[RESOLVED] Opening New page

Patty

1) I have a form that once submitted, writes the contents to a text file. This works great, but how do I send a user to a "success" page after the text file is written without have to click anything? Below is my 'On submit" code.

Thanks in advance.

<!--On submit, write to file-->
<?php

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$weekDate = $_POST['weekDate'];
$title1 = $_POST['title-1'];
$rating1 = $_POST['rating-1'];
//$title1 = "\$title-1=\"" . $title1 . '";';
$actors1 = $_POST['actors-1'];
$image1 = $_POST['image-1'];
$imageLink1 = $_POST['imageLink-1'];
$description1 = $_POST['description-1'];
//remove \n
$description1 = str_replace("\n", "", $description1);
$fri1 = $_POST['fri-1'];
$sat1 = $_POST['sat-1'];
$sun1 = $_POST['sun-1'];
$mon1 = $_POST['mon-1'];
$tues1 = $_POST['tues-1'];
$wed1 = $_POST['wed-1'];
$thur1 = $_POST['thur-1'];

$fp = fopen("../db/data.txt","w");

if(!$fp) {
    echo 'Error, the file could not be opened or there was an error creating it.';
    exit;
}

fwrite($fp, $weekDate."\n" . $title1."\n" . $rating1."\n"  . $actors1 . "\n" . $image1. "\n" . $imageLink1. "\n" . $description1. "\n" . $fri1. "\n" .  $sat1. "\n" . $sun1. "\n" . $mon1. "\n" .  $tues1. "\n" . $wed1. "\n" . $thur1. "\n");

fclose($fp);
echo 'Your data was saved successfully!';
//instead of using echo here, I would like a new success page to open
}
?>

sheephat

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>

suntra

And don't forget : NOTHING MUST BE OUTPUTTED before using header() ! Remove all the stuff before the "<?php", otherwise you'll get an error !

Patty

I see about the error message.

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/baxet/public_html/update/update.php:5) in /home/baxet/public_html/update/update.php on line 391

But I don't understand how to do this then. I have to have the data ouputted to the text file before I can have to code open the new page. I don't understand how to write this. Can someone show me correctly where to put this? Thanks in advance.

This is what I have

<!--On submit, write to file-->
<?php

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$weekDate = $_POST['weekDate'];
$title1 = $_POST['title-1'];
$rating1 = $_POST['rating-1'];
//$title1 = "\$title-1=\"" . $title1 . '";';
$actors1 = $_POST['actors-1'];
$image1 = $_POST['image-1'];
$imageLink1 = $_POST['imageLink-1'];
$description1 = $_POST['description-1'];
//remove \n
$description1 = str_replace("\n", "", $description1);
$fri1 = $_POST['fri-1'];
$sat1 = $_POST['sat-1'];
$sun1 = $_POST['sun-1'];
$mon1 = $_POST['mon-1'];
$tues1 = $_POST['tues-1'];
$wed1 = $_POST['wed-1'];
$thur1 = $_POST['thur-1'];

$fp = fopen("../db/data.txt","w");

if(!$fp) {
    echo 'Error, the file could not be opened or there was an error creating it.';
    exit;
}

fwrite($fp, $weekDate."\n" . $title1."\n" . $rating1."\n"  . $actors1 . "\n" . $image1. "\n" . $imageLink1. "\n" . $description1. "\n" . $fri1. "\n" .  $sat1. "\n" . $sun1. "\n" . $mon1. "\n" .  $tues1. "\n" . $wed1. "\n" . $thur1);

fclose($fp);

header( 'Location: http://www.my domainname here.com/success.html' ) ; 
//blocked out domain name purposly


}
?>

suntra

suntra wrote:
Remove all the stuff before the "<?php", otherwise you'll get an error !

What's this ?

<!--On submit, write to file-->
<?php

Isn't it "stuff" before the "<?php" ?!

-> Yes. Remove it ! "<?php" has to be the VERY FIRST thing in your script !

Patty

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean. Please remember I'm a newbie to php. All I want my little script to do is take form data, write it to a text file, (it does this successfully now), then send the user to a different page or even rewrite the entire page with a little message telling them that the update was successful. It seems like it should be such a common thing to do. Can this be done with one click of the submit button? Thanks in advance.

This is my entire code (minus domains)...

