redirect after form submit - help please!
Hey all...
I'm pretty decent at figuring out stuff, but this made me slightly annoyed earlier
this evening.
As the post headline states, I want to redirect to a custom page after a visitor
submits an email form. The way it initially, and still, works is to open a browser
window with only, "Thank you for your message." displayed. (Pretty lame and
embarrassing.)
Here are the details:
1. Simple html form on an html page with contact.php on server.
2. Googled all over for relevant info. Found lots of it, tried quite a few things to
no avail. Some of it was over me hurting head.
3. Grabbed a php redirect script. Here's a laff... wasn't sure WHERE it went. I
perhaps stupidly assumed it went on the contact.php page.
4. Kept getting syntax/format errors for this line:
header('Location: http://website.com');
5. Tried using a js code in the html page header area and
changing the form code from 'submit' to jump. Like this...
<input type="submit" onClick="jump()">
Header area code:
<script language="javascript">
function jump()
{
window.location = 'http://www.website.com';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Well... that didn't work.
So ok, I've read about putting the php header redirect before
any outputs, echo commands, etc.
I'm aware about avoiding blank lines and <? being on the first line
of the page.
Here's the original contact.php code:
<?
$subject="from ".$_GET['your_name'];
$headers= "From: ".$_GET['your_email']."\n";
$headers.='Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
mail("blahblah@gmail.com", $subject, "
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
".$_GET['message']."
</body>
</html>" , $headers);
echo ("Your message was successfully sent! ");
?>
<script>
resizeTo(800, 600)
//window.close()
</script>
Here's the php script I was trying to make work:
<?php
/* Redirect browser */
header("Location: http://blahblah.com");
/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>
Oh...
I also tried a meta refresh with 0 seconds in the stupid blank page
that tells people their message was sent.
Pretty sure I had that in the right place, but no worky. It laffed at
me and pointed it's finger whilst laffing.
I pains me to admit I'm redirect challenged.
Can anyone help?
I'm going to bed, now.
Thank you, and good night.
I'm pretty decent at figuring out stuff, but this made me slightly annoyed earlier
this evening.
As the post headline states, I want to redirect to a custom page after a visitor
submits an email form. The way it initially, and still, works is to open a browser
window with only, "Thank you for your message." displayed. (Pretty lame and
embarrassing.)
Here are the details:
1. Simple html form on an html page with contact.php on server.
2. Googled all over for relevant info. Found lots of it, tried quite a few things to
no avail. Some of it was over me hurting head.
3. Grabbed a php redirect script. Here's a laff... wasn't sure WHERE it went. I
perhaps stupidly assumed it went on the contact.php page.
4. Kept getting syntax/format errors for this line:
header('Location: http://website.com');
5. Tried using a js code in the html page header area and
changing the form code from 'submit' to jump. Like this...
<input type="submit" onClick="jump()">
Header area code:
<script language="javascript">
function jump()
{
window.location = 'http://www.website.com';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Well... that didn't work.
So ok, I've read about putting the php header redirect before
any outputs, echo commands, etc.
I'm aware about avoiding blank lines and <? being on the first line
of the page.
Here's the original contact.php code:
<?
$subject="from ".$_GET['your_name'];
$headers= "From: ".$_GET['your_email']."\n";
$headers.='Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
mail("blahblah@gmail.com", $subject, "
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
".$_GET['message']."
</body>
</html>" , $headers);
echo ("Your message was successfully sent! ");
?>
<script>
resizeTo(800, 600)
//window.close()
</script>
Here's the php script I was trying to make work:
<?php
/* Redirect browser */
header("Location: http://blahblah.com");
/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>
Oh...
I also tried a meta refresh with 0 seconds in the stupid blank page
that tells people their message was sent.
Pretty sure I had that in the right place, but no worky. It laffed at
me and pointed it's finger whilst laffing.
I pains me to admit I'm redirect challenged.
Can anyone help?
I'm going to bed, now.
Thank you, and good night.
-- Lisa G
-- Lisa G
-- Lisa G
-- Lisa G