How to Add a CC E-mail Address with PHPMailer

I’ve moved to the fantastic PHPMailer PHP class to handle all my e-mail send outs for my projects and have thus far been quite impressed by the ease-of-use and robustness of the class.

Today’s code snippet will show you just how easy it is to add CC (“carbon copy” or “courtesy copy” depending in what era you were born!) e-mail addresses to a e-mail send out, thus saving computing time by pushing out a single mail send instead of a number of separate ones for each attached address (well technically, we’re just foisting all the work onto the SMTP server, but still, less work that the web server needs to do, i.e. a win for us!).

In code:

//create the mail class and fill in all the required settings
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.server.net";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "username@domain.com";
$mail->Password = "password1";
$mail->From = "username@domain.com";
$mail->FromName = "Software Simian";
$mail->AddAddress("targetguy@domain.com", "Target Guy");
$mail->AddReplyTo("username@domain.com", "Software Simian");
$mail->Subject = "Subject";
$mail->Body = "Message";
$mail->AltBody = strip_tags("Message:);
 
//and now for the actual bit of adding multiple CC e-mail addresses
$mail->AddCC("extra-address1@domain.com");
$mail->AddCC("extra-address2@domain.com");
$mail->AddCC("extra-address3@domain.com");
 
//and send. Now was that not easy?
if(!$mail->Send()){
    $resultstatus = 'Failed';
}

The code above will result in a mail being sent out to four addresses instead of just the main specified address.

Nifty.