catching an array from flash

[andynick]

hey all,
usually I can use Actionscript to work my way through a problem. However, now I'm stuck with php because I need to send an email from a website.

I have everything down pat, i can send an email to any address, even one specified dynamically through flash. but now I'd like the email to have multiple dynamic addressee's. (sp?)

I can get flash to send an array of the different recipients. I just don't know how to get php to take that variable, which right now displays as a list with commas separating the values, to an array where I can pull each one, one by one, and send them an email.

can anyone help? i have this code so far, and it doesn't work....

<?
$ToEmail = "[e-mail]";
$ToName = "Subscriber";
$ToSubject = "arrayCatcher";
$tester = $_GET['myArray'];
$emailBody = $tester[1]
mail($ToEmail, $ToSubject, $emailBody, $ToName);
Print "Complete - Your mail has been sent";
?>

thanks for the help!
andy

[jasonmills58]

Well, if I have a list of addresses in my $addresses array, that look like this:

[e-mail],[e-mail],[e-mail]
(notice no spaces)

Then I can explode the array into individual values like this:

$address = explode("," $addresses);

You give it what to explode it by, and what you're exploding. Then $address[0] = [e-mail] and $address[1] = [e-mail] and $address[2] = [e-mail]

I believe if you're stuck with the comma+space thing in your array, you can explode by that, but I'm not sure. I think it would look like:
explode(", " $addresses)

But don't quote me on that. 😉

cheers,
Jason

[andynick]

thanks! You're a genius.

just 1 more general question... do you know if sending an email via php takes any time to communicate with the pop3 client, or could I make a for loop that fires these suckers off?

thanks again for the help,
andy

[helz]

if your list has spaces aswell as a comma between emails then im pretty sure that you can just replace a space with nothing (ie delete the space)

$addresses = str_replace(" ","",$addresses);
$address = explode("," $addresses);