JMAIL: Multiple Recipient - asp.net

Does JMail accepts delimiter(;) or comma(,) as a separator between different email address like CDO.Message.
For example, we can write,
Mail.To="a#a.com,b#b.com" in CDO.Message.
Does the same is valid for JMAIL like the one below.
jMail.AddRecipient ("a#a.com,b#b.com")
I know we can add multiple recipients by calling the AddRecipient again and again but my question is can we do it in a single line like in CDO.Message?

yes you can add multiple recipients by calling the AddRecipient

Yes, you can.
I spent some time figuring this out as well. I tried the recommended array() of recipients but that did not seem to work. The only thing which worked for me so far was a properly formatted multiple recipient string:
$jmail->addRecipient('recipient1#site.com','recipient2#site.com','recipient3#site.com');
Please note the ["] markup. If you replace the ["] with ['] it will not work. It's little "delicate" this way :)
I am using jMail with PHP/COM extension but I am sure you can reuse this principle for ASP or any other language.
I hope this helped.

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Symfony PHPUnit integration test not able to check full body text

My use case is simple: I am sending text emails, i am trying to make integrations tests in order to check the full text body of the message, please note I don't want to check if message contain a string, i am looking for format and structure. No fancy check since it is just text.
The current public API, as in documentation, and as I see in code allows me to check only whether the message contains a string assertEmailTextBodyContains().
I did read: https://symfony.com/doc/current/mailer.html#write-a-functional-test, from MailerAssertionsTrait can only get a RawMessage, i tried, but did not get a strait way to wrap it within an Email.
What am I missing?
Is there any technical/non technical issue preventing to have such Constraint implemented?
Something like: assertEmailTextBodySameAs() for example.
Just for the sake of documentation.
After informing my self more, i realise that in my ignorance i was looking for an idiomatic syntax in the MailerAssertionsTrait instead what i needed was just to use the IsIdentical constraint from phpunit.
$this->assertThat($email->getTextBody(), new IsIdentical($expectedText), 'Mail body are not the same');
Why such assertion is not built in in trait i did assume it is just to keep it simple allowing others like me to extend later on easily, it is just an speculation though.

GELScript - Email to multiple recipients

How can I send a gel:email to multiple recipients? I have records with 3 email addresses in each and I want to send the same email to all 3.
This is my current code:
<core:forEach items="${getDetails.rows}" var="row">
<core:set value="${row.Manager_Email}" var="manager" />
<core:set value="${row.Delivery_Manager_Email}" var="deliveryManager" />
<core:set value="${row.Director_Email}" var="director" />
<core:choose>
<core:when test="${status == 1}">
<gel:email from="Clarity_Do-Not-Reply#gov.nl.ca" fromName="Clarity Administrator" to="${manager};${deliveryManager};${director}" subject="Notification: Project is due to finish within 7 days">
I've tried that and:
to="${manager;deliveryManager;director}"
Neither seem to work. The doc says they can be split with the ; but it doesn't seem to be working. What am I doing wrong?
Does it work with just one of them? I would start and establish that the mail server works in this environment. Choose one of those variables and print it out. If it's not what you are expecting then fix your query or wherever you are getting those bound variables. If it is correct then remove the other two recipients and establish that you can send an email successfully to just one of the recipients. If that works then continue troubleshooting.
If it doesn't work then you may discover that your mail server does not allow relaying, unauthenticated services or sending mail from a non-existent email account. You can start checking those things.
One of the issues with both the GEL email tag and the CORE email tag is that it doesn't support including the same email address twice. If you check your project you might find that the same resource is listed as both delivery manager and manager or director, etc. This is a problem for the tag.
You can get around this by placing all recipients into a data structure that doesn't allow duplicates (like a hash map/set) and then iterate them out back into a semi colon delimited String.
There are probably lots of examples of this type of thing on regoXchange, a huge repository of free GEL scripts and Clarity related customizations and development.
This approach that was in your original script example is the correct way to do it: to="${manager};${deliveryManager};${director}"
That is, using a single delimiter type (semi-colon in this case) to separate each evaluated variable value.
The style from your second attempt definitely will not work as ${manager;deliveryManager;director} is not a valid JEXL expression.
There are additional points to be aware of, such as:
Each of the values in the to attribute should not have anything else that can be mistaken for another delimiter type (e.g. no spaces or commas), as you may not mix and match.
Only use the email address directly, meaning some.one#somedomain.com and don't use forms like "One, Some" <some.one#somedomain.com>
Make sure none of the email addresses are duplicated in the list. Every address must be unique. As mentioned in the answer provided by #coda, you can filter duplicates out with some extra GEL or you can put the logic into your query (the row source) to de-duplicate.
If this is running in a SaaS environment, make sure none of the user addresses you are picking up are among the defaults for some built-in user accounts like username#mailserver.com or similar, as they have resulted in emails being filtered out before sending.

