email form using form works except in IE8/7

[stompkins]

Hi All,

I have a form that submits using my send.php page but talks back to the page with jquery and ajax so everything is inline.

My issue is that I edited the php page to account for some additional fields. It works fine in Firefox and Safari (doing it all inline using ajax)... but not in IE 8. If I take out the portion I edited it all works fine under IE. The form still sends the email under IE but what it does is goes to another page and prints 1,2 or 3 instead of using the ajax and giving the response inline.

Here is the php

<?php
error_reporting(E_NOTICE);

function valid_email($str)
{
    return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}

if($_POST['name']!='' && $_POST['email']!='' && valid_email($_POST['email'])==TRUE && strlen($_POST['comment'])>1)
{
    $to = "[e-mail]";
    $headers =  'From: '.$_POST['email'].''. "\r\n" .
            'Reply-To: '.$_POST['email'].'' . "\r\n" .
            'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
    $subject = htmlspecialchars($_POST['topic']);
    $message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['version']);
    $message .= "\n" . htmlspecialchars($_POST['comment']);

    if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
    {
        echo 1; //SUCCESS
    }
    else {
        echo 2; //FAILURE - server failure
    }
}
else {
    echo 3; //FAILURE - not valid email
}

?>

This is the portion I added in so that it append to the message section of the email sent

$message .= "\n" . htmlspecialchars($_POST['comment']);

any help on tweaking so it might work in IE8 would be great. The page can be seen at www.reaxtive.com

[jay6390]

Not quite sure why its doing it, but it sounds like your javascript code isnt playing ball. When it goes to the new page in IE does it display anything other than the number in the source code itself?

[djjjozsi]

first rule if you send data via AJAX calls,
remove the action tag from the form. _assets/php/send.php

And try to use: button instead.

[stompkins]

does it display anything other than the number in the source code itself?

viewing the source it only displays the number 3. It looks like so far it's actually only in IE 8 that it does this...

All the other browsers seem to work inline so far.