[Resolved] [Resolved] Set Email Header Fields via PHP Script

[Germany]

Does anybody know how to add fields and values to emails via PHP's mail function?

[Tomz]

What exactly do you mean? I suppose you have a form that the user fills out and then have it sent to an e-mail address?

Ok, you make your webform using HTML, then you'll best create another .php file that is going to handle the form.

In the FORM tag do something like this <form name='blahblah' action='php_file_to_handle_script' method='POST'>

Give all your formfields a name, you're going to use this name in the .php file that is going to send out your mail.

Then in your .php file you do something like this

$subject 	= "Subject_here";
$to         = "recipient_address_here"; 

$body = "

Here_you_enter_whatever_text_is_going_to_be_in_the_email_body.

$_POST["formfield_name_here"]; // this is where you put the values that were submitted by the form. 


";

mail ($to, $subject, $body, "From: your_email_addy" ); // mail() function sends the mail.

$POST["..."]; retrieves the formvalues that were entered by the user. Use $POST if your method was post. If it was GET, just use $_GET[...]; (mind the caps). Repeat this for every formvalue you want to display in your mail.

hope this helps! 🙂

[Germany]

Thanks for your answer, but that was NOT what I was asking. I am asking how to add HEADER key value pairs to the SMTP message which is generated. I'd like to transmit meta information as header key value pairs in mails via smtp.

Any idea?

[Tomz]

I see... I'm sorry, have no idea... 🙁

[ScubaDvr2]

I'm a little confused by what you mean.. but my best guess at what you're asking is that you want to define certain headers when you send mail? Is this right?

In any case.. if you wanted to do that you'd do something like this:

$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'subject!';
$message = 'message';
$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'From: [email][e-mail][/email]';
$headers[] = 'Reply-to: [email][e-mail][/email]';
$headers[] = 'CC: [email][e-mail][/email]';

$header = NULL;
for ($i = 0; $i < count($headers); $i++)
{
      $header .= $headers[$i] . '/r/n';
}

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

is this anything close to what you want?

[Germany]

Exactly! Thanks so much!

[ScubaDvr2]

No problem..

although... I did make a typo

It should be \r\n and not /r/n when you build the headers. I don't know my forward-slashes from my back-slashes, sorry 🙂