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tomeemot

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php mail form - need to redirect to new page

May 27th, 2005

I found a php mail form online that echos a text success message, but need to redirect it to a new page instead.

I love all the functions in the code except for the text echo.

I tried <input type="hidden" name="next-url" value="test.com">

and <? header(Location: file.php); ?>

but the form redirect is ignored

and the header location gives me an error of not being able to do it because header already exists

Any ideas?

Here is the code.

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP mail Form</title>

<?php
// START NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS

// your name
$recipientname = "YOUR NAME";

// your email
$recipientemail = "YOU@YOURDOMAIN.COM";

// subject of the email sent to you
$subject = "Online-Form Response for $recipientname";

// send an autoresponse to the user?
$autoresponse = "yes";

// subject of autoresponse
$autosubject = "Thank you for your mail!";

// autoresponse message
$automessage = "This is an auto response to let you know that we've successfully received your email sent through our email form. Thanks! We'll get back to you shortly.";

// thankyou displayed after the user clicks "submit"
$thanks = "Thank you for contacting us.<br>We will get back to you as soon as possible.<br>";

// END NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS

?>

</head>
<body>

<?php
if($_POST['submitform']) {

$Name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Name'];
$Email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Email'];
$Comments = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Comments'];

// check required fields
$dcheck = explode(",",$require);
while(list($check) = each($dcheck)) {
if(!$$dcheck[$check]) {
$error .= "Missing $dcheck[$check]<br>";
}
}

// check email address
if ((!ereg(".+\@.+\..+", $Email)) || (!ereg("^[a-zA-Z0-9_@.-]+$", $Email))){
$error .= "Invalid email address<br>";}

// display errors
if($error) {
?>
<b>Error</b><br>
<?php echo $error; ?><br>
<a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1)">try again</a>
<?php
}
else
{

$browser = $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
$ip = $REMOTE_ADDR;

// format message
$message = "Online-Form Response for $recipientname:

Name: $Name
Email: $Email

Comments: $Comments

-----------------------------

Browser: $browser
User IP: $ip";

// send mail and print success message
mail($recipientemail,"$subject","$message","From: $Name <$Email>");

if($autoresponse == "yes") {
$autosubject = stripslashes($autosubject);
$automessage = stripslashes($automessage);
mail($Email,"$autosubject","$automessage","From: $recipientname <$recipientemail>");
}

echo "$thanks";
}
}
else {
?>
<form name="contactform" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="require" value="Name,Email,Comments">
<br>
Name <br>
<input name="Name" size="25">
<br>
<br>
E-mail<br>
<input name="Email" size="25">
<br>
<br>
Comments<br>
<textarea name="Comments" rows="5" cols="35"></textarea>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submitform">
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset">
</p>
<br>
</form>

<?php } ?>
</body>
</html>

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Join Date: May 2005

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PatrickE

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Re: php mail form - need to redirect to new page

May 29th, 2005

I believe that instead of echoing the thank you message, you can have it do a redirect instead.

Change this:
[php]echo "$thanks";[/php]

To this:
[php]header("Location: page_to_redirect_to.php");[/php]

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zippee

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Re: php mail form - need to redirect to new page

May 31st, 2005

You may get error message by sending header after the <head> tag. You may want to replace the redirection header with javascript below:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script>

zippee

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