Redirect of form submit
6 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: December 2, 2013 (RSS)
By Toledoh - November 28, 2013
Hi Guys,
A client once to have a a form filled in on their site, and if succesul, redirect to another page rather than:
//
$errorsAndAlerts = "Thank you for contacting the us. We have received your enquiry and will be in touch with you as soon as possible.";
$_REQUEST = array(); // clear form values
They want this new page so they can add some google conversion tracking script (they've supplied)
How do I say - "If no errors, go to this page..."
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
By Dave - November 28, 2013
Hi Tim,
We have a CMSB function for that. Try this:
//
redirectBrowserToURL("/"); // redirect to the root of your website, or /page.php or http://www.google.com/ or etc.
exit;
//$errorsAndAlerts = "Thank you for contacting the us. We have received your enquiry and will be in touch with you as soon as possible.";
//$_REQUEST = array(); // clear form values
You don't need to worry about checking for errors, because if the script is in the part above it's already means there's no errors (since it's using $errorsAndAlerts to show a success message).
Let me know if that works for you. Thanks!
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By Codee - December 2, 2013
Hi Dave,
Here's a follow up question. Let's say that the form has no errors, successfully submits, and then the visitor gets redirected to the correct URL...is there an easy way at this juncture to have CMSB email the administrator that a form was just submitted?
Thanks!
By Dave - December 2, 2013
Hi equinox,
Yes, typically you'd send the email and then redirect the user and you'd do that by inserting some "send email" code right before the redirect. Here's some example code that uses CMSB's sendMessage() function:
$mailErrors = sendMessage(array(
'from' => "from@example.com",
'to' => "to@example.com",
'subject' => "Enter subject here",
'text' => "Text message content here",
));
if ($mailErrors) { die("problem sending message: $mailErrors); }
Hope that helps!
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