Mail is not coming properly using php? - php

Question

I am using below simple code to send mail using php. when i echo the line $headers = "From: . $email\r\n"; //echo $headers; exit; which results like From: . test#email.com.
I found dot is printing before mail address , so mail is coming but not properly.If i remove dot , mail is not even coming.Whats wrong with this code ?
<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['user_email']))
//if "email" is filled out, send email
{
//send email
$email = $_REQUEST['user_email'];
$user_name = $_REQUEST['user_name'];
$user_message = $_REQUEST['user_message'];
include 'contact_mail_form.php';
$to = "testtest#gmail.com";
$message = $contactText;
$subject = "Test Mail";
$headers = "From: . $email\r\n"; //echo $headers; exit;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
}
else
//if "email" is not filled out, display the form
{
?>
<form id="contact_form" name="ContactForm" action="" method="post" onsubmit="return checkContact(this);">
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="fright">
<div class="name">Message:</div>
<textarea cols="1" rows="1" name="user_message" id="user_message" ></textarea>
<span class="clear"></span> </div>
<div class="fleft">
<div>
<div class="name">Your Name:</div>
<input type="text" class="input" name="user_name" id="user_name" />
<span class="clear"></span> </div>
<div>
<div class="name">E-mail:</div>
<input type="text" class="input" name="user_email" id="user_email" />
<span class="clear"></span> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="buttons"><a class="more" href="javaScript:void(0);" onClick="document.getElementById('contact_form').reset()">clear</a> <input class="more1" type="SUBMIT" class="button2" value="Send" name="" /> </div>
</form>
<?php } ?>

Answer 1

Try it like this your dot is acting as string not as concatenation
$headers = "From:" . $email."\r\n";
Maybe because \r\n should be surrounded with " not '
And Also
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html'. "\r\n";