music_fan01 Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 My contact form works, but how can I reset it so that when someone fills in the required information and the send the email, I want the information from the text boxes to clear. Right now, it doesnt do that, the name,email address, and message remains in the text boxes. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!-- Author: Reality Software Website: http://www.realitysoftware.ca Note: This is a free template released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means you can use it in any way you want provided you keep the link to the author intact. --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Contact</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> <body> <!-- header --> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"><a href="#">Header</a></div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--end header --> <!-- main --> <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div id="text"> <h1><strong>Contact</strong></h1> </div> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <?php if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { if ($_POST['name'] != "") { $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['name'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['email'] != "") { $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>"; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['message'] != "") { $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['message'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } if (!$errors) { $first_name=$_POST['name']; $email_address=$_POST['email']; $subject = 'Email Submission'; $message=$_POST['message']; mail("myemailaddress@gmail.com","$subject", $message,"From: $first_name <$email_address>"); echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } else { echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>'; } } ?> <form name="form1" method="post" action="contact.php"> Name: <br/> <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" size="50" /><br/><br/> Email Address: <br/> <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" size="50"/> <br/><br/> Message: <br/> <textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="50"><?php echo $_POST['message']; ?></textarea> <br/> <input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/> <input type="Reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"/> </form> <!-- footer --> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div id="footer"> <div id="left_footer">© Copyright 2011<strong> Author </strong></div> <div id="right_footer"> <!-- Please do not change or delete this link. Read the license! Thanks. :-) --> Design by <a href="http://www.realitysoftware.ca" title="Website Design">Reality Software</a> <!-- end footer --></div> <!-- end main --></div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 You should be able to reload the page with a header and add the thank you as a get value. <?PHP //So instead of echoing here in your processing script //echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; // use a header with get header("Location:contact.php?thankyou"); //Then outside the processing script add If (isset($_GET['thankyou')){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music_fan01 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Just to make sure I am placing it in the right spot. Author: Reality Software Website: http://www.realitysoftware.ca Note: This is a free template released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means you can use it in any way you want provided you keep the link to the author intact. --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Contact</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> <body> <!-- header --> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"><a href="#">Header</a></div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--end header --> <!-- main --> <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div id="text"> <h1><strong>Contact</strong></h1> </div> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <?php if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { if ($_POST['name'] != "") { $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['name'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['email'] != "") { $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>"; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['message'] != "") { $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['message'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } if (!$errors) { $first_name=$_POST['name']; $email_address=$_POST['email']; $subject = 'Email Submission'; $message=$_POST['message']; mail("myemailaddress@gmail.com","$subject", $message,"From: $first_name <$email_address>"); header("Location:contact.php?thankyou"); If (isset($_GET['thankyou')){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } } else { echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>'; } } ?> <form name="form1" method="post" action="contact.php"> Name: <br/> <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" size="50" /><br/><br/> Email Address: <br/> <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" size="50"/> <br/><br/> Message: <br/> <textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="50"><?php echo $_POST['message']; ?></textarea> <br/> <input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/> <input type="Reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"/> </form> <!-- footer --> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div id="footer"> <div id="left_footer">© Copyright 2011<strong> Author </strong></div> <div id="right_footer"> <!-- Please do not change or delete this link. Read the license! Thanks. :-) --> Design by <a href="http://www.realitysoftware.ca" title="Website Design">Reality Software</a> <!-- end footer --></div> <!-- end main --></div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 You don't want this within the if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { tags. It should be by itself. If (isset($_GET['thankyou')){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music_fan01 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Ok, I think I may have got it now. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!-- Author: Reality Software Website: http://www.realitysoftware.ca Note: This is a free template released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means you can use it in any way you want provided you keep the link to the author intact. --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Contact</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> <body> <!-- header --> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"><a href="#">Header</a></div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--end header --> <!-- main --> <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div id="text"> <h1><strong>Contact</strong></h1> </div> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <?php if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { if ($_POST['name'] != "") { $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['name'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['email'] != "") { $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>"; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['message'] != "") { $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['message'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } if (!$errors) { $first_name=$_POST['name']; $email_address=$_POST['email']; $subject = 'Email Submission'; $message=$_POST['message']; mail("myemailaddress@gmail.com","$subject", $message,"From: $first_name <$email_address>"); echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } else { echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>'; } } ?> <?PHP header("Location:contact.php?thankyou"); //Then outside the processing script add If (isset($_GET['thankyou'])){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } ?