Confirmation Page Display from a Form - Need Help

[Gladsbane]

I have been working on a application form and I have it completed for the most part.

I have two files.
1. index.php - This file contains my application form that guests can view and fill.
2. apply.php - This is a file include for my application form that takes all the form data in a email which will have a confirmation page.

My problem is the confirmation page. It parses the data in a completely blank page instead of the body of my website. When a guest submits and application to our website, I want the guest to be able to view that their application has been sent and recieved within the body of my web sites' theme and not in a completely new page. I have a code that I have to use to display data and info in my body of my website. I am just confused and not sure what to do since im relatively new to PHP. Do I need to do hidden includes and create a whole new php file? I am lost on what to do and I havent seen anything out that will help me.

Here is my apply.php contents

<?php 
//Global Parimeters
$firstn= $_POST['firstn'];
$age= $_POST['age'];
$mail= $_POST['mail'];
$life= $_POST['life'];
$cname= $_POST['cname'];
$cclass= $_POST['cclass'];
$cspec= $_POST['cspec'];
$armory= $_POST['armory'];
$wws= $_POST['wws'];
$alts= $_POST['alts'];
$history= $_POST['history'];
$exp= $_POST['exp'];
$role= $_POST['role'];
$joinus= $_POST['joinus'];

// Contact subject 
$subject ="$cname, $cspec $cclass";

// Details 
$message =" Application from \n 
Name: $firstn \n
Age: $age \n
Email: $mail \n
About: $life \n
Character Name: $cname \n
Character Class: $cclass \n
Character Spec: $cspec \n
Armory Link: $armory \n
WWS Log: $wws \n
Alts: $alts \n
Guild History: $history \n
Experience: $exp \n
Class Role & Knowledge: $role \n
Why choose this application: $joinus \n
";
// Mail of sender 
$mail_from = $_POST['mail']; 
// From 
$header = "from: $name <$mail_from>"; 
// Enter your email address 
$to ='[e-mail]'; 
$send_contact = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); 

// Check, if message sent to your email 
// Confirmation

if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

This is the code I have to use to display data and information on my website incordination with PHPNuke.

<?php
if (!eregi("modules.php", $PHP_SELF)) {
   die ("You can't access this file directly...");

}
require_once("mainfile.php");
$module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
get_lang($module_name);
include("header.php");
$index = 0;
OpenTable();
echo";
CloseTable();
include("footer.php");
?>

[Gladsbane]

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[Krik]

Put the contents of apply.php in the index.php. Either by copy and paste or use an include(). Then place that last "if" were you want to see it.

That's the simple answer. When I do forms I usually have the processing part included with the form and "if" the form was submitted I process it "else" show the form. And "if" the submitted form is ok I then let the user know "else" return a custom error.

Basically the code for the form and the processing of the form are the same page, at least as far as the user and browser are concerned.