.htaccess thanks rewrite

Could you paste any logs that you might be able to get? I'll check your syntax in a sec.

Hi Randy,

My form is half way down my home page hence the lack of contact folder and the additional of #error (used on submit to reload at the form error).

From your advice above I have been able to get the rewrite to work and show localhost/thanks/#error but still need to find a way to hide #error.

At the moment my .htaccess code is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^thanks/$ /?status=thanks

Do you or anyone else know how to do this?

Here is an additional section of code from my home page, which references #error:

<div id="contact_header">
    <h2>Get in touch</h2>
    <?php
        if (!isset($error_message)) {
            echo '<p>Just fill out the form below.</p>';
        } else {    
            echo '<p id="error">' . $error_message . '</p>';
            }
        ?>
</div>

<form id="form" method="post" action="<?php echo BASE_URL; ?>./#error">

Thanks

You can't exactly hide #error. Rewrite rules run on the server, and the #hash never even gets sent to the server. The browser uses the #hash to navigate down the page.

Instead, you could redirect to the page without the hash. With JavaScript, you could look on the page to see if a paragraph with an ID of error exists and (if so) use JavaScript to scroll down the page to that location.

Does that help?

I managed to do what you suggested and used JavaScript to scroll to the element if it exists on the page, which works really well, but then thought that due to some browsers having JavaScript turned off, that I would have to leave it as it was.

In the end I just changed the element ID to message, which looks better than having #error in the URL.

So now I have:

localhost/thanks/#message for the thankyou page & localhost/#message for the error page

Thanks again Randy and if you think of any other solutions to this, let me know.