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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Adding a Contact Form Checking the Request Method

Posted by Benjamin Wornell
Benjamin Wornell
10,458 Points

header("Location: contact-thanks.php"); does not work

header("Location: contact-thanks.php"); does not work. It gets a NULL value.

The conditional works.

Code is as follows, which is as it appears in the video.

I've found a common reason for this is that actual output is sent prior to the header(). I don't see where that would be happening here

<?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. "E-mail:".$email."\n"; $email_body=$email_body. "Message: ".$message."\n";

header("Location: contact-thanks.php");

exit;

}

2 Answers

Adam Ridgley
Adam Ridgley
12,255 Points

I've had an issue like this when I had some white space after a closing PHP tag. Your code works fine for me:

<?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. "E-mail:".$email."\n"; 
    $email_body=$email_body. "Message: ".$message."\n";

    header("Location: contact-thanks.php");
    exit;  
}
?>
Benjamin Wornell
Benjamin Wornell
10,458 Points
Benjamin Wornell
Benjamin Wornell
10,458 Points

This was close enough. The problem was a blank line at the top of the file. My opening <?php tag started on line 2. NoviceProblems.