PHP mail question

[jawn_tech]

After setting up a form using PHP to email me the form contents, of course the sender address displays as a www address coming from the server.

I need to build another form with a different recipient, and I want to be able to rename the sender just for display purposes in the recipient's email inbox. Know what I mean? In other words, sometimes you see your email arrive as being from "John Doe" instead of "johndoe@xyz.com". I want to have the php-sent email arrive in our inbox as "Feedback Form" instead of "www.serveraddress.web.host.abcdefg..."

Is there a PHP command that does this?

[jawn_tech]

Cool - problem solved already, so I'll post the solution in case anyone else was wondering how to do this.

In your PHP's mail() command line, you can add a $header variable.

$header = "From: Feedback User <companyname@company.net>";

Then include it in your mail command.

mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $header);

This way, when you co-worker opens her email, in Outlook for example (outlook...blech), she will see "Feedback User" displayed as the sender.

I don't know why it wasn't working for me without the <> part. Well, at least it works.