PHP Code email Autoreply Help please

mohamedselim · Mar 21, 2011

i have a page in my website with PHP , that do a customer comment and it send me an emails for those comments , and then send an automatic email to the customer , but my only problem is that i want the customer to receive the email as it is from the email i got my emails on , but when the customer received the email it received as my username in my host site @ hostsite.com

i want to solve this please thanks.

here is the code :

<?php
require_once('recaptchalib.php');

$errFlag=0;
$showForm=1;

//KEEP YOUR PRIVATE KEY HERE
$privatekey = ""; // << replace this key with yours

function isValidEmail($email){
return filter_var(filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
}

if (isset($_POST["submit"])){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$lname=$_POST['lname'];
$phone=$_POST['phone'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$message=$_POST['message'];

if(empty($_POST))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter all the field.";
}
if(empty($name))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter your First Name.";
}
if(empty($lname))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter your Last Name.";
}
if(empty($phone))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter phone number.";
}
elseif(!is_numeric($phone))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter valid phone number.";
}
if(empty($email))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter an email address.";
}
elseif(!isValidEmail($email))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter an valid email address.";
}

if(empty($message))
{
$errMsg[]="Please enter message.";
}

/* captcha validation */
$resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey,
$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
$_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],
$_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);

if (!$resp->is_valid) {
// What happens when the CAPTCHA was entered incorrectly
$errMsg[]="The CAPTCHA wasn't entered correctly. Please try it again.";
}

if(empty($errMsg))
{
// if there is no error then send a mail
$ToEmail = '[email protected]'; // CHANGE YOUR EMAIL WHERE YOU WANT TO RECEIVE THE CONTACT FORM SUBMITTED BY USERS...
$EmailSubject = 'Customer Comments ';
$mailheader = "From: ".$email."\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
$mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$name." ".$lname."<br>";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Phone: ".$phone."<br>";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Email: ".$email."<br>";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Comment: ".nl2br($message)."<br>";
mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");
if(mail)
{
$msg="Thank your for submitting the form, we will contact your shortly.";
$showForm=0;
mail($email, "Thank your for submitting.", $msg);
} else
{
$msg="Some errors occured, please try again in a while.";
}
} else
{
$errFlag=1;
}

}

?>
<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="http://www.divineenergyhealing.co/favicon.ico">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Customer Comments</title>
<meta name="description" content="Customer Comments">
<link rel="File-List" href="reiki website/Reiki/Customer Comments_files/filelist.xml">

<base target="_self">


<style type="text/css">
/* error and success msg */
#errMsg { background-color:#febbbb; border:1px solid #d31a1c; color:#d31a1c; font-size:12px; padding:10px; margin-bottom:15px;}
#successMsg { background-color:#ffffff; border:1px solid #ffffff; color:#000000; font-size:16px; padding:10px; margin-bottom:15px; margin-top:25px;}

#contact_form { position: absolute; width: 888px; height: 365px; z-index: 1; left: 190px; top: 128px;}

#contact_form form label { display:block;}
contact_form p { margin-bottom:10px;}
.auto-style1 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
</style>

</head>

<body link="#0000FF" vlink="#800000" alink="#FF0000">

<p>
</p>
<p align="left"> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>

<p align="left"> </p>

<div id="contact_form" style="left: 192px; top: 102px">
<?php
if($errFlag)
{
echo "<div id='errMsg'>";
foreach($errMsg as $val)
{
echo "- ";
echo $val;
echo "<br />";
}
echo "</div>";
}
?>
<?php if($showForm){ ?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" name="contact_form" method="post">
<p>
<label for="name">First Name</label>
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['name'])) echo $_POST['name']; ?>" />
</p>
<p style="height: 45px">
<label for="lname">Last Name</label><input name="lname" type="text" id="lname" style="width: 148px; height: 22px" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['lname'])) echo $_POST['lname']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="phone">Phone Number</label>
<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['phone'])) echo $_POST['phone']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="email">Email Address</label>
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['email'])) echo $_POST['email']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="message">Customer Comments</label>
<textarea name="message" id="message" style="width: 247px; height: 84px" rows="999"><?php if (isset($_POST['message'])) echo $_POST['message']; ?></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<?php
//PUT YOUR PUBLIC KEY HERE
$publickey = ""; // << replace this key
echo recaptcha_get_html($publickey);
?>
</p>

