Contact form reply to sender-CodePudding

So I've completed a contact form made in PHP. After testing it sends emails, but in the email header it is not capturing the sender's name or email address. It shows up as [email protected]

Is there a way to correct that? I need to be able to respond to emails.

The inputs are as follows:

<form id="contact" action="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

<input  type="text" name="name" placeholder="Text input" value="<?= $name ?>" >
<p ><?= $name_error ?></p>

<input  type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email Address" value="<?= $email?>">
<p ><?= $email_error?></p>

// back-end file

$sendTo = '[email protected]';
        $subject = 'Business Enquiry';
        $headers = "";

        $headers .= "Sent From: ".$name. "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Reply To: ".$email. "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Message: ".$message. "\r\n";

        if (mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers)) {

            $success = "Thank you for your message, I will reply as soon as I can.";
            $name = $email = $message = ''; // resets all fields
        }

CodePudding user response：

You cannot pick the names of the headers freely, you have to adhere to the standard (RFC 5322 Internet Message Format).

Your header "Sent From" should be just From, your header "Reply To" should be Reply-To and your header "Message" shouldn't be in the headers at all - you already pass the message as such into the mail function.

CodePudding user response：

All fixed now, thanks. All I needed was to specify one header ,

$headers = "From: ".$email;

So it's just $subject and $headers