[SOLVED] PHP E-mail Form

[harmanUK]

Hello,

 

I have been trying to create a simple PHP e-mail form, the code i have at the moment is:

 

<?php 
{
$to = "myemail@gmail.com";
$company = "Matrix Electronics LTD"; 
$subject = "New Order Notification"; 
$thanks = "New Order Notification"; 
$headerclient = "Testing";
$name = $_POST['name']; 
$email = $_POST['e-mail']; 
$item1 = $_POST['item1'];   
$item2 = $_POST['item2'];
$item3 = $_POST['item3'];
  
$body = "You have a new order\n Name: <br>$name</br>\n E-mail $email\n Item 1: $item1\n Item 2: $item2\n Item 3: $item3"; 
$bodyclient = "Thank you for your order <br>$name</br>\n\n You have ordered:\n Item 1: $item1\n Item 2: $item2\n Item 3: $item3\n Thank you for shopping at $company !";   

echo "Thank you $name_field, your order has been received at $company! You will receive a confirmation e-mail to $email shortly. "; 
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headerclient); 
mail($email, $thanks, $bodyclient, $headerclient); 
} 
?> 

 

It works and sends the e-mail's but how to i define who it is from, at the moment when i receive the e-mail its from steadyne@srv2.thewebhostserver.com. How can i change that to the company name?

 

Thanks,

Terry

[genericnumber1]

Add a From: header based on the standard formats...

 

From: email@domain.com

From: Your Name <email@domain.com>

[harmanUK]

Thanks for your quick reply, can you explain, I only just started learning PHP today trying to get a head start before we start it in class. I'm not 100% sure what a header is. Any chance of a line or two of example code?

 

-Terry

[genericnumber1]

Well when you send an email you have to specify certain headers, which is basically just a email form of a file's metadata... you mistakenly set yours to "testing" which is why I'm surprised it didn't get blocked as spam.

 

Try changing the value of your header variable from "testing" to whatever form matches what you want from my last post.

[harmanUK]

Thanks again for your quick reply, i have tried this and i dont think im doing something right, its appearing in the body of the message?

 

I have included a screenshot of the e-mail, with the red arrow pointing to what i want to be able to change.

 

 

http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=helpps6.jpg

 

-Terry

[DeanWhitehouse]

http://uk.php.net/manual/

This website should be your number one website to check how to use all php functions.

This is what is meant about headers.

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

[harmanUK]

Thanks, had a look on that site, geat stuff, what i was doing wrong was i had:

 

$headerclient = "noreply@site.co.uk";

 

When it sould be:

 

$headerclient = "From: noreply@site.co.uk";

 

Thanks all, solved !