Help with a submission form in php

[chloew]

Hi can anyone help me with making a submission form in php.
I have done most of it but i am stuck with once someone presses the submit button to send the request, the email comes to me as it should but i would also like the submission page to move to another page that says something like "thanks for your enquiry" but i dion't know how to do this, can someone write the code that i am missing to help me out with this.
Thanks very much

[LiamSwan]

Your form page should contain this

<form method="post" action="contact.php">

form fields

</form>

create a contact.php page in the same directory with the following code

PHP Code:

<?php

$EmailTo = "something@yourwebsite.com";
$xxxxx = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['xxxxx'])); 


// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "xxxxx: ";
$Body .= $xxxxx;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email 
$success = mail($EmailTo, $xxxxx, $Body);

?>

You should already have this. xxxxx being one of the fields, you probably have many more.
Anyway, simply add the following before the last ?>

PHP Code:

// redirect to success page 
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=ok.htm\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
} 


create the ok.htm page to your liking, this is the page the user is taken to after submiting the form.
It's also smart to creat an error.htm page that redirects a user to an error page if the form failed to send for any reason.

[webprofession]

Originally Posted by LiamSwan

PHP Code:

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
} 


Right code, but
I think, there is no need of this code.

[LiamSwan]

Well that depends. He may want to have a field that 'must' be filled. In which case he would need that bit of code to validate that field entry, like 'email' or 'name' fields.

[chloew]

Thanks the code was perfect i did pick out only the pieces i needed as i had already used most of them.
Thanks again

[Tanya]

Liam u big hunk of coding man you LOl!
add a damn avatar already or else...

[chicgeek]

Moved to coding.