Emailer question

[pauldreed]

I have a contact form on my website which sends the contacts details to my email.
However, when the email arrives it indicates that it has been sent from my server, whereas I want it to show that it has been sent from the email address entered on the form.
Example; I get  email which includes the sender address as serverone.jabweb.co.uk, but the email of the person submiting the form is [email protected]. If I then try to reply to the message, it would be sent to serverone.jabweb.co.uk instead of [email protected]. As being new to php, what do I need to alter to change this. I have attached part of the code below.

<?php
# fill this in with the address to which the email will be sent
$recipient = '[email protected]';

session_start();
define('CAPTCHA_PATH', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/captcha/');

if(isset($_GET['i']))
{
    captcha_image();
}
elseif(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    if(!($error = error()))
    {
        $subject = 'Mail from '.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].' webform';
        $message =
"Sender: ".ucwords($_POST['name'])." \r\n\r\n".
        "Email: {$_POST['email']} \r\n\r\n".
    "Happy: {$_POST['happy']} \r\n\r\n".
        "Message: {$_POST['comments']} \r\n\r\n".
$users_ip = 'IP Address of sender: '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
                   
        if(@mail($recipient, $subject, $message))
        {
            header('Location: http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?success');
        }
        else
        {
            header('Location: http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?failure');
        }
    }
}

function error()
{
    if(empty($_POST['name']))
    {
        return 'ERROR: The name field is empty.';
    }
    if(preg_match('/[^a-zA-Z ]/', $_POST['name']))
    {
        return 'ERROR: The name field contains invalid characters.';
    }
    if(empty($_POST['email']))
    {
        return 'ERROR: The email field is empty.';
    }
    if(!eregi('^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$', $_POST['email']))
    {
        return 'ERROR: The email field contains invalid syntax.';
    }
    if(empty($_POST['comments']))
    {
        return 'ERROR: The comments field is empty.';
    }
    if(!captcha_validate())
    {
        return 'ERROR: Incorrect security code entered.';
    }
    return false;

The rest of the code goes onto the Captcha code.

[alpine]

You can accomplish this by adding some appropriate headers on the email.

Try this inbetween your current code, the headers is now at minimum:
[code]
<?php

if(!($error = error()))
{
$sender_name = ucwords($_POST['name']);
$sender_email = $_POST['email'];
$headers = "From: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";

$subject = 'Mail from '.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].' webform';
$message =
"Sender: $sender_name \r\n\r\n".
"Email: $sender_email \r\n\r\n".
"Happy: {$_POST['happy']} \r\n\r\n".
"Message: {$_POST['comments']} \r\n\r\n".
$users_ip = 'IP Address of sender: '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if(mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers))
// continue your current code
?>
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[pauldreed]

Alpine, thanks I used your code and I now get the email exactly as I want it!
To take the code one stage further, to also send a confirmation email to the person submitting the form, I have added on the code below, but there is some error which prevents the page from displaying in the browser.
I have set the variables $sendnotification and $websitetitle earlier in the code, and if I remove everything between the 'send confirmation email' comments, I go back to a working page. Is there something stupid creating an error with my addition?
[code]if(!($error = error()))
{
$sender_name = ucwords($_POST['name']);
$sender_email = $_POST['email'];
$headers = "From: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";

$subject = 'Webform enquiry from '.$_POST['name'].' via '.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$message =
"Sender: $sender_name \r\n\r\n".
"Email: $sender_email \r\n\r\n".
"Telephone: {$_POST['tel']} \r\n\r\n".
"Prefered Contact time: {$_POST['time']} \r\n\r\n".
"Message: {$_POST['comments']} \r\n\r\n".
$users_ip = 'IP Address of sender: '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if(mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers))

# send confirmation email
if($sendnotification == true) {
$notification_message = "Thank you for contacting $websitetitle, $sender_name. We have received your email and will be in touch shortly";
$notification_subject = "Thanks for your message to $websitetitle.";
mail($sender_email, $notification_subject, $notification_message, "From: $recipient");
}
# end of confirmation email code
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[alpine]

It looks like you have misplaced sendnotification outside the brackets of the if(mail test
On these errors please post full code.

Try:

[code]
<?php

if(mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
# send confirmation email
if($sendnotification == true)
{
$notification_message = "Thank you for contacting $websitetitle, $sender_name. We have received your email and will be in touch shortly";
$notification_subject = "Thanks for your message to $websitetitle.";
mail($sender_email, $notification_subject, $notification_message, "From: $recipient");
}
header('Location: http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?success');
}
// else etc..

?>
[/code]