Question

I’ve a simple order-form on my website. If I click the submit-button the the form will send the data to my database. This works. But it does not show the success.php – it only shows the start.php again. So there must be a mistake. On my previous hoster it worked. But now I have a new one.

Here’s my php-script (start.php):

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pw") or die ("No connection to db possible"); 
mysql_select_db("db", $con) or die ("No connection to db possible");
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

if (isset($_POST['button']))
{
foreach ($_POST AS $key => $postvar)
    $_POST[$key] = stripslashes($postvar);

$_POST['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']);
$_POST['strasse'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['strasse']);
$_POST['plz'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['plz']);
$_POST['ort'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['ort']);
$_POST['mail'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['mail']);
$_POST['anzahl'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['anzahl']);



$sql = "INSERT INTO `bestellungen` (`name`,`strasse`,`plz`,`ort`,`mail`,`anzahl`,`datetime`)
                VALUES ('".$_POST['name']."', '".$_POST['strasse']."', '".$_POST['plz']."', '".$_POST['ort']."', '".$_POST['mail']."', '".$_POST['anzahl']."', '".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."');";

$result = mysql_query($sql,$con);
if (!$result) echo mysql_error();
mysql_close($con);

?> 

<?php Header("Location: success.php");
exit();
?>

<?php

} else { ?>

Answer 1

That won’t work because header('Location: success.php') needs to happen before you output anything to the browser. You seem to have gaps before that is called.

$result = mysql_query($sql,$con);
if (!$result) echo mysql_error();
mysql_close($con);

// Now its time for the header!
header("Location: success.php");
exit();