HELP !cant seem to get PHP to go to another URL

OK, I have a main page that has two fields.
1 is a email field, another is a name field.
Below that are radio buttons.

What I want, but does not work ----

when you fill out the two fields with your email and name
you also check a radio button of your choice. The radio button that is selected is suppose to send you to another web page that the radio button is suppose to route to.
when you hit the submit button, it calls my web.php3 page to fill my Mysql table with the name and email but also I want to send the person to a another web site based on with radio button the user selected.

The result I get, but do not like is.

1. it writes to my Mysql table (good)
2. it loads my web.php3 page up on the browser (bad)
3. loads up the web page the person selected from the radio
button into a second browser (bad)

What I want is.
1. write to my tables
2. do not load the web.php3 page up
3. only loads the web page the user selected but in the same browser, not open of a new browser.

I'm Mixing Java sript with PHP. Using PHP to write to the database, and java script to do everything else.

can anyone help. thanks

Just use the nifty header() function in PHP. eg:

header ("Location: <A HREF="http://www.php.net");" TARGET=_blank>http://www.php.net");</A>

Look for information about this function at http://www.php.net/manual/function.header.php

Place this code BEFORE your html code, or the header command will not work.

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PHP, Perl, SQL Programming at http://www.mentalobjects.com

in web.php3 page - no html - just:

<?php
your connect to database routines then
?>

<script>window.location.href="<?php echo $varfromfrom;?>.php3"</script>

Simon

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Simon Wheeler
FirePages -DHTML/PHP/MySQL

you can try the following.just remove the java script from your script.becoz that may create some trouble in old versions of browsers(i mean redirect script).

call the web.php3 from the html form.

here is an example,

test.htm

<form method="post" action="web.php3">
Name : <input type="text" name="fullname">
Email : <input type="text" name="email_address">

URLS :
<input type="radio" name="radio" value="http://shiju.dreamcenter.net" checked>

<input type="radio" name="radio" value="http://www.yahoo.com">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

just use the following script for web.php3.don't put any html code before header() function.

web.php3

<?php

if($submit){

$userip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");

$con=mysql_connect (localhost, xxxxxx, xxxxxxx);

mysql_select_db (register1,$con);

mysql_query ("INSERT INTO email_info (fullname, email_address, userip)
VALUES ('$fullname', '$email_address', '$userip')
",$con);


header ("Location: $radio");

}else{

echo "Error !! contact administrator for detailsn";
exit;
}

?>

don't use "target=_blank" in html form(ie ,<form action="" method="" target="_blank"> )

that is why it is opening the page in another window.


hope this may help you to solve your problem...


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SR -
shiju.dreamcenter.net

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..."



[This message has been edited by Shiju Rajan (edited May 25, 2000).]

Don't use any HTML in your web.php3 at all.

Insert your info into MySQL, set your cookies or whatever. Then use a redirect to the page they selected with header("Location: whateverpage.php3");

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Good luck,
Bas

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