Email form base question

[MikeYb0y]

hi, im new to these forums and new to php. I made a simple email form to get use to some of the options in php but im having some issues. I would like to make the script redirect people to a url after they have submited the form. Heres the code i have which now only displays a thank you message, and thank you to those who help me

<?php
$message .= "Name: $name \r\n";
$message .= "Email: $email \r\n";
$message .= "Company: $company \r\n";
$message .= "Comments: $comments \r\n";

/ additional headers /
$headers .= "To: Branzone <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $name\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: \r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: \r\n";

/ send the email and redirect it back to index.html /
@mail("[e-mail]", "Website Contact Form", $message, $headers);

print("Thank You!");
?>

[planetsim]

header("location: mypage.php");

[man]header[/man]

Should do the trick changing mypage.php to a file you have the Thank you message. Just remove the print("Thank you"); and add that there.

[EricD77]

Hi,

You may use the <meta> tag to redirect to a page. Add the following after the last line of your script:

print "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=index.html'>";

**note: the zero (0) in the above line indicates the number of seconds of delay before jumping to index.html (or to any page). You may set it to 2, so the user will have time to read the "Thank You" message.

[MikeYb0y]

thankks guys, one more questions where can i find out, or how would i add something to check if its a valid email adress they used? or didnt leave something blank. So it cant be spammed so to say.

[Roger_Ramjet]

Look at the comments at the bottom of the page for several scripts to check email addrs
http://uk.php.net/mail

Alternatively you could use javascript to validate entries before submitting the form, there are loads of them about; and you could also use the following simple javascript to handle the redirect:

echo '<script language="javascript">window.location = "http:// - your URL here - "</script>';