How to replay to sender email from PHP instead of CGI-Mailer - php

Question

I have tried too many different ways to get reply-to from the $_request[email] but it keeps sending the mails with the $from CGI- mailer, although all the body on my mail work´s fine..
I have tried too many ways but i can't find where is my problem.. i have looked at several answers to this question here but not any one fixes my problem.. this is my code.
<?php
$subject = 'Contacact from website';
$to = 'contact#myhosting.com';
$emailTo = $_REQUEST['email'];
// an email address that will be in the From field of the email.
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email']; // i can't get this going to the reply-to section on the mail
$phone = $_REQUEST['phone'];
$msg = $_REQUEST['message'];
$email_from = $name.'<'.$email.'>';
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.1";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8";
$headers .= 'From: ' . $fromName . ' <' . $fromEmail .'>' . " \r\n" .
'Reply-To: '. $fromEmail . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
// Send email
mail($sendTo, $subject, $emailText, implode("\n", $headers));
$message .= 'Name : ' . $name . "\n";
$message .= 'Email : ' . $email . "\n";
$message .= 'phone : ' . $phone . "\n";
$message .= 'Message : ' . $msg;
if (#mail($to, $subject, $message, $email_from)) {
// Transfer the value 'sent' to ajax function for showing success message.
echo 'sent';
} else {
// Transfer the value 'failed' to ajax function for showing error message.
echo 'failed';
}
?>
and this is my form:
<form name="contactForm" id='contact_form' method="post" action='email.php'>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div id='name_error' class='error'>write your name</div>
<div>
<input type='text' name='name' id='name' class="form-control" placeholder="Name">
</div>
<div id='email_error' class='error'>Write a valid email</div>
<div>
<input type='email' name='email' id='email' class="form-control" placeholder="
email">
</div>
<div id='phone_error' class='error'>Write a phone number.</div>
<div>
<input type='tel' name='phone' id='phone' class="form-control" placeholder="Your name">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div id='message_error' class='error'>Please write your message here</div>
<div>
<textarea name='message' id='message' class="form-control"
placeholder="Message or quotation"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-12">
<p id='submit'>
<input type='submit' id='send_message' value='Enviar' class="btn btn-line">
</p>
<div id='mail_success' class='success'>We received your message :)</div>
<div id='mail_fail' class='error'>Please try again :/</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

There are a few things wrong with what you posted.
Firstly, the first line for this block of code:
$message .= 'Name : ' . $name . "\n";
$message .= 'Email : ' . $email . "\n";
$message .= 'phone : ' . $phone . "\n";
$message .= 'Message : ' . $msg;
should not have a leading dot for $message .=, it should read as:
$message = 'Name : ' . $name . "\n";
Then this line:
if (#mail($to, $subject, $message, $email_from))
Since you're using $email_from as the last argument, mail() as you did for the other instance where you are sending mail, is using a valid From: with an E-mail address as it's coming "from", when the 2nd one does not contain that, you only declared it as $email_from = $name.'<'.$email.'>';.
What you will need to do is add the From: as you did for the first mailing instance.
Side note: The # symbol is an error suppressor. You might want to remove that during testing/development.
Consult the manual on the mail() function for more detail:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php