Simple PHP Help, Contact Form?

replace

echo "Data has been submitted to $to";

with

header("location: thankyou.php");

OR

Where the echo "Data has been submitted to $to";

is, replace that with your thank you code. The form should post to ITSELF.

<form method="post" action="<? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">

qualify as the area you are trying to code new html?

I would take this:

echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";

mail($to, $subject, $body);

and turn it into this

if(mail($to, $subject, $body)){

echo "success";

}else{

echo "failure";

}

tis way you are actually testing the mail function to ensure that it is sending (mail() returns a binary value)

Here is what I use on my site. It echos back the info, forwards the contact to my email address, and writes the contact info to a file outside of my web directory.

Feel free to use and edit as necessary.

<?php

//echo form data to screen, create body for email and for file

$todaysdate = date("m",time()) . "-" . date("d",time()) . "-" . date("Y",time()) . " " . date("h",time()) . ":" . date("i",time()) . date("a",time());

$email_body = "Date: " . $todaysdate . "\n";

$file_data = $todaysdate;

echo "<ul>";

echo "The following information has been submitted:";

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {

if ($key <> "submit") {

echo "<li><strong>$key:</strong> $value</li>\n";

$email_body = $email_body . $key . ": ".$value ."\n";

$file_data = $file_data ."|".$value;

}

}

echo "</ul>";

//send email

//$emailTime = date_str($timestamp);

$destination_email="xxxxx@xxx.com";

$email_subject="Customer info for ".$_POST['name'];

mail($destination_email,$email_subject,$email_body);

$myfileName = "../files/customers.txt";

//$myPointer = fopen($myfileName, "a+") or die("can't open file");

$myPointer = fopen($myfileName, "a+");

if (!$myPointer) {

echo "File couldn't be opened";

} else {

fputs($myPointer, $file_data);

fclose($myPointer);

}

?>

You have a form somewhere right?

<form action="contact.php" method="post">

The action should be the page where you're sent to after the form.

Everything seems correct.

header("location: thankyou.php");