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[tomsk]

I have a small problem with a php email script and have no knowledge of php.

if(mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
echo 'Message sent!';

It works but just gives when an email is submitted the following text - 'message sent' - however I would like it to bit more imaginative ie: message sent redirecting you back to our home page - short delay then home page shows.

Any idea on the php require to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

[tomsk]

So a quick look around youtube and google suggests the following.

if(mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
echo "<meta http=equiv='refresh' content='0;url=http://url of page I would like to redirect to>";

However just shows me a blank page.

[Randy]

You're most of the way there already. Just need to combine a couple of things.

In the meantime, have a drink or three!

Try this on for size and see if it accomplishes what you want.

CODE

if(mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
echo 'Message sent!<br />You will be redirected to our home page in five seconds';
echo "<meta http=equiv='refresh' content='5;url=http://url of page I would like to redirect to>";

[tomsk]

Randy - message appears fine about redirect to home page but then just stays there.

So I am clear that I an doing it correctly it would look like this to redirect here?

if(mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
echo 'Message sent!<br />You will be redirected to our home page in five seconds';
echo "<meta http=equiv='refresh' content='5;url=http://www.highrankings.com>";

[Randy]

Right.

Make sure it has a closing curly bracket at the end too, otherwise PHP is going to error out. And there was a missing single quote in there that may or may not have an effect.

Revamped the whole block would look like:

CODE

if(mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
echo "<meta http=equiv='refresh' content='5;url=http://www.highrankings.com'>";
echo "Message sent!<br />You will be redirected to our home page in five seconds";
}

[tomsk]

Nope still not doing it for me - looks like a lock in in the pub area.

Still just shows the redirect information and does not then go to proposed url.

[Randy]

Just a quick note for those reading along.

There is an additional small syntax error in there I didn't notice before. It's in the js redirect part where it says meta http=equiv. This of course should be meta http-equiv with a dash and not an equal sign.

So for future readers who might find this, the corrected code would be

CODE

if(mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='5;url=http://www.highrankings.com'>";
echo "Message sent!<br />You will be redirected to our home page in five seconds";
}

[tomsk]

Thanks Randy!