[RESOLVED] From Header

JumpinJuniper

I would like to know how to set the "from header." I already know that using the mail() command I can set the from header under $headers, however, my goal is when I receive the email via outlook express to have either a name or email address in the "from" field in the Outlook listing of emails.

scrupul0us

<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [email]webmaster@example.com[/email]' . "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: [email]webmaster@example.com[/email]' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

--or--

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = 'aidan@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'wez@example.com';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
   <tr>
     <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
   </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

JumpinJuniper

I have tried this, however, when I receive the email, I see the following:

Under the "From" field is something like "root@host10.swh.bellsouth.net". When I look at the header properties, I also see that as the "Reply-to" field. And under the headers, I set both the from and reply-to header as the $email (i.e. what the user inputs as their email address on the form).

I know the form is getting the $email input because I also have the form processor display the email address as part of the message, such as:

This email was received from $email on $date. The $email displays the email address the user input and the date displays correctly.

scrupul0us

lets see your code

JumpinJuniper

I have rewritten it and used the example you gave, however, it does not send the email nor does it redirect to the success.html page (simple page that says the email was sent). For this post, I have input a bogus email address for the sake of spammers that might be on the boards.

<?php

# Field Variables
$to = 'sumuser@fjfjfjf.org';
$name = DoStripSlashes( $_REQUEST['Name'] );
$from = DoStripSlashes( $_REQUEST['Email'] );
$phone = DoStripSlashes( $_REQUEST['Phone'] );
$message = DoStripSlashes( $_REQUEST['Message'] );
$subject = 'Message From Website';

# Message Body
$body = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Message From Website</title>
</head>
<body>
$name
<br>
$from
<br>
$message
</body>
</html>
';

# Required Headers for HTML
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; 
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; 

# Additional headers 
$headers .= 'To: Fred <$to>' . "\r\n"; 
$headers .= 'From: $name <$from>' . "\r\n"; 

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

# Redirect URL
header("Location: success.html");
exit;

?>

Weedpacket

The main difference between single-quoted and double-quoted strings is that variables are not interpolated in single-quoted strings but they are in double-quoted strings. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

So if you use single-quoted strings all your $variables will remain $variable and won't be replaced by their value.

JumpinJuniper

Thanks for the help. I have been trying this script out on two different servers. One server simply gave a blank page. The other server is more friendly, that is, it actually tells me there was an error in PHP and tells me which line. As soon as I saw the line, I knew the problem. I called the DoStripSlashes function, but I forgot to include it.

I have put double quotes around my HTML as I needed the variables to be interpreted. Everything works fine now.. 😃

I do have another question, though. Is there a way I can just include the whole HTML part as a variable and have the slashes automatically put in?

For example, if the message body (that is, $message) is in HTML as such

<html>
<head>
<title>Message From Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial Black" size="2">Message From Website</font>
</body>
</html>

That is just a very small fragment of the HTML code. Basically, though, I would like to have it where the \ would automatically be input before each ". So I could just have all the coding of $message converted.

scrupul0us

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php

JumpinJuniper

Thanks for the help. Everything is working great. 😃