[PHP] Multiple mails to be sent from checkbox selection
Hi there. Could someone please let me know what is the best way to send multiple mails to different users collected from a checkbox on the previous page. There is a page that displays all the available recipients. A users then selects which recipients he wants to receive the mail. Then the next page should process this and send the mail off. I am not sure how I should me sending the checkbox name and variables and then how to actually insert the email addresses using the mail command. Is there a better way than using a checkbox? Thanks Kevin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Multiple mails to be sent from checkbox selection
Hi, I am not sure how I should me sending the checkbox name and variables and then how to actually insert the email addresses using the mail command. Is there a better way than using a checkbox? If you have a HTML form with a list of email addresses to send to you might want the code to look something like: input type='checkbox' name='sendTo[]' value='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' / User 1br / input type='checkbox' name='sendTo[]' value='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' / User 2br / input type='checkbox' name='sendTo[]' value='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' / User 3br / Now in the resulting PHP code (assuming that you're using = PHP v4.1.x and using METHOD=get in the form) you should find $_GET['sendTo'] is an array of email addresses they ticked. Just add them as mail headers (you can find simple instructions on the http://www.php.net/mail page in the user comments). If METHOD=post then use $_POST, and if an old version of PHP is being used then use $HTTP_POST_VARS / $HTTP_GET_VARS. -- Dan Hardiker [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ADAM Software Systems Engineer First Creative Ltd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Multiple mails to be sent from checkbox selection
Checkboxes are an easy way to do it. The value of a checkbox will only be sent if it's checked. If it's not checked, then that variable isn't even created. So the easiest way to do it is to use the email address as the value, and name the checkboxes all the same name with an [] to make it an array. input type=checkbox value='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' name='emails[]' input type=checkbox value='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' name='emails[]' Then, on the page that processes this form, you'll have an $emails[] array that'll contain all of your email addresses to send to. So you just do this: $email_string = implode(;,$emails); mail($email_string,$subject,$message); If you can't pass the email addreses, directly, then you'll have to pass an ID that relates to the email addresses. Name your checkboxes as ID[] or something similar, and then you'll have an array of IDs to send the email to. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Kevin Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: [PHP] Multiple mails to be sent from checkbox selection Hi there. Could someone please let me know what is the best way to send multiple mails to different users collected from a checkbox on the previous page. There is a page that displays all the available recipients. A users then selects which recipients he wants to receive the mail. Then the next page should process this and send the mail off. I am not sure how I should me sending the checkbox name and variables and then how to actually insert the email addresses using the mail command. Is there a better way than using a checkbox? Thanks Kevin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
