send email to array

Ok I have a code for email here:

<?php
if($_POST['submit']){
$to = "$member[email]";
	// Change this to your site admin email
	$from = "announcements@troop78.infiniteserve.com";
	$subject = "You have a new message waiting on your dashboard!";
	//Begin HTML Email Message where you need to change the activation URL inside
	$message = 'Hello, You have a new message awaiting on your dashboard.  Please login with your userid to see more.  Thank you.';
	// end of message
	$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
	$to = "$to";
	// Finally send the activation email to the member
	mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
	// Then print a message to the browser for the joiner 


}
	?>

then I have a list of recipients for messages.  This code will select who will post a message on the user's dashboard.  the ultimate goal is that an email will be sent out to whoever is selected too......so that they know there is a message.  here is the code.....I don't know if it is written properly:

<?php    
    
    $select = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members") or die(mysql_error());
    while ($member = mysql_fetch_array($select)) {
        echo '<input type="checkbox" name="user[]" value="'.$member[name].'"><input type="hidden" name="email[]" value="'.$member[email].'">'.$member[name].'<br>';
    }
    
?>

Something like this?

if(isset($_REQUEST['task'])) {
   case 'email_recipients':
        $result = email_recipients($_REQUEST['member_emails']);
         //add error checking
         print '<h3>Emails sent out successfully</h3>';
   break;
}


function email_recipients($email_array) {
  if(is_array($email_array)) {
   $headers = //blah;
   $subject = blah;
   $from = blah;
    foreach($email_array as $recip_email) {
         mail($recip_email, etc);
    }

  }
}

print '
<form action = "" method = "post" >';

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members") or die(mysql_error());
while ($member = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
    print '<input type = "checkbox" name = "member_emails[]" value = "'.$member['email'].'" /> '.$member['email'].' <br/>';
}

print '
<input type = "hidden" name = "task" value = "email_recipients" />

<input type = "submit" value = "submit" />
</form>';

You'd be better off using BCC headers if you're going to do a mass email.  Calling the mail() function X amount of times will just make your script X times slower.

BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy if you didn't already know.  if you want the other users to see all the subscribers then just use CC

so for instance, with your code

    foreach($email_array as $recip_email) {
         $headers .= "\r\nBCC:" . $recip_email . "\r\n";
    }

Then just put the headers variable in your ONE mail function.

I get an error saying unexpected t_CASE on line 59......

<?php
session_start(); // Must start session first thing
/* 
Created By Adam Khoury @ www.flashbuilding.com 
-----------------------June 20, 2008----------------------- 
*/
// Here we run a login check
if (!isset($_SESSION['id'])) { 
   echo 'Please <a href="/login.php">log in</a> to access your account';
   exit(); 
}

//Connect to the database through our include 
include_once "connect_to_mysql.php";
// Place Session variable 'id' into local variable
$userid = $_SESSION['id'];
?>
<?php
// Query member data from the database and ready it for display
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE userid='$userid' LIMIT 1");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$name = $row["name"];
$phone = $row["phone"];
$username = $row["username"];
$address = $row["address"];
$city = $row["city"];
$state = $row["state"];
$zip = $row["zip"];
$cell = $row["cell"];
$email = $row["email"];
$accounttype = $row["accounttype"];
$rank = $row["rank"];
$badges = $row["badges"];
}
?>
<?php
if ($_POST[user]){
    foreach ($_POST[user] as $key => $value){
    
    // [..] code that adds the message to the database

        $content = $_POST['content'];
        $from = $_POST['from'];
        $subject = $_POST['title'];
    
    $query ="insert into messages(title, content, recipient, from1) VALUES ('$subject', '$content', '$value','$from')";



mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');



}
}
?>
<?php
if(isset($_REQUEST['task'])) {
   case 'email_recipients':
        $result = email_recipients($_REQUEST['member_emails']);
         //add error checking
         print '<h3>Emails sent out successfully</h3>';
   break;
}


function email_recipients($email_array) {
  if(is_array($email_array)) {
   $headers = //blah;
   $subject = blah;
   $from = blah;
    foreach($email_array as $recip_email) {
         mail($recip_email, etc);
    }

  }
}

print '
<form action = "" method = "post" >';

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members") or die(mysql_error());
while ($member = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
    print '<input type = "checkbox" name = "member_emails[]" value = "'.$member['email'].'" /> '.$member['email'].' <br/>';
}

print '
<input type = "hidden" name = "task" value = "email_recipients" />

<input type = "submit" value = "submit" />
</form>';

	?>
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<script type="text/xml">
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<body>
<div id="menu2"><div id="menu">
  <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="myprofile.php">My Profile</a>    </li>
    <li><a href="register.php">Register</a></li>
    <li><a href="dashboard.php">Dashboard</a>    </li>
    <li><a href="news.php">News</a></li>
    <?php if ($accounttype == "Admin") {
?>
    <li><a href="membermanager.php">Scout Manager</a></li>
    <li><a href="eventmanager.php">Event Manager</a></li>
    <li><a href="newsmanager.php">News Manager</a></li>
  </ul><?php
}
?><?php if ($accounttype == "Scout Master") {
?>
    <li><a href="membermanager.php">Scout Manager</a></li>
    <li><a href="eventmanager.php">Event Manager</a></li>
    <li><a href="newsmanager.php">News Manager</a></li>
  </ul><?php
}
?>
</div></div>
<div id="logout1"><div id="logout"><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></div></div>
<div id="status"><?php echo "$accounttype"; ?>
  <br /><?php echo "$name"; ?>
  <p> </p>
</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
<br />
<br />


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<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="newmess.php">
   <center> <table width="323" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
      <tr>
        <th width="58" scope="col">Subject:
        <label for="subject"></label></th>
        <td width="245" scope="col"><input type="text" name="title" id="subject" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th> </th>
        <td>
       </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>
          Recipient(s):<br /></th>
        <td><?php    
    
    $select = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members") or die(mysql_error());
    while ($member = mysql_fetch_array($select)) {
        echo '<input type="checkbox" name="user[]" value="'.$member[name].'"><input type="hidden" name="email[]" value="'.$member[email].'">'.$member[name].'<br>';
    }
    
?></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><label for="content2">Content:</label></td>
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		{title : 'Table styles'},
		{title : 'Table row 1', selector : 'tr', classes : 'tablerow1'}
	]
});

// EndOAWidget_Instance_2204022
        </script>
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          <textarea id="postContent" name="content" rows="15" style="width:80%"></textarea></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="hidden" name="from" id="from" value='<?php echo $name; ?>' /></td>
        <td><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Post" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table></center>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
  </form>
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<div class="push"></div></div>
<div class="footer"><?php if($accounttype == "Admin"){include_once "footer-ad.php";}else if($accounttype == "Scout Master"){ include_once "footer-ad.php";} else if($accounttype == "Scout") {
include_once "footer-sc.php"; 
}
?>
</div>

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var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
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is this the way I would set the code up?

and how would I replace the form I have set up for name select to work with the one you guys gave me?