Help with email array

jratzo

Hi everyone, I'm creating a form that depending on what is selected from a drop down specific people get emailed. I can do this without a problem if each drop down is set to only go to one email address. Once I start adding an array to the array is where I get lost.
This is my working example

$to = $_REQUEST['category'];
$headers = "From: customerservices@example.com"; 
$subject = "TestArray"; 
$body = "The following information has been submitted:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){ $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); } 
$category = array(

'Donor Application' => 'customerservices@example.com', 
'eBridge Related' => 'customerservices@example.com', 
'Hitsheet Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Add/Remove Employee' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Operations' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'eMail Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Phone Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Printing Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Remote Access' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'RESource Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'SharePoint Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Solomon Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'UltiPro Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'USS Related' => 'customerservices@example.com',
'Other' => 'customerservices@example.com',




);
$my_email = $category[$_REQUEST['category']];

$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);

When I add an array in the array I don't know how to email, for example

$category = array(

'Donor Application' => array('customerservices@example.com','administrator@example.com')
'eBridge Related' => array('customerservices@example.com','test@example.com')

);

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

dagon

crude, but should work:

if(count($my_email)>1){
$my_email=implode(',',$my_email); 
$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}else{
$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}

jratzo

dagon;10973194 wrote:

crude, but should work:

if(count($my_email)>1){
$my_email=implode(',',$my_email); 
$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}else{
$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}

Doesn't seem to work, here is my code...

$to = $_REQUEST['category'];
$headers = "From: customerservices@example.com"; 
$subject = "TestArray"; 
$body = "The following information has been submitted:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){ $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); } 
$category = array(

'test' => array('test@example.com','test2@example.com')

);

if(count($my_email)>1){ 
$my_email=implode(',',$my_email); 
$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers); 
}else{ 
$send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers); 
}

anakadote

You need to replace $my_email with $category['test'] in your example.

Should be:

$my_email = $category['test'];
if(count($my_email)>1){
  $my_email=implode(',',$my_email);
  $send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}else{
  $send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}

dagon

anakadote is right, on a side note if your doing anything 'advanced' with sending email stop using mail(), and shift to one of the mail libraries, mail() is very underpowered.

jratzo

anakadote;10973205 wrote:
You need to replace $my_email with $category['test'] in your example.

Should be:
$my_email = $category['test'];
if(count($my_email)>1){
  $my_email=implode(',',$my_email);
  $send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
}else{
  $send = mail($my_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
} 

This worked but the email was sent 3 times. Also this only looks like it would work with just the one test in the category array. Say I have test,test1,test2-10 in the category array, how would that work? Would I need multiple if else's?

jratzo

dagon;10973208 wrote:
anakadote is right, on a side note if your doing anything 'advanced' with sending email stop using mail(), and shift to one of the mail libraries, mail() is very underpowered.

I don't think I'm doing anything advanced. Just a simple form thats going to have a bunch of fields that need to be in the body of the email. Not even going to make it an HTML email.

anakadote

This worked but the email was sent 3 times.

It should have sent one email to test@ and one to test2@. Maybe your updated code (with actual email addresses) is incorrect.

Also this only looks like it would work with just the one test in the category array. Say I have test,test1,test2-10 in the category array, how would that work? Would I need multiple if else's?

foreach($category as $emails){
  if(is_array($emails)){
    $email_str = implode(',', $emails);
    $send = mail($email_str, $subject, $body, $headers);
  } else {
    $send = mail($emails, $subject, $body, $headers);
  }
}

jratzo

anakadote;10973232 wrote:
It should have sent one email to test@ and one to test2@. Maybe your updated code (with actual email addresses) is incorrect.
foreach($category as $emails){
  if(is_array($emails)){
    $email_str = implode(',', $emails);
    $send = mail($email_str, $subject, $body, $headers);
  } else {
    $send = mail($emails, $subject, $body, $headers);
  }
}

This works! but it sends it 6 times to each address in the array...

