Running script on form submit

[torquai]

I have written a small email sending function in php (raw data sent to a connected socket) and i know this works, but now I need to build this into a form, so that when the user clicks the submit button I need to call the function 'sendemail', this functions collects a lot of information and sends the email, therefore I will not need the submit button to load a new web page since a popup message will tell if the email was sent or not.

Does anyone know how to do this? should i use a plain button and not a submit button?

Thanks in advance

-Thomas Leggett

[webpoet]

Not sure I understand what you mean. You want something done when the user submits the form but you don´t want the page to reload ?

[torquai]

Well if possible a new page could be loaded (root index.php) but at least not until the function 'sendemail' has completed and a message has been displayed to the customer.

So this is what happens:

1. The user loads the page and the form is displayed.
2. The user fills in the values needed and presses a button.
3. A script (sendemail) is called (now it will send an email) and returned from.
4. (optionally) the index.php page is loaded as the user is done with the form.

-Thomas Leggett

[drawmack]

send them back to the same form. That way you can give them info about the status of the email and the flow is the same with or without errors in input data.