Echo a message on header location return

JonnyDriller · January 30, 2020

I have this working script below. I never managed to turn it into a function... I think it's because there's classes in it.

I stopped that investigation and instead I choose to:- keep it on another page, trigger it with the a <form> button, then return to the form page using header location.

This is probably much more elaborate than it needs to be... but it seems to be working fine.

I'd like to print out "email sent" if successful. The collection of confusion at the end of this script, is me trying to get it to return the - "email sent" message

<index.php>

<?php

require 'includes/PHPMailer.php';
require 'includes/SMTP.php';
require 'includes/Exception.php';

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->isSMTP();

$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";

$mail->SMTPAuth = "true";

$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";

$mail->Port = "587";

$mail->Username = "email@gmail.com";

$mail->Password = "pass";

$mail->Subject = "Test email using PhPmailer";

$mail->setFrom("email@gmail.com");

$mail->isHTML(true);

//$mail->addAttachment('img/movie.mp4');

$mail->Body = "<h1>This is a HTML heading</h1></br><p>This is a html title</p>";

$mail->addAddress("email@gmail.com");

if ($mail->Send() ) {
	echo "Email sent..!";	
}
else{
	echo "Error..!";
}

$mail->smtpClose();

ob_start();
$Message = urlencode("Email Sent");
header("Location:EmailBut.html?Message=".$Message);
die;
ob_flush();
?>

The stuff at the beginning of this next script is me trying to get it to print out email sent.

I can get it to return the message in the URL but it won't print out.

<EmailBut.html>


<?php
ob_start();
if(isset($_GET['Message'])){
    echo $_GET['Message'];
}

echo $_GET['Message'];
ob_flush();
?>

<html>
<body>
<form action="index.php" method="POST">
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Can you please give me a push in the right direct here?

Edited January 30, 2020 by JonnyDriller

Barand · January 30, 2020

Lose the output buffering (ob_ functions).

Rename "EmailBut.html" to "EmailBut.php" so that php code is executed.

The first code should end like this

    .
    .
    .
if ($mail->Send() ) {
    $Message = "Email sent..!";    
}
else{
    $Message = "Error..!";
}

$mail->smtpClose();

$Message = urlencode($Message);
header("Location:EmailBut.php?Message=$Message");
?>

EmailBut.php

<?php
if(isset($_GET['Message'])){
    echo $_GET['Message'];
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="index.php" method="POST">
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>

JonnyDriller · January 30, 2020

@Barand You're a legend ! Thx so much, most of the day I'm trying to do that... Finally I can sleep...

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