I have some php here that works great. I want a mail to be sent to the user who submits a form and I also want a copy of that mail sent to myself but I don't want my email address to be made available to the user.
Here's the php I'm using to govern the mail sending ...
$to = 'xxxx#xxxx.com' . ', ';
$to .= $email;
$subject = 'xxxx';
$message = "Thank you for submitting the form.";
$headers = "From: xxxx#xxxx.com\r\nReply-To: xxxx#xxxx.com";
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
When the code is parsed emails are duly sent to both the users submitted email ($email) and the address I enter in the first $to variable however the user can see the email address I enter as another recipient when they receive the email. Anyone know how I can get around this? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
Use a BCC header instead of an additional To in your $headers string. It stands for "Blind Carbon Copy", and instructs the mail server to duplicate the mail to extra recipients, but remove that header from the original copy, so the main recipients can't know it was there.
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I am trying to send email from a web page hosted on a shared platform over at fasthosts. I cannot for the life of me get this to work, I had a much more extensive script which checked the validity of email etc, but now I've been reduced to using the basic example from fasthosts and it is still not working.
Please could someone take a look and let me now where I am going wrong...
<?php
// You only need to modify the following two lines of code to customise your form to mail script.
$email_to = "contact#mywebsite.co.uk"; // Specify the email address you want to send the mail to.
$email_subject = "Feedback from website"; // Set the subject of your email.
// This is the important ini_set command which sets the sendmail_from address, without this the email won't send.
ini_set("contact#mywebsite", $email_from);
// Get the details the user entered into the form
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
// Validate the email address entered by the user
if(!filter_var($email_from, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
// Invalid email address
die("The email address entered is invalid.");
}
// The code below creates the email headers, so the email appears to be from the email address filled out in the previous form.
// NOTE: The \r\n is the code to use a new line.
$headers = "From: " . $email_from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $email_from . "\r\n"; // (You can change the reply email address here if you want to.)
// Now we can construct the email body which will contain the name and message entered by the user
$message = "Name: ". $name . "\r\nEmail: " . $email . "\r\nMessage: " . $message ;
// Now we can send the mail we've constructed using the mail() function.
// NOTE: You must use the "-f" parameter on Fasthosts' system, without this the email won't send.
$sent = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $message, $headers, "-f" . $email_from);
// If the mail() function above successfully sent the mail, $sent will be true.
if($sent) {
$output = json_encode(array('type'=>'message', 'text' => 'Hi '.$name .' Thank you for contacting us.'));
die($output);
} else {
$output = json_encode(array('type'=>'error', 'text' => 'Could not send mail! Please check your PHP mail configuration.'));
die($output);
}
?>
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Ive been trying this out the whole day but I cant figure out how to send an email from my html contact form containing the information from the form to my email address. Im new to php.
Ive tried running this by uploading it to free web hosting. I get the message "success!" when I press the submit button on my html form but no email is actually sent.
Any help is appreciated.
PHP script:
<?php
//Subject
$subject ="Contact Form Submission";
// Name
$name =$_POST['InputName'];
// Message
$message =$_POST['InputMessage'];
//Mail of Sender
$email =$_POST['InputEmail'];
//From
$header = "From:$name<$email>";
$send_contact=mail("myemail#gmail.com",$subject,$message,$header);
//Check if mail was sent
if($send_contact){
echo "Success!";
}
else {
echo "Error!";
}
?>
EDIT: Figured it out after one whole day of trial and error. The problem was with the free web host I was using. Changed hosts and the code started working fine. Hope this helps someone in the future. Thanks all for the help.
I have a pretty good idea why your code is not working. It happened to me a long time ago. The reason why your code is not working is because :
When you pass "from" in headers, php expects an existing email account of your
server. For example : $headers = 'From: emailacc#yourserver.com';
So first thing you gotta do is create an email account on your server. And then put the From in header to the email address that you've just created.
The From field in the $headers is not the From as you think.
