Redirect to a new page after php form submit

[triz231]

I have a simple php form. After the user fills out the form I am trying to get a redirection to a "thank you" page. The code I have is this:

if($send)
{
header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" );}
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail, please notify Nick"; }
}

The sending of the form information to the recipient and a thank you email to the form user all work, however, the browser stays on the blank contact.php page. What am I missing to make the browder redirect to the thankyou.html page?

[sneakyimp]

headers must be sent before you output any text at all -- even a single space char -- to the user's browser. check your script and make sure your script doesn't output any text before that header() call.

Another thing you might want to do is call exit immediately after you redirect -- otherwise the rest of your script may still echo text, etc.

Another option if you can't get that working is to echo "thank you" in this script and then user a meta refresh or javascript to forward the browser to the next page.