redirecting woes ... ?'s

bisket

i have a form that people are filling out and this form goes to confirm.php which emails the contents to me. and i'm trying to redirect to a different page on a successful completion.

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<?php
if ((!$contact ) or (!$telephone) && (!$email))  {

echo "Please Enter a Contact Name and either a Telephone Number or an 
	  Email address for Contact purpose's.
	  Thank You";
echo "<p>";
echo "Please use the 'Back' button to continue.";
echo "</p>";
echo "<a href='quoteform.html' onclick='self.history.back();'>Back</a>";
exit;
} 

$message="Quotation Needed by: $quotedate\n\n"."Company: $company\n\n"."Contact: $contact\n\n"."Address:\n$address_line_1\n\n"."City: $city\n\n"."State: $state\n\n"."Post Code: $zip\n\n"."Telephone: $telephone\n\n"."Fax: $fax\n\n"."Email: $email\n\n";

mail("$repnames","$subject","$message","From:Form.$email\r\nReply-to:$email");
?>
<?php
header("Location: [url]http://www.mywebsite.com/done.html[/url]");
?>
</body>
</html>

with that current code it tells me i have an error, that there's already a header and blah blah. if i take out the bottom php header info the script works fine, email me and all. on a non-successful completion this script comes into play and says blah and blah is required, but then when it's good i want it to go to done.html

timmytock

lol,i got the same problem, just put a post up :rolleyes:

jstarkey

bisket, you can't send headers to the browser once the page starts to load.

tricky

Yep, you can't send headers any more when you have already put out content to the browser (even spaces and newlines count). Put the parts of html that are now at the top of the bottom of the page within the if-statement and only output the header if the form was completed succesfully (other content will be ignored any way).

bisket

ok, thanks for all the info, so what code do i need to use to get what i want done accomplished, just to change pages after the php and done and mail is sent, so it will go to done.html?

thanks.

yelvington

Your page is completely upside down.
Do it like this:

<?
// php code here
// if SUBMIT then do stuff
// and redirect
?>
<form action="POST>
<!-- form stuff here --?
</form>

The_Chancer

Technically you can place the header(location) after the page has started to load - as long as no HTML has been outputted to the browser. That includes spaces in include files etc.

So you can have

<?php
$this _is_a_load_of_working_and_calculations=1;
$etc=2;
$etc=3;
header(location: "http://etcetcetc");
?>

Another slight error is the use of the href in the header(location) - it can only be an absolute URL

bisket

??t it to work.

here's the code for reference to those trying to do this:

contact.php:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form action="mail.php" method="POST">
in put fields, variables, design, whatever
</form>
</body>
</html>

mail.php:

<?php
$message="Name: $name\n\n"."E-Mail: $email\n\n"."Message: $message";
mail("$contact","$subject","$message","From: $email\r\nReply-to:$email");
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.net/dir/contact_sent.html");
?>

after mail.php sends the mail, it will redirect to the contact_sent.html page. in the mail.php there is no other code except the php, no html or anything. this is very basic, so if you want required fields or email validation ... well don't ask me, i'm just learning php 🙂

The_Chancer

That'll work fine - and you can have the data checking in there too..

If everything is OK - then change location, else produce a page saying what the errors were...

That is the next step...

bisket

i have a book i'm going through - Beginning PHP4 - by wrox publishing i think.

the next chapter i believe is on if - else statements and whatnot, so yea, that'll be the next step, thanks for the help.