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infocentre

Hello! i am a complete novice with PHP.. a lot of cut and pasting goes down!

I can sort out a contact form, but they all refresh the entire screen when the 'contact.php' file is run on the submit button.

What i want is just the form area to refresh as 'message sent'. is this possible?

The reason i ask is because i am putting together a band site, on which there will be a 'subscribe to newsletter' section which simply collects their email address and then forwards to my email address to be storred.. this is the simplest way i could think of, but if you have other ideas, please throw them out there!

Thanks chaps
Alex

TheDoc

You'll want to put something like this in:

$result = \"../contact-success.php\";
$error = \"../contact-error.php\";

	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
		{
		header(\"Location: \" . $result);
		}
	else
		{
		header(\"Location: \" . $error);
		}
	}

davesgonebananas

You want to use the jQuery Form plugin http://malsup.com/jquery/form/#getting-started

Basically you add a script to your page as follows:

    <script type=\"text/javascript\"> 
        // wait for the DOM to be loaded 
        $(document).ready(function() { 
            // bind 'myForm' and provide a simple callback function 
            	$('#myform').ajaxForm({
			target: '#mydiv',
		});
        }); 
    </script>

Where #myform is the id of your form and #mydiv is the id of the div you want to contain the message.

infocentre

very useful! thanks guys

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