Hi All,

I have an internal work order page and I am 'trying' to get the CC contacts to be emailed with a foreach but I also want to add the person ordering the work to the array. But the way I would do it with a known amount of IDs would be like this...

$directorid = $_POST['Director']; //the person ordering the work

$_POST['Contacts'] = array();// Make it an array

foreach ($_POST['Contacts'] as $contact) { //Set the elements in the array
	$Contacts0= $contact[0];
	$Contacts1 = $contact[1];
	$Contacts2 = $contact[2];
	$Contacts3 = $contact[3];
   	 }
}

But that will only work if I know how many names will be selected. In this case it may be 0 or up to 6. How would I do that?

And also, I want to 'add' the director id to the list, how can I also do that?

I know it can be done, just lost on where to go from here.

As always, thanks a bunch.

Don

    Well, your description does not jibe with the code sample (at least in my brain), and the code is not going to work anyway since the $_POST['contacts'] = array(); is going to create an empty array.

    What exactly are you starting with? Is $_POST['contacts'] an array?

    What do you want to end up with? A semicolon-separated list of email addresses to use in the "Cc:" header of a mail() command?

      Hi ND,

      Yea, I slapped that together trying to show what I want. I will elaborate.

      I have a function to make the cc checkboxes.

      function makeCheckboxList($name,$list,$selected="") {
  global $x;
    while(list($value,$label) = each($list)) {
	if($value['enabled']=='1') {
 $options .= '<input name="'.$name.'" type="checkbox" value="'.$value.'" tabindex="'.$x.'" checked="checked" />&nbsp;'.$label.'<br />';
} else {
 $options .= '<input name="'.$name.'" type="checkbox" value="'.$value.'" tabindex="'.$x.'" />&nbsp;'.$label.'<br />';
}
 }
 return $options;
}

      And then I define it in my form.

        $x='2'; //tabindex value
$list2 = makeCheckboxList('Contacts[]',$contactname2,$contactname2);
echo $list2;

      And I have a drop down for the Director (person ordering the job) and I want to include this id for my email array (added to the Contacts array above).

      function makeDropList($name,$list,$selected="") {
  // $name       select name
  // $list       array of value, label pair
  // $selected   selected value
  global $x;
  while(list($value,$label) = each($list)) {
    $options .= '<option value="'.$value.'">'.$label.'</option>';
  }
  $dropList = '<select name="'.$name.'" tabindex="'.$x.'">'.$options.'</select>'."\n";
  if($contactname == " ") {
  $dropList = ereg_replace("value=\"$selected\"","value=\"$selected\" selected",$dropList);
  }
  return $dropList;
} 

$x='1'; //tabindex value
$list = makeDropList('Director',$contactname,$contactname);
echo $list;

      Then in my form, I was going to do foreach loop and go thru the names and send an email to each.

      //Open SMTP port to send emails
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);

foreach ($_POST['Contacts'] as $contact) {
		$EmailAddress = $row['ea'];
		$FirstName = $row['fn'];
		$LastName = $row['ln'];
		echo '-->'.$FirstName.' '.$LastName.' '.'at '.$EmailAddress.'<br><br>';
		//Send email to them
			$message = '<html><head></head><body><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is to notify you that Job Order #'.$ID.' has been added/updated. Please check the status <a href="http://www.advisoryzone.org/staff/editjoborder.php?id='.$ID.'">here.</a></font></body></html>';

		$header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
		$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
		$header .= "From: example@example.com\r\n";
		$subject = 'Job Order Notification - '.$displaydate;
		$email_to = $EmailAddress;
		mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header) ;
	}
	fclose($fp); // close ftp port

      This code will not work, but should help make it a little clearer where I am heading with this. Does that make a little more sense?

      I am TOTALLY open to suggestions here, since 'I am but the student and you are the master', to use a known quote. 🙂

      Thanks for the help,

      Don

        OK, so if $POST['Contacts'] is an array, and you have the director as a scalar value in $POST['Director'], all you need to do is:

        $_POST['Contacts'][] = $_POST['Director'];

          Thanks NogDog, it worked perfectly.

          Owe ya one!

          Don

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