Ep. 7 - How to send e-mails to recipients listed in a drop-down field

Thanks for the key to seeing the list of variables.

I'll check on leaving from & to empty but I think I received an error message when I tried that.

Hello,

If you take a closer look at the PHP Email scripts article, you will notice that it does provide a complete list of the email properties. Further to this, you can simply use a print_r($adminE mail);die(); to see the exact structure for yourself.
You can disable the admin email by simply not specifying a From and To address.

Please disregard my comment about admin email - it was erroneous.

I have a script to populate the dropdown without emails from a simple csv file. This script is in the "items" values in the dropdown options. I also have a script which converts the dropdown selection into the associated email. This is in the "after post before before send" form-script area. My issue now is that I need to modify the mail "to" value (as well as cc and bcc). I have seen vague references to it in the tutorials but nothing specific about field-names, how/when/what the intepreter does with an override, etc.

I also wish there was an option to Not send an email to the admin. That though is a function request.

Thanks

This is why the scripting method is suggested as an alternate. Thus the recipients won't be displayed within the frontend - thus being protected from spam bots.

I am not quite sure i understand your reference to admin email. Can you please explain further ?

If you are trying to hide emails from scrapers and bots, do NOT use the methods suggested here. As soon as you enter an email address into any selectable item-pair, the email is exposed in the html. As far as I know, there is no built-in function to match a selected form-value to an "admin-email" value. BTW, "admin-email" is a complete misnomer for the standard email "to:" field.

$POST does not fill the dropdown with values. I tried to ask support but my site is covered under a site license through a "mother" site and I have no access to the license key. I'm not asking for a tutorial on php but your articles do not address my issue.

Thanks

I have a small csv file, ~12 lines; each line contains 2 fields:
office, office@us.com
president, president@us.com
finances,treasu rer@us.com
I can successfully read/parse through the data but I cannot populate the dropdown. I must be missing something simple. code is below which is in "Script called on form display". Thanks
//
$handle = fopen("/home/em/em.csv", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle , 4096, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$_POST['form']['cf_recipient'][0] = $data[0];
}

fclose($handle) ;
}
else
{
echo "Error: Unable to open file\n";
}
//

The $_POST array will only contain the submitted value. If a dropdown is used, then it will contain a single value, indexed 0.

PS: If you are having problems in implementing this, please submit a support ticket:

http://www.rsjoomla.com/support.html