I am trying to take inputs from a form on my website using a simple PHP script as given below:
<?php
$toemail = 'xyz@anyemail.com';
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if(mail($toemail, 'Subject', $message, 'From: ' . $email)) {
echo 'Your email was sent successfully.';
} else {
echo 'There was a problem sending your email.';
}
?>
This worked perfectly. Well, almost. The email I receive does not include the sender's name. I would want to see a normal email response (with name of the sender in the name column of inbox and I should be able to see the email address of the sender when I open the mail.)
So I made a few changes after looking up some threads like this:
<?php
$toemail = 'xyz@anyemail.com';
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$email_from = $name.'<'.$email.'>';
$header = 'From: '.$email_from;
if(mail($toemail, 'Subject', $message, $header)) {
echo 'Your email was sent successfully.';
} else {
echo 'There was a problem sending your email.';
}
?>
Email response is still same. What do I need to change ?
Try this format, note the spaces and the 's, change your variables accordingly:
$email_headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "
";
$email_headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "
";
$email_headers .='From: YOURNAME <sender_email@yourdomain.com>' . "
";
$email_headers .='Reply-To: reply_to_email@yourdomain.com' . "
";
mail($recipient_address, $email_subject, $email_body, $email_headers);
<?php
$to = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "
" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "
" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Quoted from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php