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gregoriolancellotti2
9,559 PointsHelp for contact form success message
Hello everyone i'm building my personal portfolio and sincerly i don't have any experience for the moment with php . I finished my site the only thing i'm missing is how to display a success message (even in another page) with this code.
```php
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$organisation = $_POST['organisation'];
$brand = $_POST['brand'];
$design = $_POST['design'];
$frontend = $_POST['frontend'];
$backend = $_POST['backend'];
$ecommerce = $_POST['ecommerce'];
$notsure = $_POST['notsure'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$web1 = $_POST['web1'];
$web2 = $_POST['web2'];
$web3 = $_POST['web3'];
$web4 = $_POST['web4'];
$deadline = $_POST['deadline'];
$reference = $_POST['reference'];
$budget = $_POST['budget'];
$from = "From:". $_POST['email'];
$to = 'mei@gmail.com';
$subject = 'Hello';
$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Organisation: $organisation\n Brand-identity: $brand\n Web- design: $design\n Front-end: $frontend\n Backend: $backend\n Ecommerce: $ecommerce\n Not Sure: $notsure\n Message: $message\n Links to stuff : $web1 $web2 $web3 $web4\n Deadline: $deadline\n Reference: $reference\n Budget: $budget\n";
$headers = "From:" . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
if(@mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers))
{
print "Mail sent !";
}else{
echo "Error! Please try again.";
}
}
?>
```
The problem is that my sucess message is always displayed and not only when my form is submitted. Can someone help me
3 Answers
John MacDonald
8,593 PointsHey Gregorio!
I recommend instead of posting to the wall "Mail Sent!", You could use a php header('location: yourpagehere.php?success'); The benefits of this is that you can have an awaiting styled success message when the person hits the $_GET variable. Example - php <?php if(isset($_GET['success'])){ echo "Success, Mail has been sent!"; }; ?>
Hope this helps!
John \n\n
gregoriolancellotti2
9,559 PointsJohn MacDonald sorry i sincerly don't understand since I don't have a php knowledge for the moment where I have to place your code in order to don't have my success message always displayed
John MacDonald
8,593 PointsHmmm, I recommend checking out Treehouses PHP videos, They will give you quite a good understanding with PHP and you will be done in about a month or 2.
Hope this helps!
John /n/n