How to get rid of quotes in From field

Mario11779

I have a php script that takes data from a form and sends it to me in an email. It works find with one exeption. The From field of the emails that the script sends me has the email address in quotes " "

Here is the line that I am using for the header From field

$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['email']."\r\n";

I have also used many others and tried tweaking them all and am always getting the same result. I need the address to come in without quotes so that my autoresponder will work.

Can someone please help this super newbie. I am not a coder but just need a solution to this problem. Thanks in advance.

1042

try this, (note the double quotes on the "email" instead of the single quote)

$headers .= "From: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";

also try printing (echoing) the $headers variable to the screen like this;

<?
$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['email']."\r\n";
echo "$headers";
?>

and as the code runs, you will be able to see what the variable holds at that point in the program's execution.

Mario11779

I changed the headers line to the one you suggested and tried running the script. I got the same results of getting the email address with the "quotes" around it.

I then tried running it with your echo line added in as well and got the following error message upon running the script:

MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 From: email@address.com
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/smart/public_html/appointments/tax-appointments.php:8) in /home/smart/public_html/appointments/tax-appointments.php on line 38

Please help as I am stumpted, I was up until 5 AM researching this last night. The trouble is that I am not a programmer or coder. Thanks again to all who will help!

Mario11779

Please help!! I need an expert on this and I don't know where else to find someone who can help.

themanwhowas

no expert myself but try

$headers .= "From: {$_POST['email']} \r\n";

$headers .=  'From: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n";

1042

can you post your complete code? that would make it easier to trobleshoot.

suntra

Have a look at this post... That's a function I wrote to send an email in either text/plain, text/html or text/plain+text/html...

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10771280#post10771280