PHP Contact Form Best Practice - php

Question

I'm setting up a PHP contact form on a site. I'm using the Swift Mailer library to send the mail, and my domain email is through Google Apps. Is it possible to use Google Apps for company email and use sendmail/SMTP on my VPS to send email from the contact page? The problem I'm having is that I can't dynamically generate the from address, Google's servers force that to be the email address that the email is going through. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I use PHPMailer with this function...
function email($to, $subject, $body){
require_once("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "email#domain.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->SetFrom("anything#domain.com", "Any Thing");
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AddAddress($to);
$mail->Send();
unset($mail);
}

Answer 2

After doing some reading, I realized that I didn't need a mail library at all. I'm using PHP's mail() function to accomplish exactly what I wanted, sending form mail through sendmail and having Google Apps handle all domain email. Here's the relevant code that's working for me.
// Define message variables
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
$name = stripslashes($_POST['name']);
$email = stripslashes($_POST['email']);
$body = stripslashes($_POST['body']);
}else{
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$body = $_POST['body'];
}
$subject = "Website Contact Form";
$recipient = "web#somesite.com";
$content = "NAME: $name, $email\nCOMMENT: $body\n";
$mailheader = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheader .= "From: $email\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Reply-To: $email\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Bcc: another.email#address.com" . "\r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $content, $mailheader) or die("Failure");
header("Location:/thankyou.php");
}
This is working perfectly for me. Hope it helps someone else.