Answer-to address in php contact form

Question

I bought a simple website template with php contact form. Everything works fine with one small exception, actually receiving messages submitted via the form. That is, the contact form will show a success message, but the message will never come.

After a long break with my hosting service, I found out that in order to avoid spoofing, they will not allow sending email messages where the FROM address that they do not post. That is, if a site visitor writes down his gmail / yahoo, etc. In uniform, I won’t get it.

They suggested using the email address hosted with them as the FROM address and having the visitor's email address as the REPLY-TO address. That seems reasonable.

So, I dug (for example, here: PHP response to the error - it comes with the administrator’s email and not the contact form sender and php Contact form on the site and the response to the email )

and the answers offer something adding a header component:

$headers = 'From: [e-mail] ' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: [e-mail] ' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); 

and also add it to

 mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

so what i did. $ email is defined in this template as the email of the visitor, so I did this:

 $subject = "Contact Form: $name"; $message = "$message"; $headers = 'From: myemail@my _domain.com' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: $email' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

It's all good and dandy, but it still doesn't work. Do emails are passing now, but the details are:

 from: myemail@my _domain.com via servername.hosting_company.com **reply-to: $[e-mail] _company.com** to: myemail@my _domain.com 

therefore, the response to the address is still not what the visitor left.

Can you help me? I don’t know what else I can do.

Thank you very much!

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if anyone is interested, here is the complete php file:

 <?php // Clean up the input values foreach($_POST as $key => $value) { if(ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')) $_POST[$key] = stripslashes($_POST[$key]); $_POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($_POST[$key])); } // Assign the input values to variables for easy reference $name = $_POST["name"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $message = $_POST["message"]; // Test input values for errors $errors = array(); if(strlen($name) < 2) { if(!$name) { $errors[] = "You must enter a name."; } else { $errors[] = "Name must be at least 2 characters."; } } if(!$email) { $errors[] = "You must enter an email."; } else if(!validEmail($email)) { $errors[] = "You must enter a valid email."; } if(strlen($message) < 10) { if(!$message) { $errors[] = "You must enter a message."; } else { $errors[] = "Message must be at least 10 characters."; } } if($errors) { // Output errors and die with a failure message $errortext = ""; foreach($errors as $error) { $errortext .= "<li>".$error."</li>"; } die("<span class='failure'><h3>Sorry, The following errors occured:</h3><ol>". $errortext ."</ol><a href='contact.html' class='more'>Refresh Form</a></span>"); } // --------------------------------------// // Send the email // INSERT YOUR EMAIL HERE $to = " myemail@my _domain.com"; // --------------------------------------// $subject = "Contact Form: $name"; $message = "$message"; $headers = 'From: myemail@my _domain.com' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: $email' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); // Die with a success message die("<span class='success'><h3>Successfully Sent!</h3> Your message is on its way, we will respond to you shortly.</span>"); // A function that checks to see if // an email is valid function validEmail($email) { $isValid = true; $atIndex = strrpos($email, "@"); if (is_bool($atIndex) && !$atIndex) { $isValid = false; } else { $domain = substr($email, $atIndex+1); $local = substr($email, 0, $atIndex); $localLen = strlen($local); $domainLen = strlen($domain); if ($localLen < 1 || $localLen > 64) { // local part length exceeded $isValid = false; } else if ($domainLen < 1 || $domainLen > 255) { // domain part length exceeded $isValid = false; } else if ($local[0] == '.' || $local[$localLen-1] == '.') { // local part starts or ends with '.' $isValid = false; } else if (preg_match('/\\.\\./', $local)) { // local part has two consecutive dots $isValid = false; } else if (!preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9\\-\\.]+$/', $domain)) { // character not valid in domain part $isValid = false; } else if (preg_match('/\\.\\./', $domain)) { // domain part has two consecutive dots $isValid = false; } else if(!preg_match('/^(\\\\.|[A-Za-z0-9!#%&`_=\\/$\'*+?^{}|~.-])+$/', str_replace("\\\\","",$local))) { // character not valid in local part unless // local part is quoted if (!preg_match('/^"(\\\\"|[^"])+"$/', str_replace("\\\\","",$local))) { $isValid = false; } } if ($isValid && !(checkdnsrr($domain,"MX") || checkdnsrr($domain,"A"))) { // domain not found in DNS $isValid = false; } } return $isValid; } ?> 

Answer 1

Try changing this part of your code:

 $subject = "Contact Form: $name"; $message = "$message"; $headers = 'From: myemail@my _domain.com' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: $email' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); 

For this:

 $subject = "Contact Form: $name"; $message = "$message"; $headers = 'From: myemail@my _domain.com' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); 

Basically pull out $ email from within a single quote and add it to this line