Submit button!!!

ghostrider

Hello everyone, I'm in need of some help. I created a simple customer information page requesting name, address, etc., with a submit button. That when clicked it will give you a Thank you statement. But I cannot seem to get it to work right. Can somone give me some pointers.

eWish

We can not help without seeing the markup. It may not even be an HTML or CSS issue.

--Kevin

nomad

Hello everyone, I'm in need of some help. I created a simple customer information page requesting name, address, etc., with a submit button. That when clicked it will give you a Thank you statement. But I cannot seem to get it to work right. Can somone give me some pointers.

question for you:
What actions do you have for your submit button.
Are you emailing the info or is it going into a db. (database)
what part are you having problems are.
click the submit button then it redirect you to the thank you page.
What languages are you using html and php?

nomad

ghostrider

question for you:
What actions do you have for your submit button.
Are you emailing the info or is it going into a db. (database)
what part are you having problems are.
click the submit button then it redirect you to the thank you page.
What languages are you using html and php?

nomad

I'm using html. I would like for it to say thank you when it is done. If I understand it correctly I need to save it as a link that the button points to right, so when it is clicked it will know to open that link?

ghostrider

We can not help without seeing the markup. It may not even be an HTML or CSS issue.

--Kevin

Understood will post it once I get off work.

nomad

I'm using html. I would like for it to say thank you when it is done. If I understand it correctly I need to save it as a link that the button points to right, so when it is clicked it will know to open that link?

You are some what right..
When you click the submit button it does two things.
1. send the info the client input ie email, db
2. then it redirect to a thank you page.

Might look like this on your php page

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// send email 

$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// redirect to success page 

if ($success){

  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=thankscontact.htm\">";

}

else{

  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";

}

nomad

ghostrider

Hey is what I have:

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 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<!--  Created with the CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007  -->

<!--           http://www.coffeecup.com/           -->

<!--        Brewed on 2/18/2008 4:33:53 PM         -->

<head>

  <title>Customer Information</title>

</head>

<body>

<form>

First name: 

<input type="text" name="firstname" size="20">

<br>

Last name: 

<input type="text" name="lastname" size="20">

<br>

Address:

<input type="text" address="address" size "50">

<br>

City:

<input type="text" city="city" size="20">

<br>

State:

<input type="text" state="state" size="2">

<br>

Zip Code:

<input type="text" zip code="zipcode" size="5">

<br>

<input type="submit" value="Submit Button">

</form>

</body>

</html>

eWish

Your basic problem is this that you are not sending the data anywhere. This is an example of what the first line should look like.

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<form name="Some Name" method="POST" action="some_server_side_script.pl">

You will need a server-side language to achieve what you want. Therefore, this is not an HTML or CSS issue.

HTML Forms and Inputs

--Kevin

ghostrider

Thanks for the help!

ghostrider

Hey thanks again eWish changing the first line of my code did it.

eWish

Good glad to hear it!

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