Checkbox Mailer HELP!!!!

[dandaman2007]

Hi guys,

Ive got this problem and i have no idea how to fix it. Ive been trying to do it in PERL, but thats not my strong point, and i know a lot more PHP than perl. But still dont know enough to try and achive what i want to do.

Basically i am trying to have a web form in which the company fills out the form and can select which people to send the form to.

http://www.ekayadvertising.com/Intranet/Request_Forms/Print_Form/Print_Form.html

Above is the example form.

So the form will ONLY be sent to those that checkboxes have been ticked...... Also it would be great if i could have a CC or a BCC option too, so the similar effect, when someone gets CC'ed in on an e-mail the other CC or BCC options that arnt ticked dont get CC'ed in on the E-mail.

Hope i am making sense, if anyone could clear this up for me i will love you for ever.

Thanks again

Danny

[drew010]

when a box is unchecked its value is not sent so to determine which ones were checked, use

$cc = array();
if (isset($_POST['mail1'])) { // send to Danny
  $cc[] = $_POST['mail1'];
}

$cc = implode(',' $cc);

with that sample code there you will want to remove the , from in front of your email addresses in the form code.

[Weedpacket]

If you've got an array of the checkbox values you sent out to make the form, you get a list of those that weren't checked by taking that array and using array_diff() to subtract the array of checkbox values that were.

drew010, you're not here often enough. 🙂

[dandaman2007]

Sorry guys,

Still dont understand what to do!!!

Could you maybe post a full example or something??? im not expert at these things like you guys.

Thanks again for your help though!

[kylocke]

There are a few solutions to this. I can offer you one.

When you submit the form and get all of your values, check for the checkbox values.

One way of doing this is saying:

$mail1 = ($_POST['mail1'] == 1) ? 1 : 0;

This is shorthand for:

$mail1 = $_POST['mail1];
if ($mail1 != 1)
  $mail1 == 0;

Once you have that you can check who should be getting the e-mail.

Assuming you are using the mail() function to send the e-mail out to those checked, you can do the following:

$body .= "Message Body";

//Set the headers to reflect what you are using		  

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

//optional
$headers .= "Reply-To: No Reply <[e-mail]>\r\n";

//You need to do some checking to make sure you have commas where they 
//belong that is not included in this code.
$to = "";
if ($mail1 == 1)
 $to .= "[insert mail1 email address"];
if ($mail2 == 1)
 $to .= ", [insert mail2 email address"];
ETC.
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

To add CC and BCC information, in the $header, you can add a line of CC: or BCC: and add the addresses to that.

Hope that helps.