Question

I’m going to try my best to not phrase this confusingly. I am trying to make a php script that can send an email to a specified address and I would like control over the name that the email reports it was send from(this way I can make it my company name), the address it was sent from(this way the recipient knows who to reply to if they need to) and the reply-to address. I found this tool online which is like what I would like on steroids. I just need the basics so that when a user tries to contact me or if I use this form to contact a user all the information is correct and its as simple as typing up a body and hitting send(as the name, reply to address, and address would just be constant variables). Heres the tool I found that I am trying to semi duplicate: http://emkei.cz

As you can see you can put in any info and it will send the email with that information. I Just need to make a simpler version of this.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Assuming I have read your question correctly, and with reference to the PHP manual (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php) I think the syntax you need is:

<?php
$to      = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: Webmaster <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

etc?

There are loads of Headers to set, as appropriate… the manual is worth a read.