Mail from Help Please:

[roldahayes]

Hi, I am trying to set up a contact form and at the moment, the email is "coming from" the server when sent so hitting reply in an email program sends the mail back to the server.

 

I need it to return back to the persons mail who filled out the form.

 

I know that I would need something like $from = ...................  but not sure how to actually write this.

 

The code is:

 

<?php

$to = "test@test.com"; // Replace with your email address
$subject = "Message from ".ucwords($_POST['name']); // Enter the subject here.



//Validating email addres
$email = $_POST['email'];

function validateEmail($email)
{
   if(eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,5}$', $email))
  return true;
   else
  return false;
}


//Validates the required fields
if((strlen($_POST['name']) < 1 ) || (strlen($email) < 1 ) || (strlen($_POST['message']) < 1 ) || validateEmail($email) == FALSE){
$emailerror .= true;


} else {

$emailerror .= false;


//Composing the email
$email_message =
	"Name: " . ucwords($_POST['name']) . "\n" .
	"Email: " . $email . "\n" .
	"Message: " . "\n" . $_POST['message'] . "\n";

//Sending the email
mail($to, $subject, $email_message);
}

?>

<?php 

if($emailerror == true) {
echo '<span>Please fill all the fields.</span>';
}
else
{
echo "<span>Message has been sent. Thank you!</span>";
}	


?>

[Adam]

You need to set the 'From' header and pass it in to the mail() function as the 4th "additional headers" parameter:

 

$headers = "From: someone@example.com\r\n";

mail(.., .., .., $headers);

 

As you may have noticed the headers are a string and delimited between a CRLF (Carriage return/linefeed - "\r\n"). You can add other headers to the string too, like 'Reply-To':

 

$headers  = "From: someone@example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: someone-else@example.com\r\n";

[roldahayes]

Thats great, may thanks but can I get the  "someone@example.com" to be the email of the person who has filled out the email field on the contact form?

[Adam]

Yeah you just need to feed in the variable where you have it saved:

 

$headers = "From: {$from_email}\r\n";

[roldahayes]

I'm really struggling with this - when clicking reply, it goes to the admin@mysite.com address and not that of the user who has filled the form in?

 

Heres what I have as the code:

 

<?php

$to = "admin@mysite.com"; // Replace with your email address
$subject = "Message from ".ucwords($_POST['name']); // Enter the subject here.
$headers  = "From: admin@mysite.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $email . "\n" ;


//Validating email addres
$email = $_POST['email'];

function validateEmail($email)
{
   if(eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,5}$', $email))
  return true;
   else
  return false;
}


//Validates the required fields
if((strlen($_POST['name']) < 1 ) || (strlen($email) < 1 ) || (strlen($_POST['message']) < 1 ) || validateEmail($email) == FALSE){
$emailerror .= true;


} else {

$emailerror .= false;


//Composing the email
$email_message =
	"Name: " . ucwords($_POST['name']) . "\n" .
	"Email: " . $email . "\n" .
	"Message: " . "\n" . $_POST['message'] . "\n";

//Sending the email
mail($to, $subject, $email_message, $headers);
}

?>

<?php 

if($emailerror == true) {
echo '<span>Please fill all the fields.</span>';
}
else
{
echo "<span>Message has been sent. Thank you!</span>";
}	


?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You are producing the $header variable before you have assigning anything to the $email variable that it contains and the Reply-to: header is an empty value.

 

You would want to produce the $header variable after any variables it contains have been assigned a value.

[roldahayes]

Excellent, now works fine - Many thanks for your help!