<p><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" /> <input name="reset" type="reset" value="Reset" /></p>
</form>
<?php } else { ?>
<div id="successMsg" class="auto-style1">Thanks for your comments and questions we appreciate that you took the time to send us..</div>
<?php }?>
</div>

</body>

</html>

jacobatwood · Mar 21, 2011

You have to use the mail function in your php script that parses the form. Please check the php manual for how to use it at :

www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php for the reference.

baxter · Mar 21, 2011

Change this line:

Code:

mail($email, "Thank your for submitting.", $msg);

to: ( Replacing <EMAIL> with the email you want it sent from )

Code:

$headers = 'From: <EMAIL>' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: <EMAIL>';

mail($email, "Thank your for submitting.", $msg, $headers);

Cheers,

Jay

maximum · Mar 22, 2011

baxter:tu:

CrackFeed.Com · Mar 22, 2011

Ouch, don't touch the mail() function. Bad juju. Mail() = no no no no no :D

Checkout php mailer for php4 and use this function:

PHP:

if (!function_exists('sendEmail')) {
	function sendEmail($email,$subject,$message) {
		Global $smtphost,$smtpport,$smtpfromaddress,$smtpfrompassword,$smtpfromaddress,$smtpfromname;
	   	require('/path/to/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
	   	$mail = new PHPMailer();
	   	$mail->IsSMTP();
	   	$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
	   	$mail->SMTPAuth = TRUE;
	   	$mail->IsHTML(TRUE);
	   	$mail->Host    = $smtphost;
	   	$mail->Port    = $smtpport;
	   	$mail->Username  = $smtpfromaddress;
	   	$mail->Password  = $smtpfrompassword;
	   	$mail->From    = $smtpfromaddress;
	   	$mail->FromName  = $smtpfromname;
	   	$mail->Subject  = $subject;
	   	$mail->Body    = nl2br(htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($message)));
	   	$mail->AltBody  =  htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($message));
	   	$mail->AddAddress($email, $email);
	   	if(!$mail->Send()) {
	   		return false;
	   	} else {
	   		return true;
	   	}
	}
}

To use just do this:

PHP:

$smtphost 	= 'mail.YOURDOMAIN.com';
$smtpfromname 	= 'NAME SENDING AS';
$smtpfromaddress = '[email protected]';
$smtpfrompassword = 'YOURPASSWORD';
$smtpport = 26; // or port 25 usually
if (!sendEmail($email,$subject,$message) {
         // email did not send so now what? Maybe THEN try using mail() as a backup.
} else {
        // ok, the email sent via php mailer... groovy.
}

Now you are less likely to be put into a spam folder and most likely for your email to reach it's destination. mail() blows chunks.

Send the $message to the function in plain text with \n for line breaks and this will send a plain text and html format email in one. This is good practice.

Good luck!

Peter · Mar 26, 2011

DomainerHelper said:
Checkout php mailer for php4 and use this function:

I seriously hope you are not still using PHP 4. PHP 4 is now defunct and does not get proper updates. If you are still using PHP 4 ten I seriously suggest upgrading or changing host if they do not offer it.

The PHP 5 version of that package is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/files/phpmailer for php5_6/

Eric · Mar 26, 2011

Peter said:
I seriously hope you are not still using PHP 4. PHP 4 is now defunct and does not get proper updates. If you are still using PHP 4 ten I seriously suggest upgrading or changing host if they do not offer it.

The PHP 5 version of that package is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/files/phpmailer for php5_6/

Indeed. But SwiftMailer is even better.

CrackFeed.Com · Mar 26, 2011

Of course not, I posted the php4 version because I do not know what the guy uses. You know, "Keep it simple". Relax peeps. I run PHP 5.3.6, I have dedicated. Anyhoo, stay away from the mail() construct, is my point.

rolandkeys · Mar 29, 2011

How to configure swiftmail with and smtp authentication and ssl connection port?...

Thanks in advance

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