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I have a form in html whose "action" attribute calls a contact.php file. The problem is that after I submit the form, the file that is visible is a blank page with the address contact.php and I want to see again the form of the main page.
HTML:
<form id="myForm" action="php-contact/contact.php"
method="post" class="contact_form" autocomplete="off"
role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="input-subject">subject</label>
<input name="subject" type="text" class="form-control" id="subject" placeholder="your subject" maxlength="20"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="input-name">name</label>
<input name="name" type="text" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="your name" maxlength="20"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="input-email">email address</label>
<input name="email" type="text" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="your email" maxlength="40"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group" >
<label for="input-message">message</label>
<textarea name="message" cols="10" rows="10" class="form-control" id="comment" ></textarea>
</div>
<button name="myFormSubmitted" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block">send</button>
</form>
PHP:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$to = "[email protected]";
$message = '
name: '.$name.'
email: '.$email.'
message: '.$message.'
';
$headers = 'From: [email protected]';
if (
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)
)
echo"<script>alert('message send succesfully')</script>";
else
echo"<script>alert('message not send')</script>";
?>
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In order to stay on the same page on submit you can leave action empty ( action="" ) into the form tag, or leave it out altogether. For the message, create a variable ( $message = "Success! You entered: ". $input;" ) and then echo the variable at the place in the page where you want the message to appear with <?
How Redirection Works in PHP. In PHP, when you want to redirect a user from one page to another page, you need to use the header() function. The header function allows you to send a raw HTTP location header, which performs the actual redirection as we discussed in the previous section.
To link a submit button to another webpage using HTML Form Tags: Using the HTML Form's Action Attribute, we can link the submit button to a separate page in the HTML Form element. Here, declare/write the “Submit button” within HTML Form Tags and give the File Path inside the HTML form's action property.
Answer: Use the PHP header() Function You can simply use the PHP header() function to redirect a user to a different page. The PHP code in the following example will redirect the user from the page in which it is placed to the URL http://www.example.com/another-page.php . You can also specify relative URLs.
Use either $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] or use a hidden field on the form with the url of the current page:
<form action="myAction.php">
<input type="hidden" name="destination" value="<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>"/>
<!-- other form inputs -->
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
myAction.php
<?php
/* Do work */
if(isset($_REQUEST["destination"])){
header("Location: {$_REQUEST["destination"]}");
}else if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"])){
header("Location: {$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]}");
}else{
/* some fallback, maybe redirect to index.php */
}
And then even then you should have fallbacks in case for some reason the client isn't respecting HTTP redirects, like some redirect javascript, a meta redirect and a link to the destination.
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Add a JS redirect after your alert then
echo "<script>
alert('message sent succesfully');
window.history.go(-1);
</script>";
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