[Resolved] Checkboxes and Multiple Emails

[geogal]

Hi All. Can someone please help me? All I want to do is loop through selected checkboxes and, based on what is checked, fire off emails to the appropriate person.

I am pretty slow at understanding arrays. I thought I could do something like:

FORM

<input type="checkbox" name=special[] value="4A Spanish">4A Spanish

<input type="checkbox" name=special[] value="4B Spanish">4B Spanish

etc.

PHP

foreach($_POST["special"] as $value) {
if (in_array("4A Spanish", $special)) {
$send="[e-mail]";
}
if (in_array("4B Spanish", $special)) {
$send="[e-mail]";
}
}

// EMAIL CORRECT PERSON

mail( "$send",
"Signup",

$message = "Specialist Class(es):",

"From: $email" );

Sorry if this is a lame post, I just can get my mind around this one.
🙁

[ljschrenk]

Will this work instead?

foreach($_POST["special"] as $value) {
switch($value){
case "4A Spanish":
$send = "[e-mail]";
break;
case "4B Spanish":
$send = "[e-mail]";
break;

}

mail( "$send", "Signup", $message = "Specialist Class(es):", "From: $email" );

}

Since it's checkboxes you might want to run the mail code in the foreach incase they check more than one box, just an idea though.

[drew010]

to shorten the code, depending on how many people you plan to be able to email, i did something like this:

<?php
$addrs = array("4A Spanish" => "[e-mail]", "4B Spanish" => "[e-mail]", "1A English" => "[e-mail]",
               "1B English" => "[e-mail]", "50 Russian" => "[e-mail]");

foreach($_POST['special'] as $one) {
  mail($addrs[$one], "Subject", "Message", "From: [email][e-mail][/email]");
}

?>

that way you dont need to add a case to a switch or another else if to an if statement every time you add a person, just put them in the array.

[geogal]

Thank you both so much for the fast response. I got the code to work using both, putting the mail code inside the foreach loop. THANK YOU!!!