List Menu - Multiple Select - Email - Question

[listenmirndt]

Hi folks, I am trying to send mail to multiple recipients from a multiple select list menu, works well enough, until it has to send to more then one email address, wonder if anyone could help?

looks somthing like this :

// The Form

<form name="form1" method="post" action="sendmail.php">
<select name="to" size="10" multiple>
<option>[e-mail]</option>
<option>[e-mail]</option>
<option>[e-mail]</option>
<option>[e-mail]</option>
<option>[e-mail]</option>
</select>
</form>

// sendmail.php

<?php

$recip = $_POST['to'];

$to="$recip";
$headers.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-type: text/html; ";
$headers.= "charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers.= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]";

$subject = "Some Subject";
$body = "Some Message";

$send_check=mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
if ($send_check!=true)
{
echo 'An error occurred while sending mail.';
die();
}

?>

Thanks in advance

[lilleman]

First you must change the name of your select box so that the selected items will end up in an array.

<select name="to[]" size="10" multiple>

Now there are two ways of doing this. You can either use a loop and call mail() one time for every chosen email or you can use the BCC or CC header.

Here is the version with the loop:

<?php

$recip = $_POST['to'];

foreach($recip as $email) {
  $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $headers.= "Content-type: text/html; ";
  $headers.= "charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  $headers.= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]";

  $subject = "Some Subject";
  $body = "Some Message";

  $send_check=mail($email,$subject,$body,$headers);
  if ($send_check!=true) {
    die('An error occurred while sending mail.');
  }
}

?> 

This solution will work nicely as long as you're not sending emails to too many persons. If you're gonna send a lot of mails at a time then I recommend using the BCC header. This code will send an email to your email and a blind carbon copy to all the other specified emails.

<?php

$recip = $_POST['to'];
$to = "[e-mail]";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-type: text/html; ";
$headers.= "charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers.= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]";

foreach($recip as $rec) {
  $headers .= "Bcc: $rec\r\n";
}

$subject = "Some Subject";
$body = "Some Message";

$send_check=mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
if ($send_check!=true) {
  die('An error occurred while sending mail.');
}

?> 

I havent tested the codes above so let me know if it doesn't work.

[listenmirndt]

Thanks a bunch!
That works realy skippy =D