going to get fired !!

itsglitzy

hi all, Im new here, started a new job, and was given a php file and asked to get processing part done, ive been struggling for 3 days now hunting hi and low but now the pressure is to much and was looking for some help, as the powers that be are breathing down my neck?? big thnks to all who post and help me out on this 1

http://www.ewarc.co.uk/trailBlazer/contact.php

i have this bit done but have no idea on the processing part ??
i have managed to do this in process.php

<?php
@extract($_POST);
$name = stripslashes($name);
$address = stripslashes($address);
$postcode = stripslashes($postcode);
$tel = stripslashes($tel);
mail('me@me.co.uk',$address,$postcode,"From: $name <$tel>");
header("location:contact.php");
?>

but when its done it takes me back to the contact.php form not my thank you message

:bemused:

insomniac

I'm not getting it. you are telling the browser to go to contact.php, not to go to the" thank you page".

header("location:contact.php");

you could use:
header("location:thankyou.php");

Or when contact.php has the thank you message in it, you have to tell the page that the mail was send, you could use a variable.
header("location:contact.php?send");

in contact you look for the variable send.

itsglitzy

aaahhhh genius, i will look for this big thx

dmacman1962

If you cannot get the header to work, just do this (in HTML)...

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=thankyou.php">

That will send them there.

Let us know if you get it working...

We don't want your income disrupted. 🙂

Don

itsglitzy

had a look but no send variable, the contact.php is made up of if & elses without any defined var for me to goto.. i think the thank you option may be the way, ill give it a go but thank you vvv much its at least got me moving again

insomniac

it is working isn't it?

You have a error in your form.
You use a reset button, but isn't a reset button.

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Reset">

use:
<input name="reset" type="reset" value="reset">

This way the form gets cleared not send.

mikesch

Hi,

If you issue a header statement as you did, it is going to redirect you to the location specified. In your case it's going to take you to the contact.php page. You should only redirect to the contact.php page if there's some required info missing. Otherwise, skip the header statement and do whatever you want with the data. I assume you'll want to save it to a database...

Hope this helps.

itsglitzy

guys thx for all your help as you can see i am the new start i said i was, i still havent managed to crack it, the form is a mail all info to an email...any further help would be great

Aurasia

I'm not exactly the most experienced person on this site, but if you're just trying to mail a bit of data, why don't you go grab a free PHP formmail script and use the redirection capabilities in that?

Such as: http://www.php-form-mail.com/ or http://www.tectite.com/vbforums/forumdisplay.php?f=3&WWWTECTITE=62ffe4a6a8f67555137b855de51fb87a
The one I use is from here: http://www.boaddrink.com/projects/phpformmail/index.php so just POST your variables to that and have a redirect variable

And regarding your header function - a header is automatically executed when it's written like yours is. If you want to test to see whether something worked or not ... put it inside of an IF {} ELSE {} statement ... with a different header('Location: ...') inside of each set of {}.

itsglitzy

thanks for these links im sure ill get something from these excellent, thx

Cent

You're mangling the MAIL function.

mail('me@me.co.uk',$address,$postcode,"From: $name <$tel>");

You should review: PHP.NET

Here's a quick example of mailing the form variables to an email address:

$message = "-----------------------------------------\n";
$message .= "Name = ".$name."\n";
$message .= "Address = ".$address."\n";
$message .= "Postal Code = ".$postcode."\n";
$message .= "Tel = ".$tel."\n";
mail("me@me.co.uk","Form Post",$message, "From: ".$email."\r\n");

In your PHP script, you are inserting a person's telephone number as an email address. You are also adding more parameters than the MAIL() function can handle.

Format: mail("recipient email","your subject","the message","the from address");

Best,
Cent