Form sends an email, displays a new page.

[Goulbar]

Hey guys.

I'm trying to write a PHP file that will take the data entered into a form on an html page and send it to an email address, with a nice, decent layout, and then display a new page once it is successful. Here's what I have so far, but for some reason it just isn't working.

<form id="contact_form" method="post" action="send_form_email.php" novalidate>

<div>
<label>Name:*</label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" tabindex="1">
</div>

<div>
<label>Email:*</label>
<span id="sprytextfield1">
<label>
<input type="text" name="validateEmail" id="validateEmail" tabindex="2"/>
</label>
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span><span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Invalid format.</span></span>
<br/><br/>
<p class="center"><input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" tabindex="4">
<a href="send_form_email.php">Email Form</a>
<br/><br/>
<br />
</p>

</form>
<div id="textarea">
<label>Comments:*</label>
<span id="sprytextarea1">
<textarea id="comments2" name="comments2" form="contact_form" tabindex="3"></textarea><br/>
<span id="countsprytextarea1">* disabled word *</span><br/><span class="textareaRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span><span class="textareaMinChar* disabled word ** disabled word ** disabled word *g">Minimum number of characters not met.</span><span class="textareaMaxChar* disabled word ** disabled word ** disabled word *g">Exceeded maximum number of characters.</span></span></div><!-- #textarea -->
</div><!--End forms-->

And here's the PHP

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "someRandomAddress@domain.com";
$email_subject = "New Contact Form Submission";

$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['validateEmail']; // required
$comments = $_POST['comments2']; // required

$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}

$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";


// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>

<!-- include your own success html here -->

//essentially, this should redirect to a new page.

<?php
}
?>

[mat3000000]

http://bakerdesigns.co.uk/blog/2012/...-and-tutorial/

[Marvendale]

Very simple. First create the page to be redirected to:

<p>Thanks for the message!</p>

Named success.html.

And then add this line in the PHP script immediately after it has sent the email:

header('Location: /path/to/success.html');

An easier approach is conditional detection such as this script.