email CGI-Mailer

[DezB1]

Hi Folks

 

I'm relatively new to PHP so please excuse my ignorance where it shows through.

 

I have a contact form on a website that sends perfectly well but when it is received the "From" box shows "CGI-Mailer"  I would like to replace that with the senders email address that they have to enter on the contact form if at all possible.

 

The code I am using is:

 

 
<?php

$where_form_is="http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].strrev(strstr(strrev($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']),"/"));

session_start();
if( ($_SESSION['security_code']==$_POST['security_code']) && (!empty($_POST['security_code'])) ) {
mail("[email protected]","Blah Blah - Website Contact","Contact Form Data:

Title: " . $_POST['field_1'] . "
First Name: " . $_POST['field_2'] . "
Last Name: " . $_POST['field_3'] . "

Your email address: " . $_POST['field_4'] . "

Your phone number: " . $_POST['field_5'] . "

Message: " . $_POST['field_6'] . "



");

include("confirm.html");
}
else {
echo "Invalid Captcha String.";
}

?>

 

Any help would be most appreciated, thank you

 

DezB1

[gizmola]

This information comes from the php manual for mail here -> http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php. Did you read that?

 

$headers = 'From: ' . $_POST['field_4'] . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: ' . $_POST['field_4'] . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

These additional headers can be sent as an optional parameter to mail().

 

So your code would probably be:

 

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();


mail("[email protected]","Blah Blah - Website Contact","Contact Form Data:

Title: " . $_POST['field_1'] . "
First Name: " . $_POST['field_2'] . "
Last Name: " . $_POST['field_3'] . "

Your email address: " . $_POST['field_4'] . "

Your phone number: " . $_POST['field_5'] . "

Message: " . $_POST['field_6'] . "



", $headers);

[DezB1]

Hi Gizmola

 

Thanks for getting back to me, I did read through the instructions especially example 2 but having tried several times I could not get it to work for some reason.

 

I'll try your suggestion and see what happens.

 

Regards

 

DezB1

[jcbones]

On a side note, you need to check with your host.  A lot of host will not send the mail unless it is FROM an address on the server. 

[DezB1]

Hi Folks

 

Worked a treat, many thanks again for your help.

 

Regards

 

DezB1