contact form woes

sending email from a webpage

[fwordboy]

I have a php page with a contact form on it.
I can get it to send the email but it always says its from Nobody with email [e-mail]

here's my code

<?php
 if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['submit'])) {
 $subject=($HTTP_POST_VARS['title']);
 $body=($HTTP_POST_VARS['message']);
 $from=($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender']);
 &sender_email=($HTTP_POST_VARS['email']);
 
 mail('[e-mail]', $subject, $body, $from, &sender_email);
echo ' <h3>Your email has been sent</h3>
 <p>Thanks '. ($HTTP_POST_VARS['name']) .'</p>
 ';
}
 else{
?>
<form id="email" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
<fieldset>
<label for="sender">Your name</label><input id="sender" name="sender"><br>
<label for="email">Your email</label><input id="email" name="email"><br>
<label for="title">Subject</label><input id="title" name="title"><br>
<label for="message">Message</label><textarea id="message" name="message" cols="1" rows="1"></textarea><br>
     <input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="send">
    </fieldset>
</form>

please help me out.

[dcrombie]

The mail() function doesn't work like that.
You need to RTM: mail [php.net]

[fwordboy]

okay so i've fixed it now.

Edit:

no i haven't, sorry false alarm

[Timotheos]

Have you tried it according to what the php manual says under the mail function?

The additional_parameters parameter can be used to pass an additional parameter to the program configured to use when sending mail using the sendmail_path configuration setting. For example, this can be used to set the envelope sender address when using sendmail with the -f sendmail option. You may need to add the user that your web server runs as to your sendmail configuration to prevent a 'X-Warning' header from being added to the message when you set the envelope sender using this method. Example 3. Sending mail with extra headers and setting an additional command line parameter.

<?php
mail("[e-mail]", "the subject", $message,
"From: webmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}", "-fwebmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}");
?>

[fwordboy]

so why doesn't this code work?

<?php
 if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['submit'])) {
 $subject=($HTTP_POST_VARS['title']);
 $message=($HTTP_POST_VARS['message']).'\n '.($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender']).'\n '.($HTTP_POST_VARS['email']);
 $headers .= '"From: '.($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender']).' <'.($HTTP_POST_VARS['email']). '>\r\n"';
 
 mail('[e-mail], $subject, $message, $headers);
echo '  <h3>Your email has been sent</h3>
 <p>Thanks '. ($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender']) .'</p>
 ';
}
 else{
?>

i get the email with the body conatining the message along with sender's name and email address but in the from box in my mailbox it says it from Nobody!

[fwordboy]

fixed it

$headers .= "From: \"".($HTTP_POST_VARS['sender'])."\" <".($HTTP_POST_VARS['email']).">\n";

thanks for everyone's help. i find php very difficult to learn,it still kicks perl's ass but i am yet to find tutorial (including the manual) that explains it in a way i can understand.