Email script problems

[igotdamaged]

Hi there,

I'm pretty new to PHP and at the moment, I'm just about managing to configure other people's scripts for my own purposes.

But I have a problem...

Basically, I have created a "tell a friend" script that people can use to recommend my website to other people. A person fills out an HTML form on my site, which then sends the requested info to my PHP script.

The script works fine, but at the moment it only sends the notification email to one single person.

I want the script to send the notification email not only to the requested person, but also to me (in a similar sort of way to cc'ing someone in on an email)

So my question is: How do I add a second recipient into my script?

At the moment, the script only sends the email to one person (in this case I have called them "$theiremail") I also want to send the message to a second person (called "$cc)

<?
$theirname = $REQUEST['theirname'] ;
$theiremail = $REQUEST['theiremail'] ;
$yourname = $REQUEST['yourname'] ;
$youremail = $REQUEST['youremail'] ;
$message = $REQUEST['message'] ;

$cc = $REQUEST['cc'] ;

if (!isset($_REQUEST['cc'])) {
header( "Location: http://www.imcoolerthanyou.com" );
}
elseif (empty($youremail) || empty($theiremail)) {
header( "Location: error.html" );
}
else {
mail( "$theiremail", "imcoolerthanyou.com",
"Dear $theirname, blah blah blah",
"From: $theirname <$theiremail>" );
header( "Location: thanks.html" );
}
?>

Thanks very much for your help, and apologies if this is rediculously simple, for experienced PHP'ers!

[sfullman]

If you're starting, you'll need to learn about headers. There are five parameters on the mail() function

mail(to, from, subject, body, HEADERS);

the last parameter is written in "RAW" form, and there are oodles of headers you can add to mail messages. The typical one you want to add would be:

mail('[e-mail]', '<Joe Blow> [e-mail]', 'subject', 'body here', 'From: [e-mail]');

But you can als do:

$header.="From: [e-mail]";
$header.="\n\rCC: [e-mail]";
$header.="\n\rBCC: [e-mail]";
mail('[e-mail]', '<Joe Blow> [e-mail]', 'subject', 'body here', $header);

There are some great tutorials on sending HTML emails and attachments, all of which you'll need to learn. If you search for these, you'll learn headers in the process.

However, I would recommend you just send two mail() commands, so that the person sending the link to the friend doesn't feel like they're being snooped on. That's preferable, and improves privacy.

Sam Fullman
Compass POint Media