联系表单HTML，返回.html文件中的“成功”文本

Question

i have this question and i can't find a solution. I'm pretty new in the programming. So..

my HTML file with the form is contact.html (straight html file)

The php code is in separated file. So, everythings work fine, but.. I want to have the return text for the "success" or "fail" in the in my html file (let's say under the submit button). Is it possible if it's not php file with html code, but straight html. And can you tell me what should I do?

I hope you understand me.

Answer 1

Straight HTML can't give different content conditionally.

You could get something that resembles what you describe by placing an iframe after the form and target ing it with the form. As solutions go, that's rather ugly.

You could use JavaScript to send the form data to the PHP file and then modify the DOM of the HTML document based on the response (Ajax), but that would be unnecessarily complex and violate the best practise of unobtrusive JavaScript .

The usual approach to this problem is to have a PHP file being the single entry point for all things relating to the form (it can keep parts of its logic or HTML in other files and include() them as needed) and have it decide, based on what input receives, if it should show:

• The plain form
• The form with error messages (and pre-populated with the user's incorrect submitted data)
• The thank-you