Re: mail prob

From: "W.D." <suedeuno@yahoo.com> > well this is actually what I did tho, I used an $email var and set it too > $from which I used mail()....and it still came out as nobody > Can you show us the PHP code you're using please. Ta > > From: "W.D." <suedeuno@yahoo.com> > > > > > so there is no way to pull this variable from an email form field? > > > > > > > > > Eh? Of course, $from can be set by a form field if you want. Or a > database, > > or any way you can set a variable. Then pass it to mail(), per my last > > message. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: "W.D." <suedeuno@yahoo.com> > > > > > > > > > I'm using a remote host, and when I call mail() with all the > > > > > var's > > > pulling > > > > > values from form fields, it still shows as nobody in from header. Is > > > this > > > > a > > > > > server situation? Theyre using php4 support and they claim its that > > I'm > > > > not > > > > > using appropriate variables in the function. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You have to set the From header manually: > > > > > > > > > > > > <?php > > > > $to = "who@where.com"; > > > > $from = "me@myserver.com"; > > > > $subject = "Blah"; > > > > $body = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet."; > > > > > > > > mail($to, $subject, $body, "From: $from"); > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > Simon Garner > > > > > > > >