Posted by Bent Stigsen on 06/10/06 02:28

maya wrote:

> I'm learning how to send mail with php...
>
> only thing that mystifies me a bit is I can't get NAME of sender to
> appear in e-mail INBOX under "from"... I only see e-mail address.. I'm
> coming from Java, with Java you can set it up so whatever user puts
> under "name" in the form you can grab and in e-mail INBOX under "from"
> you see sender's name, not e-mail address.. I would like to be able to
> do this with php.. I've looked at various tutorials, and so far can't
> see how you can do this.. thank you..

If you use the mail-function, then there is an example of this in the
manual.
http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

From "Example 4.":
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";


/Bent

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