How to change FROM name on contact form e-mails?

[kpmedia]

I learn visually, or by example. Having used vB for about a year now, I think I'm doing pretty good to only have asked three questions during that entire period. I've figured out almost everything I needed in that time. I appreciate that you're trying to help, but I'm not able to follow the logic that VB uses.

The phrase manager can also have variables. Okay, I guess I can go along with that. I did edit the sendmessage MESSAGE BODY that way.

The phrase "contactus" is now this:

$name ($email) is e-mailing you about
$subject

Message: $message

Contact Details:
IP: $ip
E-mail: $email
Forum Username: $bbuserinfo[username] (ID=$bbuserinfo[userid])
Referring Page: $url

and I changed it away from the default of:

The following message was sent to you via the $vboptions[bbtitle] Contact Us form by $name ( mailto:$email ).

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$message

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Referring Page: $url
IP Address: $ip
User Name: $bbuserinfo[username]
User ID: $bbuserinfo[userid]
Email: $email

I figured that out on my own just fine. I've edited many phrases in the past.

An unrelated default phrase is this:

$sendtoname,

This is a message from $bbuserinfo[username] ( mailto:$bbuserinfo[email] ) from the $vboptions[bbtitle] ( $vboptions[bburl]/ ).

The message is as follows:

$emailmessage

$vboptions[bbtitle] takes no responsibility for messages sent through its system.

I see that this code

$vboptions[bbtitle]

generates the forum name in that phrase, to be used in the send-to-friend e-mail feature.

I can search for that term, and it brings up a lot of e-mail body and e-mail subject phrases. None of those are pertinent. Neither the subject nor the body contain the from information that is found in the header of an e-mail, and displayed in e-mail software.

I'm not wanting to alter the subject or body anymore.

I changed this too:

$vboptions[bbtitle] Contact Us Form - $subject

to my own custom message. Again, did that on my own, long before posting here on the from-name problem.

I don't see that this is a phrase-referenced or phrase-held issue. If it is, I'm not seeing it, and I've looked dozens of times now. That's why I turned to the PHP code itself, and sought help here.

If this were held in the phrases, I would expect to see this somewhere:

$name @ $vboptions[bbtitle]

But I don't see that or anything close to it.

[Dismounted]

Actually, I apologise, first for taking it out on you, and myself just realising that you were looking at the actual header "from" field, I initially thought that you wanted to change the subject itself. The code you are looking for is line 216 of /includes/class_mail.php.

PHP Code:

$mailfromname = "$username @ " . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle']; 


[kpmedia]

Alright, after digging around some more on my own, I found it. It was, indeed, in the PHP code, not a phrase.

Open up class_mail.php and search for this line:

$mailfromname = "$username @ " . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'];

change it to

$mailfromname = "$username";

That did it.

Thanks for trying to help, but ya'll were just way off base with this one. If nothing else, your insistence that I look in phrases at least gave me the idea to use phrase variable names as a way to search through the PHP code, using Super Text Search, and then look for the offending bits of code.

--------------- Added [DATE]1234684026[/DATE] at [TIME]1234684026[/TIME] ---------------

To DISMOUNTED: Yeah -- there you go -- that was it. In a round-about way you did help me. I found it about 5 minutes ago, just before you wrote up your post.