Header location after sending email

Question

I'm trying redirect users to a thank you page after submitting a form but my header location doesn't seem to work (local or online). Nothing happens when clicking the submit button (the email is sent though).

My php looks like this :

<?php

$val= $_POST['val'];
$toemail='mail@mail.com';
$name = $val['name'];
$societe = $val['societe'];
$email = $val['email'];
$phone = $val['phone'];
$msg = $val['msg'];

$subject = 'Contact';

$headers = "From: $email \r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";

$message = "<b>Nom : </b>".$name."<br>";
$message .='<b>Societe : </b>'.$societe."<br>";
$message .='<b>Email : </b>'.$email."<br>";
$message .='<b>Telephone : </b>'.$phone."<br>";
$message .='<b>Message : </b>'.$msg;

mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers);

header("Location: http://example.com/thankyou.html");

?>

What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help.

Edit: Thanks for your help. If I turn error reporting I get: Warning : Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path/email.php:12)

Are there any error's on the page? Or do you get an empty ( white ) page? — Mathlight, Jul 02 '14 at 12:10
No error nor blank page, nothing happens. I tried removing the gaps and checked if there were blank spaces, still nothing. — onerkript, Jul 02 '14 at 12:17
Did you indeed turn the error reporting on? And is the above your whole php file? — Mathlight, Jul 02 '14 at 12:25
turn on error report....error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); — Ezhil, Jul 02 '14 at 12:28
Bingo : Warning : Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path/email.php:12) — onerkript, Jul 02 '14 at 12:36

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '14 at 20:55

As others have mentioned, the script is sending output before attempting to send the header. The simplest way to fix it is probably to buffer the output of email() and then send the header, as follows:

ob_start();
mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers);
ob_end_clean();

header("Location: http://example.com/thankyou.html");

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 13:45

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Problem is, you are sending output before redirect.

Either use output buffering or do it on a new page.

http://ee1.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php

answered Jul 02 '14 at 13:45

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 11 '14 at 10:58

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very simple use following method ob_start(); exit(header("Location: http://example.com/thankyou.html")); Functions that send/modify HTTP headers must be invoked before any output is made. Otherwise the call fails.

answered Aug 11 '14 at 10:58

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score -4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 12:13

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Using header() you can redirect only to a page within the same site.

you can try using

header("Location: /thankyou.html");

Hope it helps.

answered Jul 02 '14 at 12:13

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you are wrong , we can redirect outside the site using heade() – Karthick Kumar Jul 02 '14 at 12:15
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[PHP says](http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php) `HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to » Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs` So relative URL's isn't always necessary... – Mathlight Jul 02 '14 at 12:16
Thank you, but the problem persists. – onerkript Jul 02 '14 at 12:18
Did you try turning on errors ? This may help. – Virus Jul 02 '14 at 12:20

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