<html>
<head></head>
<body>

<?php
 // read  file into array 
$array = file('../db/data.txt');
?> 

<center><b>UPDATE CURRENT SHOW INFORMATION!</b> </center>

<hr>
<p>


<form name="input" method="post" 
action="<?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']?>">

</p><label for="date"><b>Movies and Times Showing for the Week Of:</b> </label>
<input type="text" size="60" name="weekDate" id="weekDate" value="<?php echo $array[0];?> ">
<br><br>
<hr>
<table>
<tr><td bgcolor="#99CCFF">
<center><h2>MOVIE 1</h2></center><br>

<p><label for="title-1"><b>Title:</b> </label>
<input type="text" size="60" name="title-1" id="title-1"  value="<?php echo $array[1];?>"/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

<label for="rating-1"><b>Rating:</b> </label>
<input type="text" size="15" name="rating-1" id="rating-1" value="<?php echo $array[2];?>"/></p>

<p><label for="actors-1"><b>Main Actors:</b> </label>
<input type="text" size="70" name="actors-1" id="actors-1"  value="<?php echo $array[3];?>"/></p>

<p><label for="image-1":><b>Name of Image:</b> </label>
<input type="text" size="70" name="image-1" id="image-1"  value="<?php echo $array[4];?>"/></p>

<p><label for="imageLink-1"><b>Link to Image Trailer:</b> </label>
<input type="text" size="150" name="imageLink-1" id="imageLink-1"  value="<?php echo $array[5];?>"/></p>

<p><b>Movie 1 Description:</b><br>
<textarea rows="10" cols="80" name="description-1"><?php echo $array[6];?></textarea></p>



<table>
<tr><td colspan="7" align="center"><b>Showtimes</b></td></tr>
<tr >
<td align="center">Friday</td>
<td align="center">Saturday</td>
<td align="center">Sunday</td>
<td align="center">Monday</td>
<td align="center">Tuesday</td>
<td align="center">Wednesday</td>
<td align="center" >Thursday</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td ><input type="text" size="20" name="fri-1" id="fri-1" value="<?php echo $array[7];?>"/></td>
<td><input type="text" size="20" name="sat-1" id="sat-1" value="<?php echo $array[8];?>"/></td>
<td><input type="text" size="20" name="sun-1" id="sun-1" value="<?php echo $array[9];?>"/></td>
<td><input type="text" size="20" name="mon-1" id="mon-1" value="<?php echo $array[10];?>"/></td>
<td><input type="text" size="20" name="tues-1" id="tues-1" value="<?php echo $array[11];?>"/></td>
<td><input type="text" size="20" name="wed-1" id="wed-1" value="<?php echo $array[12];?>"/></td>
<td><input type="text" size="20" name="thur-1" id="thur-1" value="<?php echo $array[13];?>"/></td>
</tr>
</table>

</p>
<br>

</td></tr>


</table>

</p>
<br>

</td></tr>


<tr><td>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save Changes" /></p>
</form>
</td></tr>
</table>


<!--On submit, write to file-->
<?php

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$weekDate = $_POST['weekDate'];
$title1 = $_POST['title-1'];
$rating1 = $_POST['rating-1'];
//$title1 = "\$title-1=\"" . $title1 . '";';
$actors1 = $_POST['actors-1'];
$image1 = $_POST['image-1'];
$imageLink1 = $_POST['imageLink-1'];
$description1 = $_POST['description-1'];
//remove \n
$description1 = str_replace("\n", "", $description1);
$fri1 = $_POST['fri-1'];
$sat1 = $_POST['sat-1'];
$sun1 = $_POST['sun-1'];
$mon1 = $_POST['mon-1'];
$tues1 = $_POST['tues-1'];
$wed1 = $_POST['wed-1'];
$thur1 = $_POST['thur-1'];

$fp = fopen("../db/data.txt","w");

if(!$fp) {
    echo 'Error, the file could not be opened or there was an error creating it.';
    exit;
}

fwrite($fp, $weekDate."\n" . $title1."\n" . $rating1."\n"  . $actors1 . "\n" . $image1. "\n" . $imageLink1. "\n" . $description1. "\n" . $fri1. "\n" .  $sat1. "\n" . $sun1. "\n" . $mon1. "\n" .  $tues1. "\n" . $wed1. "\n" . $thur1);

fclose($fp);

header( 'Location: http://www.mydomain/success.html' ) ; //generates error msg
//I want to send the user to a different page here but how???

}
?>

</html>

NogDog

If you are going to use the header() function, absolutely nothing, including text outside of the <?php . . . ?> tags, must be output prior to calling header(). (Note that spaces or newlines before the opening <?php tag count as output characters.) So, do all of your input processing first, and if it is successful, then do the header() call to the "success" page. Only after that point can you start outputting things.

If you cannot figure out how to rearrange your script to accomplish this, then start it out by turning output buffering on:

<?php    // this must be the first line of the file, no text, spaces, or newlines before it
ob_start();  // start output buffering
// ... now continue with the rest of your script as normal
//

bradgrafelman

As NogDog points out, if you can't figure out how to re-arrange your script, using ob_start() will hold all of the output in a buffer on the server.

Note that your script, however, can easily be re-arranged to do the form processing first (and thus use header() if need be).