error in redirect for mailer

rickaclark

I have an index form that submits an email to a page called thanks.php3. After thanks.php3 inserts the email into a text file, I would like to redirect the thanks page to another page in a different directory.

Unfortunately when I try using the $redirect command I receive the following error message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hearnofg/public_html/temp/news/thanks.php3:2) in /home/hearnofg/public_html/temp/news/thanks.php3 on line 22

The script I am using is as follows:

<html><head><title>Thanks!</title></head><body>
<?

$Body =  file_get_contents("data/autoresponder.txt");        

mail("$Email","Welcome to Heartland's Mailing list!",
          "$Body","From: Rick\nReply-To: rick@rickclark.com");

$myfile = file("data/newsletter.txt");
$fh = fopen("data/newsletter.txt","w");
for ($index=0; $index < count($myfile); $index++)
  {
  if ($Email != chop($myfile[$index]))
    {fputs($fh,$myfile[$index]);}
  }
fputs($fh,$Email."\n");
fclose($fh);



[B]$redirect = true;
if ($redirect) {
   header ("Location: ../forms/thanks.php");
   exit;
}[/B]
?>
</body>
</html>

How can I redirect this page to ../forms/thanks.php ?

shamly

Change your code like this .....

$Body = file_get_contents("data/autoresponder.txt");

mail("$Email","Welcome to Heartland's Mailing list!",
"$Body","From: Rick\nReply-To: rick@rickclark.com");

$myfile = file("data/newsletter.txt");
$fh = fopen("data/newsletter.txt","w");
for ($index=0; $index < count($myfile); $index++)
{
if ($Email != chop($myfile[$index]))
{fputs($fh,$myfile[$index]);}
}
fputs($fh,$Email."\n");
fclose($fh);

$redirect = true;
if ($redirect) {
header ("Location: ../forms/thanks.php");
exit;
}
?>

<html><head><title>Thanks!</title></head><body>

Nothing should be echoed before a location redirect .... thats why u it was not redirecting

shamly

Ooops i missed one .... u wanted to display a thankyou message before redirecting ...... try using javascript to redirect the page after displaying the thank you message to the user instead of php redirect. The php redirect will not work if there is anything outputted before the header('location:..') command.

rickaclark

Actually, I wanted to redirect to a different thank you message. Your script changes worked perfectly.

Thanks
Rick