I have an email form, that i'm validating a date, its a booking form. What im doing is when the start date is bigger than the end date it gives me a message saying to fix the date and redirect to the page. I have 2 pages, the page of the booking form, and when i click to submit it goes to the contact_engine page to validate and send the email:
here is how i put it:
if ($datebegin >= $dateend){
echo '<script>alert("Fix the Date");</script>';
exit;
The problem is when it does the exit it stays in the functions page, and i want it to exit but go to the previous page. Can someone give me some help? I tried instead using exit. I try to use it with header("Refresh: 1; url=http:/website.com/booking.php"); but somehow this takes me to the to the sent_page_booking page.
What about doing a timed redirect, so that the user gets the error message shown:
header("refresh:5;url=back-to-booking-form.php");
echo 'Form Error. Fix the date. Redirecting to the booking form in about 5 secs.';
I'd suggest an alternative approach: the correct way to handle form submission with validation is to use the Post-Redirect-Get technique:
To illustrate:
+--------+ POST +--------+ Yes +----------+ GET +--------------+
| Submit | -------> | Valid? | -------> | Redirect | ------> | Confirmation |
+--------+ +--------+ +----------+ +--------------+
^ |
| | No
+-------------------+
Use this:
header("Location: phppage.php");
and do not use echo before this code. Put this code in starting and call it with button event.
Use this Below link to exact answer
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13539752/redirect-function
function redirect_url($path)
{
header("location:".$path);
exit;
}