提交“联系”消息后，如何使它停留在页面上并生成文本确认？

Question

I've seen this question asked on Stack Overflow before, but haven't been able to get the previous solutions to work, for my site!

I have a 'Contact' page on a website ( staging.twotailsmedia.com) . And right now, the Contact page works and sends an email to the right place, but it generates a 'Thank you!' message on a new, separate, unformatted page. Not what I want. I want it to stay on the Contact page, generate the 'Thank you!' confirmation on the form next to the submit button.

Here's my Form's HTML from the index.html file:

<form method="POST" action="mail.php">

   <div class="field half first">
      <label for="name">Name</label>
      <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
   </div>

<div class="field half">
   <label for="email">Email</label>
   <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
</div>

<div class="field">
   <label for="message">Message</label>
   <textarea name="message" id="message" rows="4"></textarea>
</div>

<ul class="actions">
   <li><input type="submit" value="Send Message" class="special" /></li>
   <li><input type="reset" value="Reset" /></li>
</ul>

</form>

Here's the PHP from the mail.php file:

<?php

        $name = $_POST['name'];

        $email = $_POST['email'];

        $message = $_POST['message'];

        $formcontent="From: $name \n Message: $message";

        $recipient = "info@emailaddress.com";

        $subject = "A message from the Two Tails MEdia website!";

        $mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";

        mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");

        echo "Thank You! We'll get back to you.";
}
?>

Usually I'd just get a Contact Form plugin from Wordpress but I'm trying to do a non-WP page so I can get a deeper understanding of the web development process.

Answer 1

Use Ajax to submit your form and by success show your message. Try this code:

$('form').submit(function(e){
   e.preventDefault();
   $.ajax({
     type:'post',
     url:'mail.php',
     data:$(this).serialize(),
     success:function(){
         $('form')[0].reset(); // to reset the form
         $('#contact').hide(); // to hide the Contact article
         $('#message').show(); // to show the hidden message
     }
   })
})