在通过用户输入表单通过电子邮件发送消息时，如何包括发件人的姓名，而不仅仅是电子邮件地址

Question

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 ?

Answer 1

Try this format, note the spaces and the \\r\\n's, change your variables accordingly:

$email_headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$email_headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$email_headers .='From: YOURNAME <sender_email@yourdomain.com>' . "\r\n";
$email_headers .='Reply-To: reply_to_email@yourdomain.com' . "\r\n";

mail($recipient_address, $email_subject, $email_body, $email_headers);

Answer 2

<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Quoted from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php