I'm back again. Forgive my "noob" questions, but I'm having trouble with the email headers. Is there any way to have the "From" of an email replaced with the text of a form element? When the form submits without any $headers, I get an email from "myaccount(a)myserver.hostingcompany.com". When I add...

PHP Code:

$headers = "From: $name_field"; 


...the email header is blank. When I use...

PHP Code:

$headers = "From: 'name'"; 


...I get 'name'(a)myserver.hostingcompany.com. Is there any way to get the full text and just the text to appear? Here is the full code, if it helps.

PHP Code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "fake@email";
$subject = "Attendance Correction Form";
$headers = "From: $name_field";
$forward = 1;
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$department = $_POST['department'];
$supervisor = $_POST['supervisor'];
$date_correction = $_POST['datecorrection'];
$time_in = $_POST['timein'];
$lunch_out = $_POST['lunchout'];
$lunch_in = $_POST['lunchin'];
$time_out = $_POST['timeout'];
 
$body = "From: $name_field\n Department: $department\n Supervisor: $supervisor\n Date Needing Correction: $date_correction\n Time In: $time_in\n Lunch Out: $lunch_out\n Lunch In: $lunch_in\n Time Out: $time_out";
 
echo "Thank you. Your form has been submitted.";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

} else {

echo "ERROR!";

}
?>

Thanks for the help!

$name_field - check that you have defined this variable. Sound to me like your leaving it blank.

I thought I did, around line 8ish...

PHP Code:

$name_field = $_POST['name']; 


It's a logic problem.

$to = "you@yourhost.com";
$subject = "Attendance Correction Form";
$headers = "From: $name_field";
$forward = 1;
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$department = $_POST['department'];

You've simply assigned $headers to contain the value of $name_field BEFORE you defined what $name_field actually contains. If you define $headers AFTER you assign $name_field = $_POST['name'], you'll be good to go.

Awesome! Worked like a charm. Now just one last question on the subject, and I'll hang it up. I get the name field to post, but it comes in as "Fake Name@NONE" in Outlook and "Fake@yahoo" in Yahoo Mail, etc. Anyway it can look like this?

make it

PHP Code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "fake@email";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$subject = "Attendance Correction Form";
$headers = 'From: '."$name_field <noreply@example.com>"."\r\n";
$forward = 1;
$department = $_POST['department'];
$supervisor = $_POST['supervisor'];
$date_correction = $_POST['datecorrection'];
$time_in = $_POST['timein'];
$lunch_out = $_POST['lunchout'];
$lunch_in = $_POST['lunchin'];
$time_out = $_POST['timeout'];
 
$body = "From: $name_field\n Department: $department\n Supervisor: $supervisor\n Date Needing Correction: $date_correction\n Time In: $time_in\n Lunch Out: $lunch_out\n Lunch In: $lunch_in\n Time Out: $time_out";
 
echo "Thank you. Your form has been submitted.";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

} else {

echo "ERROR!";

}
?>

Thanks everyone for you help!