerpt = '';
$popularPost = get_post($mostpopular[$weekday]->id);
$popularPostUrl = get_permalink( $popularPost->ID );
$featuredImgUrl = get_the_post_thumbnail_url($popularPost->ID, 'full');
$popularPostTitle = esc_html( get_the_title($popularPost) );
$popularProduct = wc_get_product( $popularPost );
$popularProductLowPrice = $popularProduct->get_price();
$excerpt = get_keywords_by_id( $mostpopular[$weekday]->id ); //most popular = 0, 2nd most = 1, 3rd most = 2, etc.
$initial = array("oldterms");
$replace = array("newterms");
$excerpt = preg_replace($initial,$replace,$excerpt);
$commonName = str_replace("+"," ",$excerpt);
$output .= $excerpt;
$output .= 'endofwebaddress';
//Get Key for second input
$First_url = $output;
$xml = new DOMDocument();
$ch = curl_init ($First_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);//return xml
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);//ignore
$xml->loadXML(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close ($ch);
$TagName1 = $xml->getElementsByTagName('TagName1')->item(0)->nodeValue;
//Email URL
$EmailURL = "urlthatneeds&TagName1=";
$EmailURL .= $TagName1;
$EmailURL .= "restofurl";
$text=file_get_contents($EmailURL);
$res = preg_match_all(
"/[a-z0-9]+[_a-z0-9.-]*[a-z0-9]+@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z]{2,4})/i",
$text,
$matches
);
session_start();
foreach(array_unique($matches[0]) as $email) {
$url = 'https://api.sendgrid.com/';
$user = 'user';
$pass = 'password';
$json_string = array(
'to' => $email,
'category' => 'most_popular',
'asm_group_id' => '1141',
);
}
$params = array(
'api_user' => $user,
'api_key' => $pass,
'x-smtpapi' => json_encode($json_string),
'to' => 'example3@sendgrid.com', //This should be ignored
'subject' => $commonName . ' Detailed Protocols and Products.',
'html' => 'A whole ton of HTML',
'text' => 'Text Version of HTML',
'from' => 'me@mail.com',
);
$request = $url.'api/mail.send.json';
// Generate curl request
$session = curl_init($request);
// Tell curl to use HTTP POST
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
// Tell curl that this is the body of the POST
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
// Tell curl not to return headers, but do return the response
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// Tell PHP not to use SSLv3 (instead opting for TLS)
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_2);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// obtain response
$response = curl_exec($session);
curl_close($session);
// print everything out
print_r($response);
}
add_filter( 'wpp_custom_html', 'my_custom_popular_posts_html_list', 10, 2 );
function get_keywords_by_id( $post_id ){
// Get post data
$the_post = get_post( $post_id );
// Get post_content
$the_post_id = $the_post -> post_title;
return $the_post_id;
}
Hopefully I can simplify the problem. $EmailUrl contains a string with all of the email addresses. I parse it with the regex in the code to get all the email addresses out, and those are output in an array.
Per RichGoldMD (thanks for the suggestions), I moved session_start() outside of the loop, and eliminated extra variables to pass email directly. When doing so, the function just sends an email to example3@sendgrid.com. Again, if I take the first 'to' attribute and change it from the variable, to a comma separated list, I get emails sent to the comma separated list. However, when I try to input the array variable, or if I try to massage the array variable into a comma separated list (which was kind of what I previously had up), then I get just an email to example3@sendgrid.com. If I change the first 'to' attribute to [$email, 'myemail@mail.com'], I get an email sent to myemail@mail.com and an email sent to the last email in the array, but no email sends to the other ~1500 email addresses.
Hopefully this makes a little more sense and sorry for the lack of context. Let me know if more info would make this useful. I'm also happy to make this a little more generic if it would make it more useful for other people.
Thanks!