How do I display the user's name before the their email address when sending PHP mail?

Question

For example in the Gmail application, when clicking "show details" there would be

"To: whatever@gmail.com". What I want is to show a full name before that, for example:"My Name whatever@gmail.com".

I think I would have to add something within $to = "whatever@gmail.com" . Any idea on how to achieve this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Copy/paste from the docs:

$to_name = "Mary";
$to_address = "mary@example.com";
// Additional headers
$headers[] = 'To: '.$to_name.' <'.$to_address.'>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>'; // <-- this is what you want?
$headers[] = 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>';
$headers[] = 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com';
$headers[] = 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com';

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));

Answer 2

If you have the IMAP extension you can use imap_rfc822_write_address() .

echo imap_rfc822_write_address("hartmut", "example.com", "Hartmut Holzgraefe");

Or you can just wing it and hope everyone uses "safe" email addresses.

echo "$name <$email>";

The actual header would be:

To: NameHere <email@example.com>\r\n