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Asked: 2026-06-03T11:32:15+00:00

Right, i’m new to PHP and mySQL, but i’ve got a few questions that

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Right, i’m new to PHP and mySQL, but i’ve got a few questions that i hope some of you guys can answer because this is confusing me right now.

(I’ll still try to read up more on google to see if i can find any answers whilst this is going on, so if i find any, i’ll post my own answers up here as well)

  1. I want a feedback form on my site. I’m looking at the PHP Email Forms but i’m kind of confused here —

On the API, it says that for someone to send an email to me, the php script needs to enter and send this code:

mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters)

However, i realise there is no “from” argument inside this function. Why is this so? How will i be able to find out the email of the other person and be able to reply to him/her via my own email after receiving such a feedback request?

I’m also reading on parts where people include the sender’s email into the “headers” argument itself. How will a mail system gather that there is a sender’s email if i include this inside the “header” argument? (I’m asking this part because my webhost provides an auto-reply before i reply, and i want it to be able to recognize that the sender’s email is the email that the system should auto-reply to)

Would it be easier to just put a mailto:email@email.com link on the webpage?

I think that’s pretty much all i’m trying to find out for now, i have more complex questions but i think i’ll try to solve the easier ones first.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out php mail in the manual

    additional_headers (optional)

    String to be inserted at the end of the email header.

    This is typically used to add extra headers (From, Cc, and Bcc). Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n).

    Example from the manual

    $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);

    Update:

    You also asked about putting the name in the from address. To do this just change the From: in the headers to WEBMASTER NAME <webmaster@example.com>

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