[Phphelpdesk-help] customize addjob

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Hello,
  I work for a medium sized school system and I am trying to customize phphelpdesk to better suit our needs. I have setup my departments to represent each school. I would like to automatically send an email to each principal of the school/department whenever a ticket is opened for thier school. I don't want this to be a user available option. Just something that happens behind the scenes. Here's what I've done so far:

1. Bought a PHP book

2. Created a column called " t_adminemail " in the TABLE " ticket " inside my database. It is indentical to the " t_useremail " used in the file addjob.scp.php

3. What I need to know now is how to write a statement that is something like this: 

IF $l_deparmtent = Jones High School, THEN $mailto=pri...@jo...

IF $l_deparmtent = Smith Elementary School, THEN $mailto=pri...@sm...

See what I'm trying to do? I'm very new to PHP so any help is greatly appreciated. Please remember to reply in newbie language since I'm not a programmer by default. 

I also want to Thank everyone who has helped to create this terrific tool. Our school's are not wealthy and a free option was our only hope. Thank you very much!

Sincerely,
John Ferrell