The only thing I changed in the code is the actual email addresses

$to = $_REQUEST['category'];
$headers = "From: helpdesk@example.com"; 
$subject = "TestArray"; 
$body = "The following information has been submitted:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){ $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); } 
$category = array(

'test' => array('jracz@example.com','administrator@example.com'),
'test2' => array('administrator@example.com','jracz@example.com')

);

foreach($category as $emails){ 
  if(is_array($emails)){ 
    $email_str = implode(',', $emails); 
    $send = mail($email_str, $subject, $body, $headers); 
  } else { 
    $send = mail($emails, $subject, $body, $headers); 
  } 
}

Thats my code now with the only difference being I change the domain name. Let me know if you see anything wrong there.

Thanks as always for your help

anakadote

This works! but it sends it 6 times to each address in the array...

It must be something else. Do you have a loop around all this code?

jratzo

anakadote;10973235 wrote:
It must be something else. Do you have a loop around all this code?

I agree everything looks right, I'm actually understanding what you wrote. That is all my code, I haven't built the rest till I get this working. The only thing around what I posted is
<?php

And the HTML is the same as posted above

jratzo

jratzo;10973236 wrote:
I agree everything looks right, I'm actually understanding what you wrote. That is all my code, I haven't built the rest till I get this working. The only thing around what I posted is
<?php

?>

And the HTML is the same as posted above

Never posted my html
[HTML>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="test" action="helpdesk.php" method="POST">
<div align="center">
<select name="category">
<option selected>Please Select Appropriate Description</option>
<option value="Donor Application">Donor Application</option>
<option value="eBridge Related">eBridge Related</option>
<option value="Hitsheet Related">Hitsheet Related</option>
<option value="Add/Remove Employee">Add/Remove Employee (Only HR can choose this)</option>
<option value="Operations">Operations (Anything to do with the building, not computers)</option>
<option value="eMail Related">Outlook Related</option>
<option value="Phone Related">Phone Related</option>
<option value="Printing Related">Printing Related</option>
<option value="Remote Access">Remote Access</option>
<option value="RESource Related">RESource Related</option>
<option value="SharePoint Related">Sharepoint Related</option>
<option value="Solomon Related">Solomon Related</option>
<option value="UltiPro Related">UltiPro Related</option>
<option value="USS Related">USS Related</option>
<option value="Other">Other</option>
<option value="Test">Test</option>
<option value="Test2">Test2</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
[/code]

Not doing the UI yet either just want this part working first

jratzo

jratzo;10973236 wrote:
I agree everything looks right, I'm actually understanding what you wrote. That is all my code, I haven't built the rest till I get this working. The only thing around what I posted is
<?php

?>

And the HTML is the same as posted above

got it working!

foreach($category[$_REQUEST['category']] as $emails){ 
  if(is_array($emails)){ 
    $email_str = implode(',', $emails); 
    $send = mail($email_str, $subject, $body, $headers); 
  } else { 
    $send = mail($emails, $subject, $body, $headers); 
  } 
}

jratzo

jratzo;10973238 wrote:

got it working!

foreach($category[$_REQUEST['category']] as $emails){ 
  if(is_array($emails)){ 
    $email_str = implode(',', $emails); 
    $send = mail($email_str, $subject, $body, $headers); 
  } else { 
    $send = mail($emails, $subject, $body, $headers); 
  } 
}

Before it was sending to everyone in the array where you can see everyone in the TO: field. Now its sending individually. I'd like everyone to be in the TO: Field so everyone can reply all. Is there a way to do this?

jratzo

jratzo;10973239 wrote:
Before it was sending to everyone in the array where you can see everyone in the TO: field. Now its sending individually. I'd like everyone to be in the TO: Field so everyone can reply all. Is there a way to do this?

I got it to work, this sends it out only once and in the header I have it Bccing the user who sends teh request. It also allows it to send to one email address if its not in an array in the category array

if(is_array($category[$_REQUEST['category']])){
    $email_str = implode(',', $category[$_REQUEST['category']]); 
    $send = mail($email_str, $subject, $message, $headers); 
    } else { 
	$email = $category[$_REQUEST['category']];
    $send = mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers); 
  }