php form mail coming from "Nobody"

I have some small php forms in some of my sites. They work fine, I get the emails. I can specify the subject. I have it set up to reply to the email of the person who filled out the form. When I get the form email they come from "Nobody" Can I change that to "your website" or other? If so, how.

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[Stef]

In the php mail function you can set other headers like this:

PHP Code:

...
$subject = "Contact form";
$headers = "From: your website\n";
...
mail ($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers); 


Stef.

This is what I have but no matter what I put for From, it always comes from NOBODY. Tried to do a $_POST['firstname'] also, but no luck. The subject and reply to work like they should. Thought there might be something in the control panel to make this change.
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$recipient = "info@mysite.com";
$subject = "CONTACT FORM from mysite.com";

$mailheaders = "From: Visitor inquiry\n";
$mailheaders = "Reply-To:". $_POST['email']."\n\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

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[Serra]

Originally Posted by happynewcust

This is what I have but no matter what I put for From, it always comes from NOBODY. Tried to do a $_POST['firstname'] also, but no luck. The subject and reply to work like they should. Thought there might be something in the control panel to make this change.
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$recipient = "info@mysite.com";
$subject = "CONTACT FORM from mysite.com";

$mailheaders = "From: Visitor inquiry\n";
$mailheaders = "Reply-To:". $_POST['email']."\n\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

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You didn't include a from address. If you format it correctly, it will work fine:
$FromName = "user";
$fromemail = "MyEmail@mydomain.com";
$mailheaders = "From: ".$FromName." <".$fromemail.">";

[Stef]

Originally Posted by happynewcust

$recipient = "info@mysite.com";
$subject = "CONTACT FORM from mysite.com";

$mailheaders = "From: Visitor inquiry\n";
$mailheaders = "Reply-To:". $_POST['email']."\n\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

What you do in your code is putting the From header in $mailheaders and then overwriting $mailheaders with the Reply-To value.
Instead you should concatenate the two headers in the $mailheaders variable:

PHP Code:

$mailheaders = "From: Visitor inquiry\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To:". $_POST['email']."\n\n"; 


Note the dot before = in the second line.

Stef.