Basic PHP mail function help.

[Chris1989]

Hi peeps, im a newb to PHP and canot understand why my script is not working properly.

my code is

<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['email'])){
	$to = "chris{at]absoluteurl*";
	$subject = "Contact Form Enquiry";
	$message = $_REQUEST["message"];
	$from = $_REQUEST["email"];
	mail($to,$subject,$message,$from);
	header('Location: absoluteurl*');}
else{
header('Location:  absoluteurl*');}
?>

* wont let me post links
*wont let me post links

Now the email sends fine but its the bit where i ask if the email box is not filled in then it should go to the error page but it always forwards to the "thanks.php" page.

Any help is appeiated.

the form code is as below;

<form name="contactform" method="post" action="contactscript.php">
	    <fieldset id="contactfield">
	      <legend id="contactleg">Contact Form</legend>
	      Name: <input class="contactform" type="text" size="30" name="name" value="name"/><br /><br />
	      Email Address: <input class="contactform" type="text" size="30" name="email" value="email"/><br /><br />
	      Message: <br /><textarea rows="10" cols="30" name="message" value="message">Type your message here</textarea><br />
	      <input type="submit" value="Send Message" name="submit" />
	    </fieldset>
	  </form>

[elija]

header does a 301 redirect which means it happens in the browser. The script will carry on running on the server.

So, you need to stop the script after a redirect.

header('Location:  absoluteurl*');
exit();

Also learn to validate user input - never trust the buggers!