Wordpress PODS magic tags extend with parameters

I am wondering if there's any function that I can create in order to modify the magic tags behaviour.
Ideally, I would like to use a tag like this {#post_content|120} which would go through my custom function and check if there's a | character, then execute the original magic tag, while trimming text down to 120 characters.
But I don't know where to hook in order to filter this content.
I know that I can pass a function name with the magic tag but this isn't really helpful as I need to pass the characters limit parameter which PODS doesn't support.
Also, I can't be creating functions for all my characters limit as I have a lot of places where I need different limits and I would end up using tons of functions and no dynamic solution.
Can I somehow trigger a magic tag with a parameter? Any other thoughts about doing this another way?
Thank you!
I don't think that's possible, {#your_field, your_function} is how it works (the function takes the field value as input) - you could use different function names like trim_120, trim_100 and do the stuff you need in there - I guess it's to create excerpts with different length's although there are other ways to do that e.g use the_content filter for one ...

I am trying to enter a formatted chunk of code as a custom field but it never makes it to the database

I am trying to pass this into a custom field called "_vtprd_includeOrExclude"
a:2:{s:23:"includeOrExclude_option";s:11:"includeList";s:29:"includeOrExclude_checked_list";a:2:{i:0;s:2:"1856";i:1;s:4:"1857";}}
I am using WPAllImport to get the data out of an XML package and into the field.
I know that the function works because if I put "bob" in the custom field it goes in without any issue.
What is wrong with this string that is causing it to come up empty?
As always, your feedback and help is greatly appreciated.
The problem was that the data within the string would fail if turned into an array because the string count was incorrect for one of the fields.
The part to look at is at the end.
... a:2:{i:0;s:2:"1856";i:1;s:4:"1857";}}
The offender is i:0;s:2:"1856"
"1856" is 4 string characters long, not to.
So it SHOULD look like this.
i:0;s:4:"1856"
When I made that change I silenced the custom function and it worked just fine.
Perfect example of not knowing enough about how this structure works. So I guess knowing is half the battle.
go joe.

ASP.NET - Negative numbers in Parenthesis

My application is currently displaying negative numbers as -1. The users have changed the requirements (just for a change!) and now we will have to display the numbers as (1).
Can I enable that for the whole application say changing the web.config or even the app's CultureInfo ? Is there any side effect of doing that since we have lots of pages that contain number validators ?
Thanks !
For currency it is really easy:
String.Format("{0:C}", value)
This will use the culture info for the system.
For normal numbers being data bound, use Mark Glorie's sample.
MSDN Article
I'd use String formatting. Making a change to the application's configuration to satisfy a UI requirement is heavy-handed. SteveX wrote a great blog post about String formatting. It's also compatible with markup (aspx) instead of only relevant in code.
From his post:
String.Format(”{0:$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00);Zero}”, value);
This will output “$1,240.00″ if passed 1243.50. It will output the
same format but in parentheses if the number is negative, and will
output the string “Zero” if the number is zero.
Which isn't exactly what you want, but it's close.
Check this..
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/91fwbcsb.aspx
Converts the string representation of a number in a specified style to its Decimal equivalent.
I've got the following page bookmarked for doing string formatting: http://idunno.org/archive/2004/14/01/122.aspx
About halfway down, it gives the answer:
String.Format("{0:£#,##0.00;(£#,##0.00);Nothing}", value);
To answer your other question, I wouldn't modify the app.config to make it global, for reasons given in the other answers.
String.Format(”{0:f;(f);0”, -1);
This works.
DataFormatString="{0:c0}"
Nagative amounts in paranthesis
Thousand separater - comma
$ symbol in front
You could always write your own custom ToString() method as an extension method, but like you mention, using CultureInfo is probably better. Take a look here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.numberformatinfo.numbernegativepattern.aspx
Are you displaying your data in Gridview/Datagrids? If so then formatting can be applied per bound-column, something like:
<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{##;(##)}"/>
This only works with integers however...

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