PHP header not working with godaddy

splap · 09-01-2009, 08:25 AM

I've made a contact form on a website, and it send the user to a page that should redirect them back to the contact form after three seconds.

This is that code:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php 

function spamcheck($field)
  {
  //filter_var() sanitizes the e-mail
  //address using FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL
  $field=filter_var($field, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

  //filter_var() validates the e-mail
  //address using FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL
  if(filter_var($field, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
    {
    return TRUE;
    }
  else
    {
    return FALSE;
    }
  }
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: rgb(32,32,32);
text-align:center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
{
    $mailcheck = spamcheck($_REQUEST['email']);
    
    if ($mailcheck == FALSE) 
        {
?>
Invalid input.
<?php
        }
    else 
        {
        $name = $_REQUEST['name'];
        $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
        $phone = $_REQUEST['phone'];
        $comments = $_REQUEST['comments'];

        
        $to = "martin@logobee.com";
        $subject = "Mail from -- contact form from $name";
        if (isset($_REQUEST['add_to_mailing_list']))
        {
            $message = "Name: $name \n E-mail: $email \n Phone Number: $phone \n This user wants to be added to the mailing list \n $comments";
        }
        
        else 
        {
            $message = "Name: $name \n E-mail: $email \n Phone Number: $phone \n $comments";
        }
        mail($to,$subject,$message, "From: $email");
?>
E-mail sent successfully to <?php echo $to; ?>, redirecting in 3 seconds...
<?php
        }
    //sleep for 3 seconds
    sleep(3);
    //redirect
    header("Location: http://www.---.ca/contact.htm");
}
?>

But when I've tested it on the server, I get the following error message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/d/a/v/---r/html/contact.php:24) in /home/content/d/a/v/---/html/contact.php on line 73

The site is hosted on godaddy.com , does anyone know why this is happening?

EDIT: I've removed any information that would identify the website, because it's not mine and I can't give away my client's information

prasanthmj · 09-01-2009, 09:49 AM

This is because the headers should be sent before any other output like echo "something"
You can use ob_start() and ob_end_flush() functions.

warnesey333 · 09-01-2009, 10:23 AM

Header functions need to be done before any output occurs.
"invalid input" is output
the echo lines are output.

splap · 09-01-2009, 12:23 PM

I know what output is, but then how would I get it to show the output and then redirect after 3 seconds?

warnesey333 · 09-01-2009, 01:12 PM

Javascript redirect?

Help · 09-15-2009, 12:34 AM

I think the problem is not with the Godaddy server. In your code, there is a lot of space between the php starting tag and 'function'. plz remove the space. i think this will help

dweebsonduty · 09-22-2009, 11:06 PM

prasanthmj is right, you need to do 2 things:

1. Put it in the head
2. Make sure nothing else is echoed before that

Tip: echo "<meta http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content=\"3;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com\">" instead of using header, it works every time for me on godaddy.

Tip #2: Chrome does not support html redirects, keep that in mind too.

mafiaclassic · 10-07-2009, 02:46 PM

put up the top inside the <?php include("html.php");

**ScriptMan** · 10-08-2009, 07:15 PM

The meta refresh as posted above should work fine even on a godaddy server.