Title: Alternate recipient
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Alternate recipient

 *  [srkrag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srkrag/)
 * (@srkrag)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternate-recipient/)
 * Hi there,
    I need to change alternate the recipients to my contact form, so I
   wrote some code, but the contact form is not sent. Nothing happens… Any clue 
   someone ?
 *     ```
       function wpcf7_do_something (&$WPCF7_ContactForm) {
           $emailpick = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT numberofsent FROM wp_mailsent WHERE ID ='1' ");
       	if ($emailpick == 0 ) {
       	$mail = $contact_form->prop( 'mail' );
       	$mail['recipient'] = "Mike <yyyy@xxx.com>";
       	$contact_form->set_properties( array( 'mail' => $mail ) );
       	}
       	else{
       	$mail = $contact_form->prop( 'mail' );
       	$mail['recipient'] = "Mikebis <xxxx@yyy.com>";
       	$contact_form->set_properties( array( 'mail' => $mail ) );
       	}
       	if ($emailpick == 1 ){
       		$emailpick == 0;
       		}
       	else {$emailpick == 1;}
       	$wpdb->update($wpdb->mailsent, array("numberofsent" => $emailpick), array("ID" => 1));
       	}
       add_action("wpcf7_before_send_mail", "wpcf7_do_something");
       ```
   
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 * Last reply from: [srkrag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srkrag/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternate-recipient/)
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