HTML Redirect To Original Page.

Question

I have a one page site that has PHP code in it. Once the user presses 'Send', this sends the information to my email, then displays a messagebox saying that the action was a success to the user - great.

After the messagebox is closed, the website stays at website.com/report.php. Is there a way to redirect it back to the original page.

Also, any way to change the icon in the messagebox that pops up? Here is the code that I have: <script language="JavaScript">alert("Your request has been sent. I will contact you soon!");</script>

Thanks.

Answer 1

Look into window.open and window.location

Place it after your alert()

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptredirect.php

Also, to answer your messagebox icon question: No, it is browser-dependent and not modifiable.

If you want to do that, your are going to need to fake it with html/css and javascript.

Answer 2

Use the php header command

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); 
exit;
?>

Answer 3

Towards the end of your php, use this:

header('location: home.php');

This will cause the browser to load the original page.

I don't believe that the standard alert box can be altered, aside from the message. You can't change the title or the buttons, either.

Frank

Answer 4

To do a redirect in PHP, use header("Location: page.php"); for this. Before and after this your code shouldn't be sending any other output to the response. Eventually use exit(); to terminate the script afterwards.

If you need the page which was requested right before this page, then best what you can do is to include its URL as request parameter of the link to report.php and use it as redirect destination. E.g.

<a href="report.php?referrer=<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>">report</a>

and in the report.php pass it as hidden input field:

<input type="hidden" name="referrer" value="<?php echo getParam("referrer"); ?>">

And after submitting the report do:

header("Location: " . getParam("referrer") . ")"; // getParam() returns sanitized GET parameter.

An alternative is to use the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] header (yes, including the typo) for this, but this is just not that reliable as it may be disabled or spoofed by the client.

Answer 5

    <script language="JavaScript">
alert("Your request has been sent. I will contact you soon!");
window.location.assign("http://website.com");
</script>

If you want to change the icon in alert box or make it look a little fancy, you could try YUI dialog

Answer 6

I believe a more elegant solution is to simply present the user with a confirmation page (instead of an alert box), and place a link to the previous page there.

That would at lease work for all users.

For those users with javascript a little Ajax (jQuery) could submit the form for you, and display the confirmation nessage. All without leaving the page the user is on (negating the need for any fancy redirects).

Answer 7

Use this code to display the alert:

function displayAlert(message, redirect) {
    alert(message);
    window.location.href = redirect;
}

Then, you can use code like:

displayAlert("This is the message", "http://redirect.the/user/here");