[SOLVED] Send multiple emails based on checkboxes

[karenn1]

Hi guys,

 

I have a form on an HTML page with three checkboxes like this:

 

<input name="area" type="checkbox" id="area" value="Tyger Valley">Tyger Valley<br>
<input name="area" type="checkbox" id="area" value="Century City">Century City<br>
<input name="area" type="checkbox" id="area" value="Cape Town CBD">Cape Town CBD<br>

 

The idea is for a user to select one or more areas of interest and then a mail gets sent to the applicable parties:

 

ie. Tygervalley - tygervalley@mysite.com

Century City - cc@mysite.com, etc

 

My PHP code looks like this:

 

if ($_POST['area'] == "Tyger Valley"){	
$headers2  = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers2 .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
mail("tygervalley@mysite.com", "Cosmoprop :: Small Serviced Offices :: Submission Confirmation :: Tyger Valley", $msg2, $headers);			
}		

if ($_POST['area'] == "Century City"){	
$headers2  = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers2 .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
mail("cc@mysite.com", "Cosmoprop :: Small Serviced Offices :: Submission Confirmation :: Tyger Valley", $msg2, $headers);						
}	

if ($_POST['area'] == "Cape Town CBD"){	
$headers2  = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers2 .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
mail("capetown@mysite.com", "Cosmoprop :: Small Serviced Offices :: Submission Confirmation :: Tyger Valley", $msg2, $headers);						
}

 

When selecting one checkbox, it sends the email fine but if I select more than one, it only sends the email to the last checked box. How can I set it that the code reads all three boxes and send to all three addresses if they are all selected?

 

 

 

Thanks!

Karen

 

[Guest Xanza]

Use a loop to check if each one exists. If it does, include it in the mail.

 

[thebadbad]

You should put a set of square brackets at the end of the checkboxes names, in order to get the checked values in an array (else you'll only get the last checked value):

 

<input name="area[]" type="checkbox" id="area" value="Tyger Valley">Tyger Valley<br>
<input name="area[]" type="checkbox" id="area" value="Century City">Century City<br>
<input name="area[]" type="checkbox" id="area" value="Cape Town CBD">Cape Town CBD<br>

 

Then loop through the array, and send the mails:

 

<?php
$mails = array(
'tygervalley@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'cc@mysite.com' => 'Century City',
'capetown@mysite.com' => 'Cape Town CBD'
);
foreach ($_POST['area'] as $value) {
//if the checkbox value is found in the array above, send a mail to the corresponding address
if (in_array($value, $mails)) {
	mail(key($_POST['area']), "Cosmoprop :: Small Serviced Offices :: Submission Confirmation :: $value", $msg2, $headers);
}
}
?>

[karenn1]

thebadbad,

 

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it! I copied in your coding but it's not really working. When I fill out the form, no emails come through after selecting two checkboxes.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Karen

[thebadbad]

Oh, found out I had a mistake. This should work (using array_search() in stead of key()):

 

<?php
$mails = array(
'tygervalley@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'cc@mysite.com' => 'Century City',
'capetown@mysite.com' => 'Cape Town CBD'
);
foreach ($_POST['area'] as $value) {
//if the checkbox value is found in the array above, send a mail to the corresponding address
if (in_array($value, $mails)) {
	mail(array_search($value, $mails), "Cosmoprop :: Small Serviced Offices :: Submission Confirmation :: $value", $msg2, $headers);
}
}
?>

[karenn1]

It's working 100% now thanks. Another question, in the email that's sent, I used $_POST['area'] to get the area name in the email. This now returns "Array". How can I get the actual value? I tried $value but that didn't work. Comes out blank.

 

 

Thanks!

Karen

[thebadbad]

Great. Where do you want to access the name? In the actual message? 'Cause then you'll need to move the definition of the message inside the foreach loop. There, $value does return the name. Like:

 

<?php
$mails = array(
'tygervalley@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'cc@mysite.com' => 'Century City',
'capetown@mysite.com' => 'Cape Town CBD'
);
foreach ($_POST['area'] as $value) {
//if the checkbox value is found in the array above, send a mail to the corresponding address
if (in_array($value, $mails)) {
	//define message variable
	$msg2 = "This is the email body. Here goes the area name: $value.";
	mail(array_search($value, $mails), "Cosmoprop :: Small Serviced Offices :: Submission Confirmation :: $value", $msg2, $headers);
}
}
?>

 

You send the same message to each address, right (except for the instances of the area name, of course)?

[karenn1]

Hey everyone,

 

I've used the coding above as thebadbad helped me with. This is what it looks like:

 

$mails = array(
'tv@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',	
'cc@mysite.com' => 'Century City',	
'cbd@mysite.com' => 'Cape Town CBD',
'ss@mysite.com'  => 'Southern Suburbs'	
);
foreach ($_POST['area'] as $value) {
//if the checkbox value is found in the array above, send a mail to the corresponding address
if (in_array($value, $mails)) {
	mail(array_search($value, $mails), "Small Serviced Offices :: Enquiry for $value", $msg2, $headers);
}
}

 

This works 100%. My only question, is how can I have two email addresses to go to Tyger Valley? I've tried the following:

 

 

'tv@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'tv2@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'cc@mysite.com' => 'Century City',	
'cbd@mysite.com' => 'Cape Town CBD',
'ss@mysite.com'  => 'Southern Suburbs'

 

but the second email doesn't come through. Can anybody please help me with this?

 

[thebadbad]

Hi again. It's not working because array_search() only returns the first key (mail address) to the matching searched value (name). To return multiple mails matching the same name, use array_keys():

 

<?php
$mails = array(
'tv@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'tv2@mysite.com' => 'Tyger Valley',
'cc@mysite.com' => 'Century City',
'cbd@mysite.com' => 'Cape Town CBD',
'ss@mysite.com'  => 'Southern Suburbs'
);
foreach ($_POST['area'] as $value) {
//if the checkbox value is found in the array above, send a mail to the corresponding address
if (in_array($value, $mails)) {
	//retrieve one or more addresses matching the found value, from the mails array
	$addrs = array_keys($mails, $value);
	//send mail to every address found above
	foreach ($addrs as $addr) {
		mail($addr, "Small Serviced Offices :: Enquiry for $value", $msg2, $headers);
	}
}
}
?>

[karenn1]

Hi badbad,

 

Thanks! It works 100%. You're a star!!

 

 

 

 

Karen