Using Formmail.php and trying to select multiple recipients

[Maggie Blue]

Hi! Total "newbie to programming" here.

I'm using Jack's Formmail.php, code at:

http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/source_view.php?path=formmail_code/formmail.phps

and I'm trying to figure out how I can have it send an identical message to
more than one recipient, based on a checkbox selected by the user who
submits the form.


<input type="checkbox" name="email1" value="recipien t1" />Recipient 1
<input type="checkbox" name="email2" value="recipien t2" />Recipient 2
<input type="checkbox" name="email3" value="recipien t3" />Recipient 3

where "recipient[n]" is stored in the script:

"recipient1 " = "email1@email.c om"
"recipient2 " = "email2@email.c om"
"recipient3 " = "email3@email.c om"

If the user checks recipient1 AND recipient3, it would send the message to
both of the above e-mail addresses.

Is there a script out there that could do this better?
Any help you can give me would be very helpful!

Thanks so much,
Maggie

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Using Formmail.php and trying to select multiple recipients

I noticed that Message-ID:
<6hrje.2222$5Z1 .1980@newssvr30 .news.prodigy.c om> from Maggie Blue
contained the following:
[color=blue]
><input type="checkbox" name="email1" value="recipien t1" />Recipient 1
><input type="checkbox" name="email2" value="recipien t2" />Recipient 2
><input type="checkbox" name="email3" value="recipien t3" />Recipient 3
>
>where "recipient[n]" is stored in the script:
>
>"recipient1 " = "email1@email.c om"
>"recipient2 " = "email2@email.c om"
>"recipient3 " = "email3@email.c om"[/color]

Give the checkboxes the same name
<input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="recipien t1" />Recipient 1
<input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="recipien t2" />Recipient 2
<input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="recipien t3" />Recipient 3

then

$mailto=implode (",",$_POST['email'] );


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[Daniel Tryba]

Re: Using Formmail.php and trying to select multiple recipients

Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>><input type="checkbox" name="email1" value="recipien t1" />Recipient 1
>><input type="checkbox" name="email2" value="recipien t2" />Recipient 2
>><input type="checkbox" name="email3" value="recipien t3" />Recipient 3
>>
>>where "recipient[n]" is stored in the script:
>>
>>"recipient1 " = "email1@email.c om"
>>"recipient2 " = "email2@email.c om"
>>"recipient3 " = "email3@email.c om"[/color]
>
> Give the checkboxes the same name
> <input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="recipien t1" />Recipient 1
> <input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="recipien t2" />Recipient 2
> <input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="recipien t3" />Recipient 3
>
> then
>
> $mailto=implode (",",$_POST['email'] );[/color]

Close but not complete since $_POST['email'] doesn't (and certainly
shouldn't) contain the emailadresses.

To compare the _values_ of $_POST['email'] with the _keys_ in
$recipient:

<input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="0" />Recipient 0
....
<input type="checkbox" name="email[]" value="N" />Recipient N

$recipient[]="email1@exampl e.com"
....
$recipient[]="emailn@exampl e.com"

$mailto="";
foreach(array_i ntersect(array_ keys($recipient ),array_values( $_POST['email']))
as $val)
{
$mailto.=$recip ient[$val].',';
}
$mailto=trim($m ailto,',');

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Using Formmail.php and trying to select multiple recipients

I noticed that Message-ID: <428e8cca$0$954 38$c5fe704e@new s6.xs4all.nl>
from Daniel Tryba contained the following:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> $mailto=implode (",",$_POST['email'] );[/color]
>
>Close but not complete since $_POST['email'] doesn't (and certainly
>shouldn't) contain the emailadresses.[/color]


It was late, I was in a hurry...and you have to leave some challenge for
the OP. <g>
--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[Maggie Blue]

Re: Using Formmail.php and trying to select multiple recipients


"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote in message
news:t2ku81d7sj t1vipr86phmm7ei 3hn45inhu@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> I noticed that Message-ID: <428e8cca$0$954 38$c5fe704e@new s6.xs4all.nl>
> from Daniel Tryba contained the following:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> $mailto=implode (",",$_POST['email'] );[/color]
> >
> >Close but not complete since $_POST['email'] doesn't (and certainly
> >shouldn't) contain the emailadresses.[/color]
>
>
> It was late, I was in a hurry...and you have to leave some challenge for
> the OP. <g>
> --
> Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
> It's only Usenet, no one dies.
> My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
> Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/[/color]

Ooo! How mean! Especially since the OP doesn't know how to read any of that
stuff!
Thanks, everyone; I'll try it out this morning.
-- Maggie Blue