PHP Send-Mail form to multiple email addresses - php

Question

I'm very new to PHP and am using a basic template 'send-mail' form on a contact page.
It's been requested that I send the email out to multiple email addresses when the "Submit" button is clicked. I've searched around & haven't quite found what I needed. What code do I need to add into the form below in order to send this out to multiple email addresses?
<?php
$mail_to = 'daniel30293#gmail.com'; // specify your email here
// Assigning data from the $_POST array to variables
$name = $_POST['sender_name'];
$mail_from = $_POST['sender_email'];
$phone = $_POST['sender_phone'];
$web = $_POST['sender_web'];
$company = $_POST['sender_company'];
$addy = $_POST['sender_addy'];
$message = $_POST['sender_message'];
// Construct email subject
$subject = 'Web Prayer Request from ' . $name;
// Construct email body
$body_message = 'From: ' . $name . "\r\n";
$body_message .= 'E-mail: ' . $mail_from . "\r\n";
$body_message .= 'Phone: ' . $phone . "\r\n";
$body_message .= 'Prayer Request: ' . $message;
// Construct email headers
$headers = 'From: ' . $name . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $mail_from . "\r\n";
$mail_sent = mail($mail_to, $subject, $body_message, $headers);
if ($mail_sent == true){ ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Your prayer request has been submitted - thank you.');
window.location = 'prayer-request.php';
</script>
<?php } else { ?>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('Message not sent. Please, notify the site administrator admin#bondofperfection.com');
window.location = 'prayer-request.php';
</script>
<?php
}
?>
Your help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You implode an array of recipients:
$recipients = array('jack#gmail.com', 'jill#gmail.com');
mail(implode(',', $recipients), $submit, $message, $headers);
See the PHP: Mail function reference - http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Receiver, or receivers of the mail.
The formatting of this string must comply with » RFC 2822. Some examples are:
user#example.com
user#example.com, anotheruser#example.com
User <user#example.com>
User <user#example.com>, Another User <anotheruser#example.com>

Answer 2

Just add multiple recipients comma seperated in your $mail_to variable like so:
$mail_to = 'nobody#example.com,anotheruser#example.com,yetanotheruser#example.com';
See
mail() function in PHP

Answer 3

Here is a simple example:
<?php
// Has the form been submitted?
// formSubmit: <input type="submit" name="formSubmit">
if (isset($_POST['formSubmit'])) {
// Set some variables
$required_fields = array('name', 'email');
$errors = array();
$success_message = "Congrats! Your message has been sent successfully!";
$sendmail_error_message = "Oops! Something has gone wrong, please try later.";
// Cool the form has been submitted! Let's loop through the required fields and check
// if they meet our condition(s)
foreach ($required_fields as $fieldName) {
// If the current field in the loop is NOT part of the form submission -OR-
// if the current field in the loop is empty, then...
if (!isset($_POST[$fieldName]) || empty($_POST[$fieldName])) {
// add a reference to the errors array, indicating that these conditions have failed
$errors[$fieldName] = "The {$fieldName} is required!";
}
}
// Proceed if there aren't any errors
if (empty($errors)) {
$name = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['name']), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' );
$email = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['email']), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' );
// Email Sender Settings
$to_emails = "anonymous1#example.com, anonymous2#example.com";
$subject = 'Web Prayer Request from ' . $name;
$message = "From: {$name}";
$message .= "Email: {$email}";
$headers = "From: {$name}\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: {$email}\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if (mail($to_emails, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
echo $success_message;
} else {
echo $sendmail_error_message;
}
} else {
foreach($errors as $invalid_field_msg) {
echo "<p>{$invalid_field_msg}</p>";
}
}
}