form Validation,redirect 1

[dashusa]

Hello
I have a form that sends an email once it has been filled in.My question is how do i redirect the form page back to the home page onnce the user has clicked on the submit button.
At the moment when the user hits the submit buttonnn it fires a form validation function...
Thnks in Advance
David

 

[cLFlaVA]

1) how are you validating the data (is your validation function written in javascript or server-side code?)
2) how are you sending the email?

after the email is sent, assuming you are using server-side code for this, you can use a typical redirect call to send the user back to the home page.



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[dashusa]

Hey Thanks for the fast reply..
I am validating the data by javascript

<input type="submit" onSubmit="return checkData()" value="Send Request"/>

so where do i put the redirect? i tried to put a response.redirect line at the bottom of the form validation code but it didnt work ..
Thanks again
David

 

[cLFlaVA]

again, how are you sending the email?

the javascript code for "redirecting" is:

window.location = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mypage.com/';[/URL]

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[dashusa]

Ahhh i was using jscript???
im using mailto:da@shsh.com
in the form action part...
Is this the best way to do it?

 

[cLFlaVA]

If you don't have access to server-side scripting engines (PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, CGI, etc.), then that is pretty much the only way to do what you want.

If you do have access to server-side scripting, check out the related forum.

If you don't, then I don't think you'll cleanly be able to send an email using the mailto: action and redirect back to the home page.



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