php sendmail send-from address or/and name xampp hmail - php

Question

i read a lot regarding this issue, and didn't really get clear answer
i simply have local server at home which has xampp and sendmail is working fine... i am using the sendmail folder that comes with xampp and all is fine
i have uncommented the sendmail path address... and put my localhost smtp information, user/pass all ok... works fine
there is another option to
force_sender=test#domain.com
when using this, it sends the email ok, i get in my normal email clinet an email from address: test#domain.com... that is fine
problem is i really want to define the sender name, like comes from MAIL SENDER
something like FROM: "John "
tried with quotes in the force_sender place, no change... i have this mailbox exisited in my xampp (hmail server) and i put the settings there to use FIRST NAME and LAST name like John Smith, but didn't work... all the time just coming like from address format: test#domain.com
this is also similar, but nobody really could help me to clear this doubt and get rest - yet
From address is not working for PHP mail headers

Answer 1

if you want to set sender name than you have to set into in headers. try this
$senderName="John";
$senderEmail= "test#domain.com";
$recipient = "recipient#domain.com";
$subject ="testmail";
$message="test message";
$headers = "From: " . $senderName . " <" . $senderEmail . ">";
$success = mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers );

Answer 2

A better approach in php is to use the library phpmailer.
Sending an e-mail would look like this and you can set any fields you want (off course you don't always need that many as in the example).
I guess $mail->FromName = "Your name"; is what you're looking for.
<?php
require '/whereeveritis/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Enable SMTP debugging.
$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;
//Set PHPMailer to use SMTP.
$mail->isSMTP();
//Set SMTP host name
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
//Set this to true if SMTP host requires authentication to send email
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Provide username and password
$mail->Username = "youraddress#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "yourpasswordinplaintextyeah";
//If SMTP requires TLS encryption then set it
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
//Set TCP port to connect to
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->From = "name#gmail.com";
$mail->FromName = "Your name";
$mail->addAddress("name#example.com", "Recepient Name");
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Whatever good subject you like to use";
$mail->Body = "Mail body in HTML";
$mail->AltBody = "plain text version";
if(!$mail->send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent successfully";
}