Displaying submitted data from database - php

Question

What I want to do is when the user clicks submit, the data gets entered to the database and it will redirect me to like a Thank you page showing what the user has submitted.
code snippet: html code & php code:
<form action="ThankYouReport.html" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div>
<div class="container">
<label><input
type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="Beans">Beans</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="Apple" >
Apple</label>
</div>
</form>
<?php
require('config.php');
if(isset($_POST['sub']))
{
$checkbox1=$_POST['check'];
$chk="";
foreach($checkbox1 as $chk1)
{
$chk .= $chk1.",";
}
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `list` (`checked1`) VALUES ( ','$chk')") or
die(mysql_error());
}
?>
I looked around and saw that you had to change the form action, I did that but for some reason my data won't get entered in my database.
How would I go about displaying the data to another page.
I know there been many post on this site but none of them help me.

Answer 1

Try this and see the comments within:
<?php
session_start(); // always do this at the very top of your script
require('config.php');
if (isset($_POST['sub'])) {
$chk = implode(',',$_POST['check']); // shorter than using foreach
$sql = "INSERT INTO `list` (`checked1`) VALUES ('{$chk}')"; // just a way of storing a query to a variable
if(mysql_query($sql)) {
$_SESSION['success_msg'] = 'Successfully added items '.$chk; // store a message or whatever into a session variable
// FYI if you wrap a string with single quotes, you cannot use a variable within like in above query string, but have to be concatenated using a dot (.)
header('Location: http://www.example.com/ThankYouReport.html'); // redirect on success
} else {
die('Could not insert query'); // or print this message
}
}
?>
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"><!-- remove action attribute or use name of script this is in. -->
<div class="container">
<label><input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="Beans"> Beans</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="Apple"> Apple</label>
</div>
</form>
EDIT (based on the comment)
If you want to transfer data from one script to another, especially for something simple as a thank you page or similar you can use php sessions. You need to turn your thank you page into a PHP script like so:
thanks.php
<?php
session_start();
?>
<div>
<?php echo $_SESSION['success_msg'];?>
</div>