Success Page

[grundig]

I have 2 forms on my site Contact_Us.php and Register.php. I have a success.php page that when The user fills out the contact form displays the message Thank you $first_name for contacting us. Can I get the same success page to display Thank you $first_name for registering when the user fills out the registration.php form

is the code something like

}
else
{

Any help apreciated

[AndrewGSW]

Yes you can, and using else as you proposed.

Depending on your current code(?) you could either:

Use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] (sic.) to discover which page requested this page. This method is not ideal, and the referrer-url needs to be parsed - that is, split up to extract the host and page details;

More simply, include a hidden form-field that contains the value of either 'contact' or 'register', or append one of these words as part of a querystring. This can be read by the success page:

PHP Code:

if ($_GET['referee'] && !empty($_GET['referee'])) {
    $referee = $_GET['referee'];
    if ($referee == 'contact') {
        echo "Well done!";
    } else if ($referee == 'register') {
        echo "Yo there!";
    }
} 


However, I would suggest that you continue to keep them as separate pages as you are likely to need to do different things according to whether the page is in response to a contact or registration, and to perhaps process data in different ways, or provide quite different page-content. Even if you are not doing this now, you are likely to do so at some point. Besides, it's not difficult to maintain two separate success pages. Not a big deal, but I thought it worth mentioning. YPYM

[grundig]

Thank's very much Andrew. I have to admit I was thinking it may just be easier to use more than one success page. As you say they don't take a lot of maintaining and its easier to describe what you want from each form that way.

Thanks for your help anyway, at least I now know that it can be done and most importantly I was thinking along the right lines.