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    copied!<p>I am trying to get a page to redirect after I click the button and after the database updates but it doesnt seem to work.</p> <p>I have a form that completes in itself, to cut down on the number of pages used (e.g no, thanks content has been edited" page) but after the content has been edited i wish to redirect back home.</p> <p>form and database update:</p> <pre><code> &lt;div id = "errormsg"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php echo "&lt;table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"7\" style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:11px\"&gt;"; echo "&lt;tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;/tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;&lt;form name=\"confhome\" method=\"post\" action=\"\" onsubmit=\"return valText()\"&gt;&lt;textarea name=\"tag\" cols=\"20\" rows=\"3\" id=\"tag\"&gt;$row[tagbrief]&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type=\"submit\" value=\"Edit\"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"; $tagbrief = $_POST['tag']; mysql_query("UPDATE quackedup SET tagbrief='$tagbrief' WHERE id='1'"); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>JS validation for ref</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; function valText(){ var text = document.getElementById('tag'); var div = document.getElementById('errormsg'); var lets = /^[0-9a-zA-Z\s\-\'(\)\&amp;\,\:\.\!\?]+$/; if((text.value == '') || (text.value == ' ')){ div.innerHTML="&lt;b&gt;Please enter your changes&lt;/b&gt;"; text.focus(); return false;} else if(text.value.match(lets)){ div.innerHTML="&lt;b&gt;Content updated&lt;/b&gt;"; return true;} else { return false;} } </code></pre> <p></p> <p>Any help appreciated, thanks.</p>
 

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