PHP mail function 'from' address

Question

I'm not even sure this is possible, however what I'm trying to do is as follows. I have an HTML form that generates and email using a PHP script. What I want is to recieve emails from this form to abc@xyz.com , then I want the from address to appear as one of the fields in the form.

I have had a look around and found some useful information on this site . I'm not sure whether sendmail_from can be used in this situation, or if it does what I'm asking.

Is this possible, if so how?

Answer 1

See this page on the same site (example 2): http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mail_mail.asp

You will have to set the headers of the message to include the From and other stuff like CC or BCC:

<?php
$to = "somebody@example.com";
$subject = "My subject";
$txt = "Hello world!";
$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\n";

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

Note that you have to separate the headers with a newline sequence "\\r\\n" .

Answer 2

For a php mail script I have used this for contact forms:

$from = $_POST["from"];  //posted from the form.

mail("me@myname.com", $subject, $message, "From:" . $from);

I have not used a sendmail_from in my php before, only a simple variable.

I hope this helps!

Answer 3

Any reason you cant do it in the email headers?

$to      = 'hello@hello.com';
$subject = 'my subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from_form. "\r\n";

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