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**myshtern** · 09-09-2009, 02:52 PM

I'm not sure how to make get the replyto header in the email so that when we get the contact email and click on reply, it automatically goes to the users $email instead of the server email address.

Code:

<?php
$subject = "Contact Us Inquiry";
/* Set e-mail recipient */
$myemail  = "contactus@xyz.com";


/* Check all form inputs using check_input function */
$name = check_input($_POST['name'], "Enter your name");
$email    = check_input($_POST['email'], "Please enter your email address");
$text    = check_input($_POST['text'], "You've written no text in your inquiry");
$how_find = check_input($_POST['how'], "Please tell us how you found us");


/* If e-mail is not valid show error message */
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/", $email))
{
    show_error("E-mail address not valid");
}


/* Let's prepare the message for the e-mail */
$message = "Hello!

This is an inquiry from the contact us page. 

Name: $name
Located in $city $state
E-mail: $email
How did you find us? $how_find


Comments: $text

End of message
";

/* Send the message using mail() function */
mail($myemail, $subject, $message);

/* Redirect visitor to the thank you page */
include('complete.php');
exit();


/* Functions we used */
function check_input($data, $problem='')
{
    $data = trim($data);
    $data = stripslashes($data);
    $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
    if ($problem && strlen($data) == 0)
    {
        show_error($problem);
    }
    return $data;
}

function show_error($myError)
{
?>
    
    <html>
    <body>
	<font size="5">
    <b>Please correct the following error:</b><br />
    <?php echo $myError; ?><br /><br /><br />
       Click on the back button in your browser to correct it</font>
    

    </body>
    </html>
<?php
exit();
}
?>

**chrishirst** · 09-09-2009, 03:23 PM

if you have the senders email address put that in the "from" field.

**myshtern** · 09-09-2009, 10:28 PM

In my form, the user enters in their email address. When the form gets emailed to me, I want to be able to click reply and it automatically go back to the user.

As chrishirst suggested, I did -
$headers = "From: $email" . "\r\n";

However it's not working. It doesn't recognize $email. If i put it in something static like asd@asd.com it uses it. What are my options?

**chrishirst** · 09-10-2009, 04:30 PM

"from:" . $email.