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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Sending Our Email

Jon Mullins
Jon Mullins
15,724 Points
Posted by Jon Mullins
Jon Mullins
15,724 Points

swiftmailer smtp on gmail does not populate "from" field properly

Hi, I have created a contact form for my site using swiftmailer. Everything works as expected, except the "from" field contains my gmail address instead of the email the site visitor enters in the form. What's odd is the "reply to address IS set to the value entered in the form. Here is my code:

$app->post('/contact', function() use($app){
  $name = $app->request->post('name');
  $email = $app->request->post('email');
  $msg = $app->request->post('msg');
  if(!empty($name) && !empty($email) && !empty($msg)) {
      $cleanName = filter_var($name, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
      $cleanEmail = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
      $cleanMsg = filter_var($msg, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
    } else {
      //message that there was a problem
      $app->redirect('./contact');
    }

    $transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 465, 'ssl')
      ->setUsername('myAccount@gmail.com')
      ->setPassword('myAwesOmE_PaSsw0rd');
    $mailer = \Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

    $message = \Swift_Message::newInstance();
    $message->setSubject('Email from our website');
    $message->setFrom(array(
      $cleanEmail => $cleanName
    ));
    $message->setReplyTo($cleanEmail);
    $message->setTo('theEmailWhereIW@ntTheMessage.com');
    $message->setBody($cleanMsg);

    $result = $mailer->send($message);

    if($result > 0) {
     //send a thank you message
      $app->redirect('./');
    } else {
      //send alert that the message failed to send
      //log the error
      $app->redirect('./contact');
    }
Hammad Ahmed
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Hammad Ahmed
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,910 Points

I think $message->replyTo must be given your email.