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Posted by ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points

Please Take a look at my code and find my error because I Can't.

I am finishing up with the if/else statements for my form on "How to build a Simple PHP application and I can't seem to find why it is not working. From what I can see I have my code matching the one in Randy's video. I think I have everything there but it is not redirecting to the get variable statusthanks and showing the thank you message, instead it is simply going the form.

<?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;

// ToDO: 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="email" 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'); ?>

Also if there is a better way then to just copy and paste my code on to the forum please let me know.

Thank you for your help, I have given up staring at this code.

4 Answers

Michael Nguyen
Michael Nguyen
6,138 Points

I think you have a typo. Use $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST"

ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points

Thanks for the try but no that is not doing it.

ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points

I am so sorry Michael, you were right. I still could not see my mistake even when you wrote it out for me. Thank you for your help....I feel like an idiot but I am glad to be able to move forward. It did make me review everything in that lesson about 5x.

Michael Nguyen
Michael Nguyen
6,138 Points

I am glad it works out for you. This is a nature of programming. Don]t bother about it too much. Sometime the solutions are right in front of me and I only get it after weeks or even months :)

ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points
ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points

Ok I noticed my code didn't post very well, tips?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The forum uses markdown to correctly format code, check out this thread on how to type code in the forum for some examples.

ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points
ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points

Thanks James.

ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points
ryanandrews
ryanandrews
7,822 Points 
<?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;

    // ToDO: 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="email" name="email" id="email">
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <label for="message">Message</label>
                                </th>
                                <td>
                                    <textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea> 
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <label for="reason">Reason</label>
                                </th>
                                <td>
                                    <select name="Reasons" id="Reason">
                                        <option value="Blank">---</option>
                                        <option value="Size">Size Inquiry</option>
                                        <option value="Payment">Payment</option>
                                        <option value="Other">Other</option>
                                    </select
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>    
                        <input type="submit" value="send">

                    </form>

                <?php } ?>
            </div>          

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