Help with &quot;echo&quot;....

Help with "echo"....

kpowning

Can someone please help me on this. I have posted this for the second time now and since I'm still a pretty new beginner, I can't seem to figure out what part of my scripting is incorrect. I need to have the echo statement show on a blank page, rather than on the same page with the form, after the submit button is pressed. Right now, if I enter in any email address, it shows my echo "blah,balh" on the same page. If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction, other than the manual. It meens nothing to me at this point.

Thanks in advance...
Kyle

Here is my script:

<?php require_once('../Connections/EMALL.php'); ?>
<?php 
if ($REQUEST_METHOD=='POST') {
echo "Email Address: $EmailAddress has been Successfully removed from our database.";}
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") 
{
  $theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : $theValue;

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;    

    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}

if ((isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['EmailAddress'])) && ($HTTP_POST_VARS['EmailAddress'] != "")) {
  $deleteSQL = sprintf("DELETE FROM Emailcollector WHERE `Email Address`=%s",
                       GetSQLValueString($HTTP_POST_VARS['EmailAddress'], "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_EMALL, $EMALL);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($deleteSQL, $EMALL) or die(mysql_error());
}
?>
<?php 
mail($EmailAddress, "AmericanEmall Confirmation", "You have successfully been unsubscribed from our Email database. We are sorry to see you go!!
Please come back and visit us soon.
Sincerely,
NevadaMatters & Associates",
"From: [email]Newsletter@americanemall.com[/email]\r\n".
"Reply-To: [email]Sales@americanemall.com[/email]\r\n".
"Return-Path: [email]sales@americanemall.com[/email]\r\n");
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<p align="center">[url]www.AmericanEmall.com[/url] </p>
<p align="center">(Email Database)</p>
<form action="" method="post" name="Unsubscribe" id="Unsubscribe">
  <p align="center">To unsubscribe from our Email Database, please type in your 
    email address and then click the &quot;Submit&quot; button. You will be completely 
    deleted from our database. </p>
<? Echo "<p align=\"center\">EmailAddress: <input name=\"EmailAddress\"
type=\"text\" value=\"$EmailAddress\">"?>

  </p>
  <p align="center"> 
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
  </p>
</form>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

Daveyz83

Trying my best to help, I believe it would be better if you include your form action?

<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>" . ........

well hope it helps..

kpowning

Thanks for the pointer, I don't know why it didn't show up on the forum I posted. It is already included, just the echo shows up on the same page, instead of on a blank page. Any other ideas???

Thanks for trying though....🙁

Weedpacket

You'll want to be able to tell the difference between "getting to this page when the form is submitted" and "just displaying this page". In the first, you want to send the email and echo the notice that it was sent; in the second, you want to show the form.

I usually look first to see if isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['Submit']) - in
other words, we got here from a form submit.
{
    I then go through the other fields to see if they're valid. If
    any of them aren't,
    {
        I set $error_message to some suitable piece of text.
    }
    After that, I look to see if $error_message has text in it.
    If it doesn't,
    {    then everything has been fine.
        I build and send the email, display the notice, and
        exit().
    }
}
After that I just show the form. If $error_message has a value, I can
display it somewhere appropriate on the form, so that the person who had
tried to submit will know what the problem was.

kpowning

Thanks for the info man. But all that went straight over my head. I know you may not have the time, but is there anyway you can modify my script and explain what has been changed, in order for it to work right. I'm so new to all of this, I still don't understand what certain things mean and so forth. I would really, really appreciate it.....................

Kyle😕

kpowning

Basically in general, I'm trying to build a form for a subcribed person can unsubscribe their email address from a database. When they type in their email address and click submit, I want an email sent to them and then a new page loads saying, "Please allow 24-48hrs for your request to be processed."

Thanks,
Kyle