How do I redirect to an shtml file?

awarren71

Hi all,

I am pretty new to PHP...I know how to set up a simple form, process it using PHP and have it sent to either a db or an inbox, but that's about the extent of it.

Now I am working on an shtml site, and the concept of including files in this kind of site is pretty much the same as the concept of including files in a php site. However, my member bio page is an shtml file, and it is passing form variables to a php script to be processed and sent to an inbox.

Once this is successfully done (which it does, no problem), how do I then tell the browser to redirect to an shtml thankyou page?Using an include in my php script file includes the shtml thankyou page, but the menus are all missing, and the url is showing that I'm still on the php script page, so I'm not correctly redirecting to the shtml thankyou page...even though it's partly displaying.

I think I just made this sound a lot more complicated than it really is :rolleyes: Anyway, how do I do this...redirect to an shtml file from within a php script??

Thanks,

Amanda

Natty_Dreadlock

redirect like this:
header("Location: thankyou.shtml");
hth

awarren71

Hi Natty,

I must be really dense at this PHP stuff because you are the 2nd person to tell me to use that line of code, and I still can't get it off the php script page! Now it just displays a blank screen, but the url is still pointing to the php file.

Here's the ending of my php script with your line of code inserted:

// Send the message

$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($ok) {header("Location: thankyoubio.shtml");
} else {
echo "<p>Mail could not be sent. Sorry!</p>";
}
?>

Am I putting this in the wrong location??

Thanks,

Amanda

Natty_Dreadlock

do u have any echo or setcookie before the header command or even whitespaces before the <?php??? the header command must be called before some output is sent to the browser.
hth

BuzzLY

If I am not mistaken, it's possible that PHP doesn't always handle relative URLs well when redirecting. I recommend using the full URL:

header("Location: http://www.yourserver.com/dir/thankyoubio.shtml");

awarren71

Thank you both! I will try your suggestions and let you know how it works out 🆒

Amanda