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PHP

Get Variable php shirt project.

I would like to know why the get variable ("thanks" ) is not showing up on my browser... i did everything the tutorial had mentioned.. my own code worked up until i applied the isset() function to my $_GET variable... now when i click the send button .... just a clear white page shows up... no error is displayed .. and i dont see the variable i am suppose to see after the contact.php ... i dont see the following variable "thanks" at the end of the url... can u please tell me what I am doing wrong.

<?php


    if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {

   $name = $_POST["name"];
   $email = $_POST["email"];
   $message = $_POST["message"];

    $email_body = "";

     $email_body = $email_body ."Name: " . $name . "\n";
     $email_body = $email_body . "Email: " . $email . "\n";
     $email_body = $email_body . "Message: " . $message;



     header("Location: contact.php?status=thanks");
     exit;

     }  ?>

<?php 
 $pageTitle = "Contact Mike";
 $section = "contact";
 include("inc/header.php"); 
 ?>

    <div class="section page">

     <div class="wrapper">

       <h1>Contact</h1>

       <?php if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND $_GET["status"]=="thanks") {  ?>

        <p>Thanks for the email! I&rsquo;ll be in touch shortly.</p>

       <?php } else { ?>

              <p>I&rsquo;d love to hear from you! Complete the form to send me an email.</p>

              <form method="post" action="contact.php">

               <table>
                  <tr>
                      <th>
                      <label for="name">Name</label> 
                      </th>
                      <td>
                      <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
                      </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th>
                      <label for="email">Email</label> 
                      </th>
                      <td>
                      <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
                      </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th>
                      <label for="message">Message</label> 
                      </th>
                      <td>
                      <textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
                      </td>
                  </tr>
               </table>
                 <input type="submit" value="Send">

               </form>

              <?php  }  ?>

     </div>

    </div>

    <?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>

Can you post the code you have for that?

If you see a white screen of death in php, you should consider to check error reporting options in your php.ini file

error_reporting E_ALL
display_errors 1

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.error-reporting

3 Answers

Put a slash infront of contact so it's

header("Location: \contact.php?status=thanks");

Hi Le Var Range ,

It seems like your header redirect isn't working. This could happen if you have any output to the page before header.

Is your opening php block <?php the 1st line of your file?

Make sure that you don't have any blank lines or any kind of whitespace before that.

Thank you so much for you guys suggestions .. i did figure it out it was a whitespace issue.