PHP sending email, having control over 'from address'

Hello all,
Thanks for reading this query.

I am trying to send a mail with attachment using PHP and am facing 2 problems with it.

I am trying to do something similar to this code I found on net :


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$fileatt = "a.htm"; // Path to the file
$fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream"; // File Type
$fileatt_name = "a.htm"; // Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment

$email_from = "kk"; // Who the email is from
$email_subject = "hi"; // The Subject of the email
$email_message = "hello"; // Message that the email has in it

$email_to = "abc@hotmail.com"; // Who the email is too

$headers = "From: ".$email_from;



$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
            "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
            " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
                "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
                "Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
               "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$email_message . "\n\n";
/********************************************** First File ********************************************/
$fileatt = "a.htm"; // Path to the file
$fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream"; // File Type
$fileatt_name = "a.htm"; // Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment
$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
                  "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
                  " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
                  //"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
                  //" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
                  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
                 $data . "\n\n" .
                  "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
unset($data)
unset($file)
unset($fileatt)
unset($fileatt_type)
unset($fileatt_name)

// To add more files just copy the file section again, but make sure they are all one after the other! If they are not it will not work!


$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

if($ok) {
echo "<font face=verdana size=2>The file was successfully sent!</font>";
} else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");
}

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1) I am unable to have control over "from" address. How do I work about this? ie when teh mail reaches the person, the from address on the email is kk@servername.com?!?! Can I set my own from  address?

2) When I use teh above code as a function which calls it from another function, I get an error at
"unset($file)"
stating that unexpected unset and stuff, however if I run the program by itself there are no errors.

Please advice. Your help is appreciated.

Thanks.

regards,
KarthikStart Free Trial