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Jeff Hoffman
6,196 PointsProblem Redirecting a PHP Form
I am following along with the PHP introduction track, and I am stuck because I can't get the page to redirect from contact-process.php to contact-thanks.php. Is there a way someone can look at my pages and tell me what the problem is? I don't know how I share the URL or files. All I have is this: http://localhost/
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Jeff,
You can't share your local files.
You can paste your code in here and somebody can take a look at it. See this thread for how to do it: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/posting-code-to-the-forum
Post your code for "contact-process.php" if you can.
Jeff Hoffman
6,196 PointsThe first section of code is my "contact-process.php". The second section is my "contact-thanks.php". Any ideas of what might be wrong would be really helpful.
<?php
$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-thanks.php");
?>
<?php
$pageTitle = "Contact Mike";
$section = "contact";
include("inc/header.php");
?>
<div class = "section page">
<div class = "wrapper">
<h1>Contact</h1>
<p>Thanks for the email! I will be in touch shortly.</p>
</div>
</div>
<?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>
2 Answers
Aaron Graham
18,033 PointsWhen you say you can't get it to redirect, do you mean that nothing happens at all, or does it try to redirect but just gives you an error? If you are getting an error, i.e. page not found, check the file path of contact-thanks.php. With the redirect location you are using, this file should be in the document root of your server. If that isn't where it is, either change the redirect to match the file path as it relates to the document root (something like header("Location: /actual/path/from/document/root/contact-thanks.php")), or move the file to the document root.
If you aren't getting a not found error, check to make sure that there aren't any HTML or php echo statements before the redirect. If what you have above for contact-process.php is all that is in the file, you are probably OK, however if contact-process.php is being included by another file that does have HTML or echo statements, it might be an issue. My guess is that you are getting to contact-process.php from a form submission (i.e. from some form element like this: <form method="post" action="contact-process.php">). If that is correct, this probably isn't your issue.
Last but not least, how are you serving these documents? Are other php files rendering OK? If not, you might have an issue with php not being enabled.
Given you set of circumstances, do any of these sound possible?
Jeff Hoffman
6,196 PointsI dug a little further back into my code and found that I accidentally left "contact-process.php" as "inc/contact-process.php" which I had later moved out of that folder. All fixed. Thanks for the help.
Finding these bugs is definitely the toughest thing about coding - a small enough error with a big enough consequence could drive a person crazy.
Aaron Graham
18,033 PointsAaron Graham
18,033 PointsThe best thing for you to do would be to post your code directly to the forum. You can use the Markdown Cheatsheet (link right below answer box) to see how to best format your code.