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I used this post to make a simple ‘contact us’ form. The form collects a few pieces of information (email, name and a message) from your visitor and emails it to you.
Instead of redirecting to a thank you page, I'd prefer it to just print the thank you (or error) text in the same HTML form page.
How can this be done? Where do I need to change to be able to keep the user in the same page and show the confirmation message ("Thank you")?
Edit: Found a much simpler way to do this - with ajax.

Answer 1

Here is my suggestion.
1- Change your file name contact-form.html to contact-form.php
2- Added include line and edit your form action in contact-form.php:
<h1>Contact us</h1>
<?php include './contact-form-handler.php'; ?>
<form method="POST" name="contactform" action="#">
3- Edit your contact-form-handler.php, disable header and added your thank you with personal message, you can also added some layout and decoration that is left to your fantasy.
//header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');
echo "Thank you " . $name . "<br />";
echo "We will contact you soon";
4- Last thing I will added condition to check if the form is submitted or not
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
if (empty... etc
}
5- (Optional) To re-fetch the posted values if failed I have added following to the form inputs (3 of them, each field got one with the respective field/variable name):
value="<?php if (isset($_POST['name'])) echo $name; ?>"
But in general When all this done, I will personally will go through the form and clean it up a little bit. Like if I am check the content in JavaScript it is not necessary to check if the fields are empty, so checking submission form is enough. I have not talk about form security yet against any kind of misuse, this just to make some thoughts when you come so far.
Complete code
Here is your final results, with extra things I done:
contact-form.php
<form method="POST" name="contactform" action="#">
<p>
<label for='name'>Your Name:</label> <br>
<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['name'])) echo $name; ?>">
</p>
<p>
<label for='email'>Email Address:</label> <br>
<input type="text" name="email" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['email'])) echo $email_address; ?>"> <br>
</p>
<p>
<label for='message'>Message:</label> <br>
<textarea name="message" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['message'])) echo $message; ?>"></textarea>
</p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><br>
</form>
contact-form-handler.php
<?php
$errors = '';
$myemail = 'yourname#website.com';//<-----Put Your email address here.
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
if (empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['message'])
)
{
$errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*#[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",
$email_address)
)
{
$errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
}
if (empty($errors))
{
$to = $myemail;
$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message. " .
" Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n Email: $email_address \n Message \n $message";
$headers = "From: $myemail\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to, $email_subject, $email_body, $headers);
//redirect to the 'thank you' page
//header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');
echo "Thank you " . $name . "<br />";
echo "We will contact you soon";
$name = "";
$email_address = "";
$message = "";
}
}
?>