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perky416

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perky416 Regular Member

perky416

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Hi everyone,

 

I have a page that contains a registration form that writes the users details to a mysql database. Im having some difficulties redirecting to a thank you page after the details have successfully  been submitted.

I have tried using 

header("location: http://whatever.com/thankyou.php");

at the very top of the page however i get redirected as soon as the page loads.

 

Please could someone suggest a good way to redirect to the thankyou page after the data has been inserted to the database? I have included my code if it helps.

 

Thanks

 

<? header("Location: thanks.php"); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<form name="registration_form" method="post">
First Name: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["first_name"]; ?>" type="text" name="first_name"><br />
Last Name: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["last_name"]; ?>" type="text" name="last_name"><br />
Email: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["email"]; ?>" type="text" name="email"><br />
Confirm Email: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["confirm_email"]; ?>" type="text" name="confirm_email"><br />
Username: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["username"]; ?>" type="text" name="username"><br />
Password: <input type="password" name="password"><br />
Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="confirm_password"><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register">
</form>

<?php
$connect=mysql_connect("localhost","leemp5_admin","p7031521");
mysql_select_db("leemp5_database",$connect) or die (mysql_errno().":<b> ".mysql_error()."</b>");

if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
if (empty($_POST['first_name'])){
echo ('Please enter your first name<br />');}

if (empty($_POST['last_name'])){
echo ('Please enter your last name<br />');}
   
if (empty($_POST['email'])){
echo ('Please enter your email address<br />');}

if (!empty($_POST['email'])){	
if(!filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
echo ('The email address you entered is not valid<br />');}}

$email = $_POST["email"];
$emailquery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email='$email'");
if(mysql_num_rows($emailquery) != 0){
echo ('The email you have entered is already in use<br />');}

if (empty($_POST['confirm_email'])){
echo ('Please confirm your email address<br />');}

if (!empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['confirm_email']) &&($_POST['email']) != ($_POST['confirm_email'])){
echo ('The emails you entered do not match<br />');} 
   
if (empty($_POST['username'])){
echo ('Please enter your username<br />');}

if (empty($_POST['password'])){
echo ('Please enter your password<br />');}

if (empty($_POST['confirm_password'])){
echo ('Please confirm your password<br />');}

if ($_POST['password'] != $_POST['confirm_password']){
echo ('The passwords you entered do not match');} 

$username = $_POST["username"];
$usernamequery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username'");
if(mysql_num_rows($usernamequery) != 0){
echo ('The username you have entered is already in use<br />');}

if (!empty($_POST['first_name']) && !empty($_POST['last_name']) && !empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['confirm_email']) && !empty($_POST['username']) && !empty($_POST['password']) && !empty($_POST['confirm_password']) && ($_POST['email']) == ($_POST['confirm_email']) && (filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) && ($_POST['password'] == $_POST['confirm_password']) && (mysql_num_rows($emailquery) == 0) && (mysql_num_rows($usernamequery) == 0))
{			$insert_query = 'insert into users (username,first_name,last_name,email,password) 
				values
				(
				"' . $_POST['username'] . '", 
				"' . $_POST['first_name'] . '",
				"' . $_POST['last_name'] . '",
				"' . $_POST['email'] . '",
				"' . $_POST['password'] . '"
				)';

mysql_query($insert_query);}
}
?>

</body>
</html>

Muddy_Funster Regular Member

Muddy_Funster

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you don't need to run the header() at the very top of the page, just before any output is sent to the browser.  What you need to do is split your form and your insert script over different pages, then you can run the script and then use the header at the end of it.

ZulfadlyAshBurn Regular Member

ZulfadlyAshBurn

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maybe this would come in handy

 

register.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<form name="registration_form" method="post">
First Name: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["first_name"]; ?>" type="text" name="first_name"><br />
Last Name: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["last_name"]; ?>" type="text" name="last_name"><br />
Email: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["email"]; ?>" type="text" name="email"><br />
Confirm Email: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["confirm_email"]; ?>" type="text" name="confirm_email"><br />
Username: <input value = "<?php print $_POST["username"]; ?>" type="text" name="username"><br />
Password: <input type="password" name="password"><br />
Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="confirm_password"><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register">
</form>
</body>
</html>

 

reguser.php

<?php
$connect=mysql_connect("localhost","leemp5_admin","p7031521");
mysql_select_db("leemp5_database",$connect) or die (mysql_errno().":<b> ".mysql_error()."</b>");

if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
if (empty($_POST['first_name'])){
echo ('Please enter your first name<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (empty($_POST['last_name'])){
echo ('Please enter your last name<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}
   
if (empty($_POST['email'])){
echo ('Please enter your email address<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (!empty($_POST['email'])){	
if(!filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
echo ('The email address you entered is not valid<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}}

$email = $_POST["email"];
$emailquery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email='$email'");
if(mysql_num_rows($emailquery) != 0){
echo ('The email you have entered is already in use<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (empty($_POST['confirm_email'])){
echo ('Please confirm your email address<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (!empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['confirm_email']) &&($_POST['email']) != ($_POST['confirm_email'])){
echo ('The emails you entered do not match<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
} 
   
if (empty($_POST['username'])){
echo ('Please enter your username<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (empty($_POST['password'])){
echo ('Please enter your password<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (empty($_POST['confirm_password'])){
echo ('Please confirm your password<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if ($_POST['password'] != $_POST['confirm_password']){
echo ('The passwords you entered do not match');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
} 

$username = $_POST["username"];
$usernamequery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username'");
if(mysql_num_rows($usernamequery) != 0){
echo ('The username you have entered is already in use<br />');
header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');
}

if (!empty($_POST['first_name']) && !empty($_POST['last_name']) && !empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['confirm_email']) && !empty($_POST['username']) && !empty($_POST['password']) && !empty($_POST['confirm_password']) && ($_POST['email']) == ($_POST['confirm_email']) && (filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) && ($_POST['password'] == $_POST['confirm_password']) && (mysql_num_rows($emailquery) == 0) && (mysql_num_rows($usernamequery) == 0))
{			$insert_query = 'insert into users (username,first_name,last_name,email,password) 
				values
				(
				"' . $_POST['username'] . '", 
				"' . $_POST['first_name'] . '",
				"' . $_POST['last_name'] . '",
				"' . $_POST['email'] . '",
				"' . $_POST['password'] . '"
				)';

mysql_query($insert_query);}
echo "<br><center>You have successfully registered!</center>";
header('Refresh: 3; url=index.php');
}
?>

 

after all if {}, before the syntax 

}

i have added 

header('Refresh: 3; url=register.php');

so that user will be redirected to the register page after it.

 

two lines before the end of the reguser.php, it show that it will echo successful and redirect to index.php after 3 seconds

Pikachu2000 Prolific Member

Pikachu2000

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So if the user makes errors, only one error is reported, and they're redirected back to a now empty form? From a user-friendliness standpoint, that's a horrible way to do it. All fields should be validated, all validation errors should be reported at once on the form with the values the user entered already pre-filled so they can make all corrections at once and resubmit.

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