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rkc444 · 06-27-2006, 02:08 PM

Sorry, but I just posted this without the PHP tags. Here it is again, with tags. I am having trouble figuring out how I post data, and then go to another web page. One or the other seems easy. In one page I have the following line which handles the posting of the data:

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<form name="Summission" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">

And I have another which page where I do not post data, but simply go to another web page:

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<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="https://depts.washington.edu/isei/FileUploadOnlyISEI.php" method="POST">

I am not sure how to post data, as in the first page, and then go to another page. I would appreciate any help you might offer.

It seems like it should be common and easy. Any help? Thanks in advance.

**etono** · 06-28-2006, 02:21 AM

In the first case where you are posting to the same page you would need to redirect to another page... something like this:

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<?php

header( 'location: http://domain.com/newpage.html' );

?>

Be sure that you are redirecting before anything is output.

rkc444 · 06-28-2006, 01:27 PM

That is my problem. I understand that the header function has to be executed prior to any output, and thus prior to writing to the MySQL table, if I am not mistaken. So how do I write to the table and then end up at another page? Or if I have already gone to the other page, how do I then write the data to the table?

**etono** · 06-28-2006, 04:44 PM

Writing to your database does not output anything. By output, I mean displaying to the screen. Here is how I normally go about it:

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<?php

if( isset( $_POST['name'] ) && isset( $_POST['phone'] ) && isset( $_POST['email'] ) ) {

    

    //assuming open database connection

    $sql = "INSERT INTO contacts ( name, phone, email ) VALUES ( '{$_POST['name']}', '{$_POST['phone']}', '{$_POST['email']}' )";

    mysql_query( $sql );

    header( 'location: thankyou.php' );

    exit();

}

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>contact Form</title>

</head>

<body>

<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">

Name:<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" /><br />

Phone:<input type="text" name="phone" value="<?php echo $_POST['phone']; ?>" /><br />

Email:<input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" /><br />

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

</form>

</body>

</html>

Of course I would do some validation on the post variables before checking to see if they are set, and adding it to the database, but hopefully this can give you a good starting point.

8ta8ta · 08-19-2006, 08:49 AM

If there are some output, You can use javascript to location :

location.href = '/aaa.php';