Question

Ok I have googled for hours and found nothing that works. I need help desperately

I have got a form with the following elements in it.

<form action="sendmail.php" method="post" name="enquiry">
    <table> 
        <tr>
            <td>Name:-</td> 
            <td><input type="text" name="name" /></td>
        </tr> 
        <tr>
            <td>Company:-</td>
            <td> <input type="text" name="company" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>E-Mail:-</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="email" /></td> 
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Contact:-</td>
           <td> <input type="text" name="contact" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Requirement:-</td>
            <td><textarea name="msg"></textarea></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <input type="submit" value="submit" onclick="return validation(this.form);">
    <input type="reset" value="Reset" />
</form>

and the php has a line like this:

<?php
if(mail($to, $subject,$message)) {
   echo "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>alert('Your Enquiry was sent successfully we  will get back to you shortly');
              window.location.href='javascript:history.go(-1)';
              document.enquiry.reset();
         </SCRIPT>";
}
?> 

Then there’s an “else” with the same code but a different message.

The problem is when it redirects back to the form page it still has the data in the fields. What I prefer is a clean form with no data filled in when the user returns to the page.

Please note I am a newbie to javascript so try suggesting a fix that would be easy to comprehend.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

That’s because you’re going back in the history – browsers remember forms when you go back/forward.

What you are doing isn’t a “normal” user experience – I would suggest you print out a nice looking page saying thanks in the “sendmail.php” file and then let the user navigate to wherever they want to on your site.