Submittring a Form and then Redirecting, Is this Possible?

KariAnn0

Question, Is it possible to submit a form on the current page the form is on and then after the submit is done redirect to aother page? Basically I want to click "Update" have the form submit and update the database and then redirect the user to a different page. Let me know if I should paste the code, its big though. 🙂

Thanks in Advance.

nunomira

hi,

in your html code, inside the form tag, there is the action parameter, where you put the url of the page that's opened when the user clicks the submit button.

This page can both be the page that you want to show, and the page where you have the code that updates the database.
Or this page simply updates the database and then redirects the user to that page using header

header ("Location: some_page.php");

KariAnn0

Hi, I am using the action property in the form tag to direct to the page that updates the database, but when I use the header function to redirect the page, it gives me an error. Anyway to get around that?

Thanks

gsf600y

after the update is done, put this code:

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=update_done.php\">";

KariAnn0

Thanks for idea, which would be better, doing that way with the

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=update_done.php\">";

or using a javascript to redirect the page, which is what I ended up doing anyway to solve the problem. Just curious at this point.

Kari

gsf600y

Originally posted by KariAnn0
Thanks for idea, which would be better, doing that way with the

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=update_done.php\">";

or using a javascript to redirect the page, which is what I ended up doing anyway to solve the problem. Just curious at this point.

Kari

May as well use the HTML.

ppowell

Use both:

<meta http-equiv=Refresh content="0;URL=blah.com">
<script>

</script>

Phil