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    <p>i'm stuck in between the two desired functions which I can't manage to occur simultaneously; I have an email submission form and I need it to redirect the user to a thank you page after hitting the "Submit" button. I'm providing you with 3 html alternatives and 1 php file.</p> <p>When the html is like this, the email gets sent but the redirection doesn't work.</p> <pre><code> &lt;form id="contact_form" action="mailer.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain"&gt; &lt;div class="message" style="display:none"&gt;&lt;div id="contact_alert" class="alert"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;label for="name"&gt;Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="full-width help" title="Insert your name" /&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="email" name="email" id="email" class="full-width help" title="Insert your email" /&gt; &lt;label for="message"&gt;Message:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;textarea name="message" id="message" cols="30" rows="7" class="full-width help" title="Insert your message"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>When i change the last line to this, it sends the email again but redirection still doesn't work:</p> <pre><code> &lt;form id="contact_form" action="mailer.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain"&gt; &lt;div class="message" style="display:none"&gt;&lt;div id="contact_alert" class="alert"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;label for="name"&gt;Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="full-width help" title="Insert your name" /&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="email" name="email" id="email" class="full-width help" title="Insert your email" /&gt; &lt;label for="message"&gt;Message:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;textarea name="message" id="message" cols="30" rows="7" class="full-width help" title="Insert your message"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;a href="thank-you"&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>And finally when I change the last line to this, the redirection works but no email gets sent.</p> <pre><code> &lt;form id="contact_form" action="mailer.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain"&gt; &lt;div class="message" style="display:none"&gt;&lt;div id="contact_alert" class="alert"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;label for="name"&gt;Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="full-width help" title="Insert your name" /&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="email" name="email" id="email" class="full-width help" title="Insert your email" /&gt; &lt;label for="message"&gt;Message:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;textarea name="message" id="message" cols="30" rows="7" class="full-width help" title="Insert your message"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;a href="thank-you"&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Submit" class="button" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is the php file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $to = "info@domain.com"; $subject = "Hi Nick, this is ".$_POST['name']; $name_field = $_POST['name']; $email_field = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; $headers = 'From: '.$_POST['email'].'' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: '.$_POST['email'].'' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); $body = $message; mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers ); header('Location: http://www.domain.com/thank-you') ; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
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    1. COI really don't know what you're trying to accomplish by wrapping that `<a></a>` around your button, but that is not a thing that you can do in HTML and expect something sane to happen. The first iteration of your form should work fine. Tell us the specific way in which it "doesn't work". Include error messages, because I'm guessing there are some.
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    2. CO@remy is that the end of the PHP script? The PHP docs seem to recommend that you `exit;` after calling `header()` to ensure that no further script is executed.
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    3. CO@Sammitch wrapping the <a></a> around my button opens the thank-you page but only when input type="button". so in the 1st iteration the email gets sent but no redirection takes place. no error messages appear on my screen, just nothing seems to happen besides me receiving the email.
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