[SOLVED] help with simple mail function

[elmas156]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm creating a mail function with some headers so that the email will display who the sender is but I'm having trouble putting variables in the header so that it will display the name and email address of the sender.  Here's what I have:

$myheaders .= 'Customer Name <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";

 

But I want to add a name and email variable.  I can't get this to work the way I'm trying it.

$myheaders .= '$name <$email>' . "\r\n";

 

What am I doing wrong?

[ratcateme]

$myheaders .= 'Customer Name <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";

looks to me like an invalid header

 

Scott.

[elmas156]

$myheaders .= 'Customer Name <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";

looks to me like an invalid header

 

Scott.

 

The header works fine in this form, it's only when I attempt to add variables to make the customer name and email address dynamic when it gives me problems.

[elmas156]

actually this is the header that works... my mistake.

 

$myheaders .= 'From: Customer Name <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";

[fanfavorite]

Try:

$myheaders .= "From: " . $name . " <" . $email . ">" . "\r\n";

 

Make sure that you have your headers correct though.  An example:

 

$myheaders = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$myheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$myheaders .= "From: " . $name . " <" . $email . ">";

 

[elmas156]

Yeah, I've got them all right, it's only the last one that's giving me problems.

[elmas156]

Awesome, it worked! Thanks for your help!