Email Form Help

programming web dev
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In trying to use the email contact form on your site , I get the following error when the send button is pushed:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/telact5/public_html/tinasrangegear.com/mailer.php:10) in /home/telact5/public_html/tinasrangegear.com/mailer.php on line 28

This is, in fact, the line in mailer.php which points to the confirmation page (which exists):

header(‘Location: confirmation.htm’);

The email does send and can be received but the confirmation page will not display. Any idea why this doesn’t work?

Thanks

2

Interesting. Can you post your full PHP code? (Feel free to remove things like your e-mail address so that spambots don’t find it so easily :P)

3

Kirupa, thanks for the reply. Not sure how to attach a file to a post so am copying the .php file contents here. And yes, I’ve removed the URLs. As I said, the confirmation page does exist with the correct name (confirmation.htm). Any ideas?

Untitled Document <?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { $to = "[email protected]"; $subject = "An Email from blahblah"; // data the visitor provided $name_field = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); $email_field = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL); $comment = filter_var($_POST['comment'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //constructing the message $body = " From: $name_field\n\n E-Mail: $email_field\n\n Message:\n\n $comment"; // ...and away we go! mail($to, $subject, $body); // redirect to confirmation header('Location: confirmation.htm'); } else { // handle the error somehow } ?>
4

Interesting. I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Can you try out the PHP form with just the header line. Basically, this:

<?php
// redirect to confirmation
header('Location: confirmation.htm');
?>

I am curious to know if this works just fine!

5

Kirupa - I did as you suggested and used only the header and received the exact same error message. I am starting to think this has something to do with how my server is handling php. I use Inmotion for hosting and will call their tech department later today to see if they have run into this problem before. Maybe they have a custom php script which needs to be used.

Can’t thank you enough for your time and help. I’ll let you know if I come up with any answers. Best wishes, David

6

Yep - that does sound like a server configuration issue :stuck_out_tongue: Let me know what they end up saying. If they can’t make any modifications, we can look at some alternatives (if there are any)!