My form will not submit or re-direct

Hi Phillip,

To get it to redirect to another page - which is how Randy shows it first, try this: (sorry its so longwinded it makes no sense without posting the whole code.. )

Can you go to the html form in contact.php and make sure that you have something like the following:

making sure the method = post and there is no action attribute set (so that it posts the name, email and message entered by the user ) back to this same file (contact.php)

            <form method="post"> <!-- make sure it's set to post!!  -->

                <table>

                    <tr>
                        <th><label for="name">Name:</label></th>
                        <td>
                            <input type="text" id="name" name="name">
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <th><label for="email">Email:</label></th>
                        <td>
                            <input type="email" id="email" name="email">
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <th><label for="message">Message:</th>
                        <td>
                            <textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
                        </td>                           
                    </tr>

                </table>

                <input type="submit" value="send">

            </form>

so now when the send button is pressed if you have set the name attributes on each input element, the name, email, message is posted to server and to the same contact.php file and we can then pull them out using $_POST[].

To retrieve the posted values, scroll right up to the top of the same file (contact.php) and start a php block as follows:

if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){ // if the form method is post .. ie if the send button is pressed, then run the below and load the posted variables into php ones $name = $_POST["name"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $message = $_POST["message"];

// then redirect the user to a confirmation page as below: header("Location:contact-thanks.php"); exit; }

NB. Note for this header to work you must have a contact-thanks.php file IN THE SAME directory as your contact.php file

Now for the confirmation page!

// contact-thanks.php (in same directory as contact.php)

<?php 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"); ?>

Hope this helps explain the re-direct!

good luck bud.