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Outgoing Email with PHP
Topic Started: Jun 24 2009, 01:21 PM (246 Views)
Will Jun 24 2009, 01:21 PM Post #1
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 I'm starting to become a little more familar with PHP. I do have a question for you verteran coders out there though: Is there any easy way to tell a PHP script who an e-mail is being sent from? I can tell the code where the email is being sent TO, but somehow altering the outgoing address is eluding me.

Any help would be gorgeous.

:ryan:
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ElementalAlchemist Jun 24 2009, 02:21 PM Post #2
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ERROR: This title does not exist.
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 Let me dig up the old contact form I used to use for AlchemyIRC.

ElementalAlchemist digs. Please be patient during this process. It may take anywhere from one minute to a while.

It appears I have this, which sends the mail if something was sent.
Code:
 
if ($sent=="yes") {
echo "<h1>Your message was sent successfully.</h1>";
$email = filter_var($_REQUEST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$message = filter_var($_REQUEST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$to = filter_var($_REQUEST['dest'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$subject = filter_var($_REQUEST['subject'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
mail( $to, $subject,
$message, "From: $email" );
}
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Jory Jun 24 2009, 03:15 PM Post #3
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 http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

See the third and fourth example. They include a bunch of headers you'll find usefull.

There are also a bunch of usefull user notes.

If you need a more powerfull1 and flexible solution and PEAR is installed, try PEAR::Mail. (If you don't have PEAR installed, ask your hosting provider. If they won't install it, you can download all the packages and then upload them yourself, although thats a bit more work.)

1: Well, technically its not more powerfull. But its much easier to do the more advanced things, so, err, easier power.
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Will Jun 24 2009, 03:51 PM Post #4
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 Problem resolved. Thanks for your help dudes. ^_^
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