> <form name="form1" method="post" action="contact.php"> Name: <br/> <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" size="50" /><br/><br/> Email Address: <br/> <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" size="50"/> <br/><br/> Message: <br/> <textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="50"><?php echo $_POST['message']; ?></textarea> <br/> <input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/> <input type="Reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"/> </form> <!-- footer --> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div id="footer"> <div id="left_footer">© Copyright 2011<strong> Author </strong></div> <div id="right_footer"> <!-- Please do not change or delete this link. Read the license! Thanks. :-) --> Design by <a href="http://www.realitysoftware.ca" title="Website Design">Reality Software</a> <!-- end footer --></div> <!-- end main --></div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 How about this <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!-- Author: Reality Software Website: http://www.realitysoftware.ca Note: This is a free template released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means you can use it in any way you want provided you keep the link to the author intact. --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Contact</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> <body> <!-- header --> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"><a href="#">Header</a></div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--end header --> <!-- main --> <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div id="text"> <h1><strong>Contact</strong></h1> </div> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <?php if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { if ($_POST['name'] != "") { $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['name'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['email'] != "") { $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>"; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['message'] != "") { $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['message'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } if (!$errors) { $first_name=$_POST['name']; $email_address=$_POST['email']; $subject = 'Email Submission'; $message=$_POST['message']; mail("myemailaddress@gmail.com","$subject", $message,"From: $first_name <$email_address>"); header("Location:contact.php?thankyou"); } else { echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>'; } } ?> <?PHP //Then outside the processing script add If (isset($_GET['thankyou'])){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } ?> <form name="form1" method="post" action="contact.php"> Name: <br/> <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['name'])){ echo $_POST['name'];} ?>" size="50" /><br/><br/> Email Address: <br/> <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['email'])){ echo $_POST['email'];} ?>" size="50"/> <br/><br/> Message: <br/> <textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="50"><?php if(isset($_POST['message'])){ echo $_POST['message'];} ?></textarea> <br/> <input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/> <input type="Reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"/> </form> <!-- footer --> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div id="footer"> <div id="left_footer">© Copyright 2011<strong> Author </strong></div> <div id="right_footer"> <!-- Please do not change or delete this link. Read the license! Thanks. :-) --> Design by <a href="http://www.realitysoftware.ca" title="Website Design">Reality Software</a> <!-- end footer --></div> <!-- end main --></div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 You can't send any output to the browser before header(). The form processing needs to be handled before anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Hey my bad. I always have processing above any output. I should have noticed that. <?php if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) { if ($_POST['name'] != "") { $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['name'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['email'] != "") { $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>"; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>'; } if ($_POST['message'] != "") { $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['message'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } } else { $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>'; } if (!$errors) { $first_name=$_POST['name']; $email_address=$_POST['email']; $subject = 'Email Submission'; $message=$_POST['message']; mail("myemailaddress@gmail.com","$subject", $message,"From: $first_name <$email_address>"); header("Location:contact.php?thankyou"); } else { echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>'; } } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!-- Author: Reality Software Website: http://www.realitysoftware.ca Note: This is a free template released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means you can use it in any way you want provided you keep the link to the author intact. --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Contact</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> <body> <!-- header --> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"><a href="#">Header</a></div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--end header --> <!-- main --> <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div id="text"> <h1><strong>Contact</strong></h1> </div> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <?PHP //Then outside the processing script add If (isset($_GET['thankyou'])){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } ?> <form name="form1" method="post" action="contact.php"> Name: <br/> <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['name'])){ echo $_POST['name'];} ?>" size="50" /><br/><br/> Email Address: <br/> <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['email'])){ echo $_POST['email'];} ?>" size="50"/> <br/><br/> Message: <br/> <textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="50"><?php if(isset($_POST['message'])){ echo $_POST['message'];} ?></textarea> <br/> <input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/> <input type="Reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"/> </form> <!-- footer --> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div id="footer"> <div id="left_footer">© Copyright 2011<strong> Author </strong></div> <div id="right_footer"> <!-- Please do not change or delete this link. Read the license! Thanks. :-) --> Design by <a href="http://www.realitysoftware.ca" title="Website Design">Reality Software</a> <!-- end footer --></div> <!-- end main --></div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Also, any header redirect should also be immediately followed with exit(); to prevent any further execution of code in the script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music_fan01 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 The exit should be like this right? <?PHP //Then outside the processing script add If (isset($_GET['thankyou'])){ echo "Thank you for your email!<br/><br/>"; } exit(); ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 No after the header line. header("Location:contact.php?thankyou"); exit(); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music_fan01 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Thanks for the help! Works like it should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Don't get many thank you's around here so thank you for the thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music_fan01 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 You are very much welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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