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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Adding a Contact Form Redirecting After a Form Submission

Posted by Zander Fields
Zander Fields
Courses Plus Student 5,458 Points

Redirect doesn't seem to work

Hello, I've got my code looking exactly like what Randy has in his tutorial, but I can't seem to get the redirect to occur. Does anyone else have this issue?

3 Answers

Eric Martz
Eric Martz
16,007 Points
Eric Martz
Eric Martz
16,007 Points

Can you post your code so we can see it?

Zander Fields
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Zander Fields
Courses Plus Student 5,458 Points
Zander Fields
Zander Fields
Courses Plus Student 5,458 Points

Sure! Here's my contact-process:

<?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;

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

?>

Also, here's my contact.php page

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

    <div class="section page">

        <div class="wrapper">

        <h1>Contact</h1>

        <p>I&rsquo;d love to hear from you! Complete the form to send me an email.</p>

        <form method="post" action="contact-process.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">E-mail</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                            <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <th>
                            <label for="message">Message</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                            <textarea type="text" name="message" id="message"></textarea>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            <input type="submit" value="Send">
        </form>

        </div>

    </div>

    <?php include('inc/footer.php'); ?>
Zander Fields
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Zander Fields
Courses Plus Student 5,458 Points
Zander Fields
Zander Fields
Courses Plus Student 5,458 Points

Just found the answer: I was echoing $email_body, which you can't do with a header() function. Thanks for looking into it though Eric!