Mailselector for multiple to addresses?

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isaacn Reply #1, 17 years, 5 months ago

Is there a way to use checkboxes with mailselector instead of a select list? For my use case, the end user should be able to choose from a list of items they’re interested in, and different people get notified of the user’s interest. Any thoughts on how I might do this?

Thanks,

Isaac

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phoenixmg Reply #2, 17 years, 5 months ago

I to am looking to do this - any help/suggestions would be very much appreciated.

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phoenixmg Reply #3, 17 years, 5 months ago

I think I’ve figured this one out.

For anyone interested here’s what I did:

First up, use &sendirect=`1` instead of &mailselector. You’ll see why in a tick.

Next build a multiselect with the name of ’email’ and the value of each email address you want to use. This is what will get used by &sendirect.

Create a wee php snippet (call it whatever) which uses the implode function to break up the mutilselect array. By no stretch of the imagination have I any real clue about php. The following works (for me) but please feel free to improve/enhance:

<?php
function fix_address( &$fields ){
		$email_address = implode(",", $fields[email]);
		$fields['email']= $email_address;
		return true;
	}
return '';
?>

Then call the snippet with the &eFormOnBeforeMailSent event like so:

[!fix_address!]
[!eForm? &formid=`contact_form` &sendirect=`1` &eFormOnBeforeMailSent=`fix_address` &tpl=`contact_form_tpl` &report=`contact_form_report` &thankyou=`contact_form_thanks` &subject=`Subject`!]

Apologies if this has been done/covered somewhere before, but I certainly couldn’t find any reference to it.

Enjoy!

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isaacn Reply #4, 17 years, 5 months ago

That’s far better than what I ended up doing -- I hacked eform.inc.php and changed around line 417 to allow for a single or multi-select. Actually, I didn’t test using a value from a select box, but a single value from a set of checkboxes worked. Here’s the code I used (in case someday someone in charge wants to look at it and maybe integrate it into eform):

Original

if ($mselector && $fields[$mselector]) {
	$i = (int)$fields[$mselector];
	$ar = explode(",",$to);
	if ($i>0) $i--;
	if ($ar[$i]) $to = $ar[$i];
	else $to = $ar[0];
}

What I changed it to

if ($mselector && $fields[$mselector]) {
	$mArr = $fields[$mselector];
	$toPoss = explode(",",$to);
	$toArr = array();
	
	foreach($mArr as $m)
		$toArr[] = $toPoss[(int)$m];
		
	if(sizeof($toArr) > 0)
		$to = implode(',',$toArr);
}