PHP Form - Problem with reply e-mail

Question

The contact form is working just fine but I can't figure how to setup the "reply mail". The PHP code is as follows:

<?php
// Get Data 
$name = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
$email = strip_tags($_POST['email']);
$message = strip_tags($_POST['message']);

// Send Message
mail( "Message from $name",
"Name: $name\nEmail: $email\nMessage: $message\n",
"From: $name <forms@example.net>" );
?>

What I tried to do is replace "forms@example.com" with $email but for some reason it crashes and never sends anything.

Probably failing because you have not specified arguments correctly to `mail()` See the documentation: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php — Michael Berkowski, May 18 '11 at 18:35

Michael Berkowski · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18T18:43:02.633

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Is it just the Reply-to: reply@example.com header you're missing in your mail headers block? Also, looks like you're missing the first parameter to the mail() function, which should be the address it's sent to.

Add the Reply-to header into the third parameter to mail().

// Send Message
mail($to_address, "Message from $name",
  // Message
  "Name: $name\nEmail: $email\nMessage: $message\n",
  // Additional headers
  "From: $name <forms@example.net>\r\nReply-to: reply@example.com"
);

EDIT I missed a comma in the question and thought the whole block was the message, including name & from. Edited above. I see you already had a header block.

edited May 18 '11 at 18:43

answered May 18 '11 at 18:34

Michael Berkowski

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You should separate the headers with `\r\n`. – dtbarne May 18 '11 at 18:39
I made the changes and replaced reply@example.com by $email but it's still showing in the reply field. – Renan May 18 '11 at 18:45
Please post the full email headers from the received message then. Even better, post the full message headers and body. – Michael Berkowski May 18 '11 at 18:48
Oh my bad I didn't see the EDIT. I'll try again and let you know. – Renan May 18 '11 at 18:50
I'll be back in half an hour or a few more. This last test worked but messed with the page. – Renan May 18 '11 at 18:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '11 at 18:47

You aren't using the correct parameters for the mail function. Take a look at the documentation

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

In your case, it would be:

mail( $to,
$subject,
$message,
"From: $name <forms@example.net>" );

Assuming that you gave it a $to (which denotes who to send the email to) and a $subject (the subject of the email).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '11 at 18:53

Take this snippet:

 <?php
    //define the receiver of the email
    $to = 'youraddress@example.com';
    //define the subject of the email
    $subject = 'Test email';
    //define the message to be sent. Each line should be separated with \n
    $message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my first mail.";
    //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
    $headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster@example.com";
    //send the email
    $mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
    //if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
    echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
    ?>

In your code, you missed the first argument, witch should be to who.

PHP Form - Problem with reply e-mail

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