<?php
$email = $_POST["InputEmail"];
$subject = $_POST["InputSubject"];
$message = "From: ".$email.", ".$_POST["InputMessage"]; // you put the email address from the input form here
$headers = 'From: emailacc#yourserver.com'; // here is the email address specified from which u want to send the email.(i.e. your server email address)
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)
?>
I'm sure this will do the job :)
Have a shot at this.
I changed you're $header variable around a little bit, so that rather than setting the email as "$email", It'll actually pass through the posted email entered in the form. This apply's to the name too.
I also made it so that you pass the mail function through the parameters of the if statement, rather than setting a new variable.
$headers = "From: " . $name . "<" . $email . ">"; // notice new concatenation
if(mail("myemail#gmail.com", "Contact Form Submission", $message, $headers)){
// success message
} else {
// error message
}
Really hope this helps! :)
Try adding spaces after the "=" that might be the problem,
If that doesn't work you could try to use this
<?php
$emailvariable = $_POST['InputEmail']
$to = 'example#gmail.com';
$subject = "Form"
$message = $_POST['InputMessage'];
$headers = "From: $emailvariable";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Hope this helps
Even this must have been be asked many times, I will ask again since I cannot get it to work.
I am using php mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $mysite<$myemail>\nX-Mailer:PHP/" .phpversion()); to send email to a single recipient.
Now I need to sent it to more than one recipients. I know that normaly I could do:
$to = "emailA#here.com,emailB#there.com";
But I need the one of the recipients to be the user that fills in the form e.g.:
//get all form details
$email = $_POST['email'];
$to = "$email,emailB#there.com";
The above ($to) I don't know if it is correct or not but is not working for me...
If I leave only the $to = "$email"; it gets send to $email (meaning that my rest of the code is ok).
Any suggestion on what is or may be wrong here?
Thank you.
Add a CC to your header.
$header ="From: $mysite<$myemail>" . PHP_EOL;
$header .= 'CC: emailB#there.com' . PHP_EOL;
//Rest of headers here
This is my Code :
<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'dannyfeher69#gmail.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email';
//define the message to be sent.
$message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my mail.";
//define the headers we want passed.
$header = "From: me#localhost.com";
//send the email
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message);
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
-- it returns mail failed
Please help me
There are several reasons this could fail. The main obstacle to finding the cause is the use of the error control operator (#) in front of the call to the mail() function.
Other possible reasons are the lack of a valid From header. Although you define one in the $header variable, you don't pass it to the mail() function. It's also important that the From header is a valid email address on the domain you're sending the email from. If it isn't, most hosting companies will now reject the email as spam. You might also need to supply a fifth parameter to mail(), which normally consists of a string comprised of -f followed by a valid email address on the current domain.
Yet another possibility is that you are trying to send this from your own computer. The mail() function doesn't support SMTP authentication, so most mail servers will reject mail from sources they don't recognize.
And just to add to all your problems, newlines in emails must be a combination of carriage return followed by newline. In PHP, this is "\r\n", not "\n\n".
Assuming you're using a remote server to send the mail, the code should look something like this:
<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'dannyfeher69#gmail.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email';
//define the message to be sent.
$message = "Hello World!\r\nThis is my mail.";
//define the headers we want passed.
$header = "From: me#localhost.com"; // must be a genuine address
//send the email
$mail_sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
I want to make an email forwarder similar to cPanel's, where I have a database of email addresses, and where they should forward to, and I set a catch-all to pipe to my script.
I have completed this script, however, I would like to make the "To:" field in the header show the address it was sent to, rather than who is was being delivered to. For example, the email was sent to user001#mydomain.com, and the script forwards it to me#gmail.com. How can I make PHP send mail to me#gmail.com, but still show user001#mydomain.com in the headers, like cPanel does?
You can use the headers of the mail function:
$to = 'me#gmail.com';
$subject = 'Testing';
$message = 'This is a test';
$headers .= 'To: User001 <user001#mydomain.com>, User002 <user002#mydomain.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: My Email Script <me#gmail.com>' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);