Emailing Multiple Email Addresses

6 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: October 6, 2014   (RSS)

By nmsinc - October 2, 2014

I have a need to mail multiple email address and having some problems - any suggestions would be appreciated:

Thanks - nmsinc

$allemails = ray@abc.com; kim@abccom.com; bill@abccom.com;
 
                      $mailArray99 = array( 
                      'to'      => $allemails,
                      'from'    => $CURRENT_USER['email'],
                      'subject' => $_REQUEST['subject'],
                      'html'    => $content 
                      ); 
                      $mailErrors99   = sendMessage($mailArray99);
                      if ($mailErrors99) {die("Mail Error #99: $mailErrors99"); }


nmsinc

By claire - October 2, 2014

Emails should be in quotes and comma separated, like so:

$allemails = "ray@abc.com, kim@abccom.com, bill@abccom.com";
 
                      $mailArray99 = array( 
                      'to'      => $allemails,
                      'from'    => $CURRENT_USER['email'],
                      'subject' => $_REQUEST['subject'],
                      'html'    => $content 
                      ); 
                      $mailErrors99   = sendMessage($mailArray99);
                      if ($mailErrors99) {die("Mail Error #99: $mailErrors99"); }

Assuming you're using the usual PHP mail function, at least. But either way the lack of quotes will cause errors there.

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By nmsinc - October 2, 2014

Hi Claire,

How about when the emails are passed via a form submit where the user enters ray@abc.com, kim@abc.com, bill@abc.com into a form box?

The attempt returns invalid email address!

Thanks - nmsinc

nmsinc

By claire - October 3, 2014

If you've got a check in place that validates a single email address, then yes, it'll throw up an error when multiples are entered.

I'd say you'll have to modify the check to detect commas in the string, split it up into an array of email addresses, and then check each one first.

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By claire - October 6, 2014

Are you sure that the IF check at the start is being processed?

At this point, I usually drop echo statements into the code at various points to make sure that the script is actually getting to the code as expected.

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