PHP header(location) function not working

Ok, I see...

Maybe you have printed out some text before the header() function, maybe a blank space.

Check the first line of your .php file does not have a blank space, something like this:

--- Blank space ---
<?php

Should be:

<?php

In other words, put the <?php tag on the top of your file.

Once you output any content (an echo statement, or white space or text outside of PHP), then you can no longer modify the header information.

Someone posted a similar problem recently, with a link to a good explanation on Stack Overflow:

• https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/redirecting-after-a-form-submission-not-functioning

Thanks Randy

I found a possible error in your file. Check the second line:

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

This line should be:

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

Only change the position of the close parenthesis symbol.

Hope this helps.

Omar,

Thanks for your reply, and the correction you made was productive in getting the contact.php page to load (again) before submitting the form. However, once the form was submitted, the rest of the code must have had a second error in it because the page stayed on contact.php (as opposed to 'sending the email' and redirecting the user to contact-thanks.php).

I then finished the final video and made the last few modifications to combine all the files together in the contact.php page.

Here's my final code:

<?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;

//To Do: Send Email

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>
        </div>
    <?php } ?>
</div>



<?php include('inc/footer.php') ?>

Jimmy, your new code it's working for me :)

Thanks, Maybe i have a local problem going on.

Maybe you can share your error_log here in the forum :D

I don't have an error message... the page simply turns white and nothing else appears.

You're working in a server or local server?

local server, using MAMP.

If your installation of MAMP does not show php errors, you may need to change a setting in your php.ini file. You can find this file in MAMP > conf > php5 > php.ini

Look for “display_errors = Off” and change to “display_errors = On”

After that you should restart your apache and mysql servers.

Check if with this you can see some kind of error. Share your results.

here is my error: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Users/jimlseeber/Dropbox/Mamp/PHP/contact.php:2) in /Users/jimlseeber/Dropbox/Mamp/PHP/contact.php on line 19

Line 19 of code: header("Location: contact.php?status=thanks");

Wow! Omar Thank you very much!

so having a blank space before the php file breaks it from running?

Not always, in my experience I've only had this kind of problem when I use header function.

A good practice would be to avoid the blank space at the beginning of the file, just to avoid future problems.

Have fun with PHP!

I made the mistake of putting a comment on the top line of my code before the opening <?php ?> and that also broke my headers.