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PHP

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Posted by Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

Redirecting After a Form Submission

Hi,

I am doing "Redirecting After a Form Submission" in "Build a Simple PHP Application", and got to the part where Randy has us take the users to the "contact-thanks.php". But it dosen't work for me.

Here is the code I have in contact-process.php:

<?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;
    echo $email_body;

    //TODO: Send Email

header("Location: contact-thanks.php");
?>

Here is contact-thanks.php:

    <?php 
    $page_title = "Contact Mike";
    $section = "contact";
    include("inc/header.php"); ?>

    <div class="section_page">

        <div class="wrapper">

            <h1>Contact</h1>

            <p>Thanks for the email. I&rsquo;ll be in touch shortly.</p>

        </div>

    </div>

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

And here is a link to my layout.

Thanks.

2 Answers

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

Figured it out. Had to take out the echo command.

Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Yep. Once anything gets echo'd out or displayed to the screen, it is too late to set headers. Glad you got it working!

adrie silva
adrie silva
6,416 Points

Hi I have a question about redirecting contact forms.

adrie silva
adrie silva
6,416 Points
adrie silva
adrie silva
6,416 Points

This question is for Randy,

If I'm placing my contact form in an iframe, or using an iframe, the function header () won't work, what do you suggest?

Thanks!