display message on redirect form after submission

[alohatofu]

I'm using a formmail - which upon submission, process a form, then redirect them to a php page that I created.  How do I go about in post whatever message the user submitted on that form?

[drisate]

Your gona have to give more information if you would like an awnser ... Post us the code.

 

To redirect use the meta redirection

and to get the form data use $_POST

[alohatofu]

My form

<form method="POST" action="http://directory_to_formmail/submitform" name="mail_form">
<input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="[email protected]">
<textarea name="message" wrap=physical cols=23 rows=4></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
<input type="hidden" name="redirecturl" value="http://myweb.com/redirect.php>

 

when the user submitted and redirected to redirect.php, I would like to display the $message.

 

 

on redirect.php I have

 

$body = $_POST['message'];

echo $body;

 

but it does not work

 

[drisate]

The code would look like

 

<?php

$sec="5";
echo $_POST[message]."<br><br><b>You will be redirected to $_POST[redirecturl] in 5 seconds</b>";
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="'.$sec.';url='.$_POST[redirecturl].'"/>';

?>

[drewbee]

It seems that you are new to PHP. Please, PLEASE as a very basic security concern use the function htmlspecialchars() on any variable that is collected from user input and displayed on any page. Doing this helps prevent XSS injection attacks.

[alohatofu]

The code would look like

 

<?php

$sec="5";
echo $_POST[message]."<br><br><b>You will be redirected to $_POST[redirecturl] in 5 seconds</b>";
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="'.$sec.';url='.$_POST[redirecturl].'"/>';

?>

 

I'm still not sure what you mean by that. Where do i insert that code to? what what does it do?

[alohatofu]

could someone pleaseeee help?

[Asheeown]

The code would look like

 

<?php

$sec="5";
echo $_POST[message]."<br><br><b>You will be redirected to $_POST[redirecturl] in 5 seconds</b>";
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="'.$sec.';url='.$_POST[redirecturl].'"/>';

?>

 

What this means is that it takes the message posted in the form $_POST[message] and your redirect url "$_POST[redirecturl]" and makes a text display...for example

 

This is the users message that will be posted here

 

You will be redirected to www.domain.com/somefile.php in 5 seconds

 

Then it redirects them in 5 seconds

[alohatofu]

Right, but what I'm trying to achieve is that when the user submit, the form process via the formmail <form method="POST" action="http://webapps/mailer/submitform" name="mail_form">

 

and it's emailing the form to a user. then redirect the user to a page.  right now I got everything working except it does not carry the message over to the new page.  I even did this

 

<input type="hidden" name="redirecturl" value="http://mywebpage/abc/<?php echo "pagingtestconfirm.php?message=$POST_['message']&itemId=$itemId&memberId=$memberId"; ?>>