Question

I am able to send email to one email id by defining the id in the mailer, but i am not able to understand how to send to multiple recepients when an user types “mssage and email id’s” in a form. Ex – I am showing a form with two text areas – one for email id’s and one for custom message. So when they click send, i want to take the email id’s from that text area and send that message to those ids. I am yet to figure out how to comma/space seperate the emailds but will try it in google search.

thanks

Answer 1

after doing some search, I came with this answer to send multiple address seperated by semicolon(for some reason my try with comma in this code failed, but i am fine with semicolon).

If in case if anyone is looking for JS validation to check the id’s entered

var emailRegex = /^(([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5}){1,25})+([;.](([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\.([a-zA-Z]{2,5}){1,25})+)*$/;

As i collected the email id’s separated by semicolon, i had to replace ; with ,

$emails_tosend = preg_replace('/;/', ',', $emailid);

$email id – collected from the form

so after doing the above replacement, i just use the normal “to” in the mailer to send to multiple recipients.

$to = "$emails_tosend";
mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

hope this helps and it’s clear. I can explain if anyone needs more clarification. thanks for all your help.