Question

This is a simple Captcha form which is working well and prints the requested result after I press ‘submit’.

<?php 
session_start(); 
$msgCaptcha = "";
?>

<?php
   if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
      $secCode = isset($_POST['secCode']) ? strtolower($_POST['secCode']) : "";
      if ($secCode == $_SESSION['securityCode']) {
         $msgCaptcha = "valid code";
         $result = true;
      }
      else {
         $msgCaptcha = "wrong security code";
         $result = false;
      }
   }
?>      

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
name:<input name="myname" type="text"><br />
Security code: <input class="text" name="secCode" type="text">
                <img src="securityCode.php" /><br />
                <?php echo $msgCaptcha ?>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

. i.e.

If my input is the same as like in the picture the printing is “valid security code”
and if the input is not the same, the printing is “wrong security code”.

When I change in the form the code to action="mailer.php" this file is opened but ignore of any input in the Captcha validation.

I need mailer.php to be open after Captcha validation.

I have tried onsubmit and some other options, but none of them works as a solution for the above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Use header()

if ($secCode == $_SESSION['securityCode']) {
     $msgCaptcha = "valid code";
     header("Location: http://www.website.com/ ... /mailer.php");
  }