php form response

theonemanyuri · Nov 16, 2012

I don't have any clue about php really so if anyone could give a layman's answer that would be awesome. I've got a contact form, got it all styled as I want, but on submit it currently prints a response, unformatted, on a white page (code below).

if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }

How could I change this to to make it a bit more sophisticated? I don't really want to use js, is there a php solution? Either a pop up to confirm it was/wasn't sent or ideally printing those statements somewhere on the page with the form, as opposed to unformatted on a separate page?

fish · Nov 16, 2012

if successful redirect to home page maybe?

theonemanyuri · Nov 16, 2012

Could do, what would the code be dude? I tried sending it back to the homepage before and it didn't work for some reason

dlone · Nov 16, 2012

Make sure there's no output before it, try:

header('Location: http://www.example.com/');

theonemanyuri · Nov 16, 2012

That's what I tried and it didn't work, I must have put it in the wrong place. Could you give it in context to the rest of the code? Is this right?

if($sent)
{header('Location: http://www.example.com/'); }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }

I literally know sod all php, apologies.

AssetDomains · Nov 16, 2012

Try it like this

Code:

<?php
if($sent)
header('Location: [URL]http://stackoverflow.com'[/URL]);
else 
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; } 
?>

Is there other code on your page before this as it wont work if there is

theonemanyuri · Nov 16, 2012

This is as it is on site, so yeh there is code before it. Would it work if I brought the if and else statements to the top as you've done, and put the the rest below it? Appreciate the help guys, cheers.

Code:

<?php 
 $to = "[email protected]"; 
 $subject = "Contact Us"; 
 $name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; 
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ; 
 $headers = "From: $email"; 
 $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ; 
 if($sent)
 header('Location: http://stackoverflow.com'); 
 else 
 {print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
 ?>