Display success message upon form submit

Question

I would like to display a success message on the same page, instead of redirecting the user to the .php file.

I would prefer not to over complicate by using AJAX & jQuery and I would like to keep the PHP file seperate from my form's HTML file.

Is it possible to use a small amount of Javascript for this?

Here is my code;

HTML Form

<div id="viewing-container">
    <div id="viewing-header">
        <h3 class="form-header">Request a Viewing</h3><button type="button" id="close" class="button-primary close-form" onclick="openClose()">&#735;</button>
    </div>
    <div id="viewing-content">
        <div id="success">
            <p class="form">Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch soon.</p>
        </div>
        <p class="form">Please text or call Alex on <a href="">0123456789</a> for fastest response or enter your contact details below and we will call you back as soon as we can.</p>
        <form action="" method="post" autocomplete="on">
            <label for="name">Name <i>&#42;</i></label><input type="text" name="name" autofocus required><br />
            <label for="number">Contact Number <i>&#42;</i></label><input type="tel" name="number" required><br />
            <label for="message">Message <i>&#42;</i></label><textarea type="textarea" name="message" rows="5" required>Please call me to arrange a viewing of one of your properties.</textarea><br />
            <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="###"></div>
                    <br />
            <button type="submit" name="contactSubmit" id="contactSubmit" class="button-primary">Send</button>
        </form>
    </div>

PHP submit code

$name = $number = $message = "";

if(isset($_POST['contactSubmit'])){
    $name = $_POST["name"];
    $number = $_POST["number"];
    $message = $_POST["message"];


    $msg = "Name: " . $name . "\n" . "Number: " . $number "\n" . "Message:" . $message;
    $msg = wordwrap($msg,70);

    $subject = "Viewing Request";

    mail("me@mysite.co.uk", $subject, $msg)
    header("Location: /index.htm");
}

exit;

I have tried using an onclick() Javascript function to display the success , but the form redirects to the PHP file before the Javascript function can be displayed. The only thing I have been able to get to work is a javascript alert function, but this is not very attractive or user friendly. I would like to display the success message and run the external php file without reloading the HTML page.

Please help!! I'm not extremely proficient in PHP or Javascript :( Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

<?php
$nameErr = $numberErr = $messageErr = "";
$name = $number = $message = "";
if(isset($_POST['contactSubmit'])){
$name = $_POST["name"];
$number = $_POST["number"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
$msg = "Name:" . $name . "\n" . "Number: " . $number. "\n" . "Message:" . $message;
    $msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
$subject = "Viewing Request";
mail("me@mysite.co.uk", $subject, $msg)?>
<script>alert("your message is sent successfully");
 window.location="index.html";
</script>
<?php  } ?>

after submitting form you will get a alert with message your message is sent successfully and if you click ok then you will redirect to index.html . Also please used javascript window.location beacuse header will give error of already sent

Answer 2

You can accomplish this by using an AJAX call and jQuery is your best friend here.

jQuery will save you to write a lot of lines of code, its very simple to use, simply add the cdn hosted link to your HTML <head> :

form.html

 <html> <head> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script> </head>

Add this JS script after your form in the html file.
(you can also use a separate file "script.js" and add it to the head after the jquery link, but we will avoid overcomplicating it.)

 <div id="viewing-container"> <!-- your form --> </div> <script> $(document).ready(function() { // hide the success message $('#success').hide(); // process the form $('form').submit(function(event) { // get the form data before sending via ajax var formData = { 'name' : $('input[name=name]').val(), 'number' : $('input[name=number]').val(), 'message' : $('input[name=message]').val(), 'contactSubmit' : 1 }; // send the form to your PHP file (using ajax, no page reload!!) $.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: 'file.php', // <<<< ------- complete with your php filename (watch paths!) data: formData, // the form data dataType: 'json', // how data will be returned from php encode: true }) // JS (jQuery) will do the ajax job and we "will wait that promise be DONE" // only after that, we´ll continue .done(function(data) { if(data.success === true) { // show the message!!! $('#success').show(); } else{ // ups, something went wrong ... alert('Ups!, this is embarrasing, try again please!'); } }); // this is a trick, to avoid the form submit as normal behaviour event.preventDefault(); }); }); </script>

finally, change the last 2 lines of your php file:

 <?php // .... your code .... //mail("me@mysite.co.uk", $subject, $msg) //header("Location: /index.htm"); if(mail("me@mysite.co.uk", $subject, $msg)) { $data['success'] = true; } else{ $data['success'] = false; } // convert the $data to json and echo it // so jQuery can grab it and understand what happend echo json_encode($data); ?>

Display success message upon form submit

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2 answers

solution1
1 2016-06-10 10:01:46

solution2
1 2016-06-12 04:41:53

Display success message upon form submit

Question

2 answers

solution1 1 2016-06-10 10:01:46

solution2 1 2016-06-12 04:41:53

solution1
1 2016-06-10 10:01:46

solution2
1 2016-06-12 04:41:53