emailing from a form

[irishgirl2004]

hi
I am putting something onto my page that allows a user to enter their friends email address and their own email address, and i then want an email to go to their friend, from their address telling them about my website

here's my code

     $to      = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: newsite' . "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

[code=php]


I cant seem to get the FRom bit Correct? the from email displays as my server's name when i send it,

can anybody help?


thanks in advance....

[rikmoncur]

$headers = "From: [e-mail]\n";

But surely you'd want the email to come from the person recommending the site?
In which case, you'd get their email (eg. $sender) and do
From:$sender

[irishgirl2004]

for some reason, the sender's name is still the admin from the box, i'm using a webserver with apache, running on linux ( not sure which version)

here's my current code

    $to      = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = "From: [e-mail]\n"; 
   'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
[code=php]

the reply to seems to work, but it just does not seem to pick up the from field, is this unusual? am i doing something silly?


thanks

[rikmoncur]

Um... perhaps try the following and see what you get:

$to      = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$sender = '[e-mail]';
$headers = 'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message,"From:$sender\n", $headers);
[code=php]

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you could also try a search on google for 'tell a friend tutorial php'

[irishgirl2004]

cool!!!! that works!!! thank ou very much!!!!!