More API examples needed for mailchimp - send data then redirect

Question

I'm relatively new to mailchimp and have been using this post to implement a very simple email capture form that will redirect to a new landing page on submit. I have been using this post: using an existing form to send data to mailchimp, then redirect

I understand everything in the post except I need an example for this statement:

"However, if you want to redirect, you'd simply alter your jQuery ajax function to do so."

Can someone provide an example of how to alter the jQuery ajax function? Also I don't need it to return a success or failure message, I just need it to capture the name / email and then immediately redirect to the next page.

Thanks

Answer 1

Sparky is saying that you can modify the success function of the AJAX that is part of the submit function tied to form $('#signup') .

ie, Currently the success function is:

...
success: function(msg) {
        $('#message').html(msg);
    }
...

And you could just update to redirect doing something like:

...
success: function(msg) {
        document.location = '/target/path/file.html';
    }
...

EDIT - Doing the above will redirect the browser - so long as the AJAX call is successful (not necessarily that the API call was successful.) So even if the PHP is returning an error in the message - the success function is called because it is referring to the success of the AJAX call itself.

If you want to redirect only on a successful message returned by the PHP file then you'll have to check the incoming msg and handle accordingly.

...
success: function(msg) {
  if (msg.indexOf('Success') != -1) {
   document.location = '/target/path/file.html';
  } else {
   $('#message').html(msg);
  }
}
...

This will redirect the browser on a successful message return from the PHP file, otherwise it will display the message in $('#message') .