[SOLVED] How to End Form Processing on Success

[webref.eu]

Hi All

 

I have a form that takes user input and posts back to itself.  Once the form input has been validated, it inserts the data into my database.  At this point I effectively want to stop the script running, and show a msg that says "Thanks for your input".  At the moment, even after the validation and insert has been done, the form is incorrectly displayed again, just because the page is posting back and the form html appears at the bottom of the page. 

 

So, what's the best way to interrupt processing and display the user msg? 

 

I tried using a statement like: 

 

header("Location: $newpage");

 

but it didn't like that. 

 

Thanks All.

 

[MatthewJ]

Generally you wrap the enire page contents in an if statement...

 

Then, if the data validates and gets posted to the db, display the success message, if not load the form again.

[revraz]

echo "Thanks for your input";

exit;

 

Header won't work if you already sent output to the browser, but you can use a HTML or Javascript redirect.

[webref.eu]

OK, thanks everybody.