Email from form shows from web user

Apologies if this isnt a php issue im not 100% sure but i noticed that when i send an email from a form on my site it shows up that its from “web user” and a question mark


is there anyway to change this?

<?php
/* Set e-mail recipient */
$myemail = "me@example.com, another@example.com";//"YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS";
 
/* Check all form inputs using check_input function */
$name = check_input($_POST['name'], "Enter your name");
$email = check_input($_POST['email']);
$message = check_input($_POST['message'], "Write your message");
 
/* If e-mail is not valid show error message */
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/", $email))
{
show_error("E-mail address not valid");
}
/* Let's prepare the message for the e-mail */
$message = "
 
Name: $name
E-mail: $email
 
Message:
$message
 
";
 
/* Send the message using mail() function */
mail($myemail, "AllenTrey Prod.", $message);
 
/* Redirect visitor to the thank you page */
header('Location: contact.html');
exit();
 
/* Functions we used */
function check_input($data, $problem='')
{
$data = trim($data);
$data = stripslashes($data);
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);
if ($problem && strlen($data) == 0)
{
show_error($problem);
}
return $data;
}
 
function show_error($myError)
{
?>
<html>
<body>
 
<p>Please correct the following error:</p>
<strong><?php echo $myError; ?></strong>
<p>Hit the back button and try again</p>
 
</body>
</html>
<?php
exit();
}
?>

This should be an easy fix but could you provide some code so that people can assist you properly!?

i added the code ; any advice at all would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

What actually shows in the email header, rather than what your email client shows? You don’t actually set the “from” address anywhere in that code, so it must be getting a default from somewhere.

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