Probably a dumb question from me ...

ricohKr5

Hi there.

I'm totally new around here totally a nOOb in php. I tried to find something using the search engine so I won't repost the question. Did found something similar but not exactlly what I wanted.

So here it goes ...

Let's say that you have a mail form (build in HTML). Once you click on the "Send" button, then is going to redirect you to the php page that is actually sending the mail for you.

Now what I want ...

I have found this - and know and understand how is working - on your forums:

if(!$mail){
echo "Email not sent! Please try later...";
}else{
echo "Mail sent successfully!";
}

Insted of "echo" a message, I want to be redirected to another html page for both cases (if and else). How can I do that? Hope I will get an asnwer asap cus I've tried several things and nothing worked - I'm sure is simple.

Sorry if I reposted the question.

Vbabiy

You can use javascripts

ricohKr5

I know but I will like to do it using php - and I don't know the code for redirecting someone to another page in this situation

Vbabiy

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); /* Redirect browser */
?>

but note that this has to be the first thing on the page. or you will get a error.

ricohKr5

OK but that thing is going to redirect you if you get on that page right? Something like javascript is doing when lets say you change your server and domain name and on the old one you add a redirect page to the new one.

If so then in this case is not what I want.

Like I was saying - instead of the "echo" I want to have a code that is redirecting me to another html page

So in other words first it has to send the e-mail, then is checking to see is the e-mail was sent. if yes, is going to send me to a page - home page lets say. If not - then is sending me to another page.

To make it more simple

If mail was sent,
go to http://some.page.com
else
go to http://some.otherpage.com

Is there a code that can be use for what I want?

shank

What if you want it to show the mail sent message for like 1 second and then redirect to another page?

How would you go about doing that?

Vbabiy

Correct me if i am wrong but i in order to show or check to see if the mail was send you will have to use javascript.

Vbabiy

You could use something like this:

if($mail)  //the mail was sent then do this//:
     {

?>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> 
function redirect(URLStr) { location = URLStr; }

redirect("sentmail.php");
</script>

<?php

} 
else 
{

 ?>

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> 
function redirect(URLStr) { location = URLStr; }

redirect("mailerror.php");
</script>

<?php
}
?>

ricohKr5

I see - so there is no way doing the same thing using only php?

If there is no way to do that with php then I'm kind of forced to go with java.

Thx alot for your help Vbabiy. But if by any chance you have any idea how to do that only in php I would be really greatfull.

One more thing ... don't I have to incorporate java in echo() thing?

Vbabiy

Hey ricohKr5 I cant promise you this 100% the best answer but as far as I know I think so. But there are so really smart guys on this forum I am sure if they have a better idea they will love to shed some light on your problem.

Because of course i am also still a newbie 🙂 (BE PROUD 🙂)

ricohKr5

😃 - at least we are trying 😉 - i'm going to give it a try and let you know once I'm done. thx again.

If anyone has a better ideea, please share it with. THX!

thorpe

its allot easier than you think.

if (!$mail) {
  header("Location: failed.php");
} else {
  header("Location: success.php");
}

and no, the header() function does not need to be the first thing on the page. it just cant be used after any output has been sent to the browser already. meening you cant have something like;

echo 'foo';
header("Location: boo.php");

but there are also workarounds to this problem that i wont go into here.

Vbabiy

i got a question so this will work:

<html>
<?php
/* This will give an error. Note the output
 * above, which is before the header() call */
header('Location: http://www.example.com/');
?>

thorpe

no it will not work. no output can be sent to the browser before calling the header() function. this includes html and whitespace, aswell as any output from php... echo() etc.

ricohKr5

OK I tried Vbabiy idea and is working - it does send the e-Mail. However ... for some wierd reason is sending me to the error page instead of the mail sent page. Here is the code I used - identicall with Vbabiy.

if($mail)
     {
     ?>
    <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
    function redirect(URLStr) { location = URLStr; }
    redirect("mailsent.html");
    </script>
    <?php
} 
else 
{
     ?>
    <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
    function redirect(URLStr) { location = URLStr; }
    redirect("error.html");
    </script>
    <?php
}

I have also tried thorpe idea and for some weird reason I get this error (but it does send the message):

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/forms/tests/Test.php:6) in /var/www/html/forms/tests/Test.php on line 85

And here is the code I used - basically identical:

if (!$mail) {
  header("Location: error.html");
} else {
  header("Location: mailsent.html");
}

EDIT

And my 85 line is this one:

header("Location: error.html");

thorpe

post the code that actually sends the mail.

as for your error with the redirect, as i said in my post. you cant call the header function after any output has been sent.

ricohKr5

You know what? Here is the whole code for the .php document that is sending the form:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #000000;
}
body {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
a:link {
	color: #000000;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #000000;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #0099CC;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: underline;
	color: #000000;
}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<div align="center">
Please wait. Your e-Mail is beeing sent.
<br />
If the your are not beeing redirected back to catalog test page, then please <a href="bikiniSite_test.html">CLICK HERE</a>.
</div>
<?php

$name = $_POST['name'];
$storeName = $_POST['storeName'];
$billingAddress = $_POST['billingAddress'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$stateProvince = $_POST['stateProvince'];
$country = $_POST['country'];
$postalCode = $_POST['postalCode'];
$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];
$fax = $_POST['fax'];
$eMail = $_POST['eMail'];
$webSite = $_POST['webSite'];
$shippingAddress = $_POST['shippingAddress'];

$catalogForm ="-----------------------------------------<br /><br />";
$catalogForm .= $name . " is requesting a catalog and she/he, sent the following informations: <br /><br />";
$catalogForm .="-----------------------------------------<br /><br />";
$catalogForm .= "<strong> - Name:</strong> " . $name . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Store/Bussiness name: </strong>" . $storeName . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Billing address: </strong>" . $billingAddress . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - City: </strong>" . $city . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - State/Province: </strong>" . $stateProvince . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Country: </strong>" . $country . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - ZIP/Postal Code: </strong>" . $postalCode . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Telephone #: </strong>" . $telephone . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Fax #: </strong>" . $fax . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - e-Mail: </strong>" . $eMail . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Web Site: </strong>" . $webSite . "<br />";
$catalogForm .="<strong> - Shipping Address: </strong>" . $shippingAddress . "<br /><br />";
$catalogForm .="-----------------------------------------<br />";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Tranfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$headers .= "From: " . $eMail . "\r\n";

mail("creativeli@creativelines.ca", "$name is requesting a catalog!", "$catalogForm", "$headers");

if (!$mail) {
  header("Location: error.html");
} else {
  header("Location: mailsent.html");
}  





?>

</body>
</html>

thorpe

all you need do is remove all the html from outside of the php tags. you wont see any of that anyway with the redirect.

ricohKr5

Yep, I got rid of that error after I removed all my php code - but, like in vBabiy case - is sending me to the error page instead of the sent mail page..

thorpe

sorry... didnt even notice that. just assign a variable to recieve the returned bool from from the mail function. add this

$mail=

to the start of this line

mail("creativeli@creativelines.ca", "$name is requesting a catalog!", "$catalogForm", "$headers");