I have contact form on a HTML page called contact.html

Once someone has filled out their details, typed their message & clicked on 'Send' it goes to a PHP file 'contact/contactform.php'

If the message is sent successfully the contactform.php will then redirect to thanks.html (which basically says 'Thanks, your message has been sent etc.')
Or if the message wasn't sent successfully the contactform.php will redirect to error.html (Sorry, there was an error. Your message hasn't been sent etc.')

What I'd like to is instead of contactform.php redirecting to thanks.html or error.html I'd like to call some JavaScript functions back in the contact.html page

<script type="text/javascript">
function doThanks() {
Effect.Appear('send',{duration:1.0}), Effect.SlideDown('send',{duration:1.0});
return false;
}
</script>

if the message is sent successfully.

<script type="text/javascript">
function doError() {
Effect.Appear('send',{duration:1.0}), Effect.SlideDown('send',{duration:1.0});
return false;
}
</script>

If the message isn't sent successfully.



Here is the code in the PHP file that redirects to the thanks.html or error.html pages

// redirect to success page
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=thanks.html\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.html\">";
}

Is this possible, & if so how?

You would make an AJAX-style XMLHTTPRequest call to the php file, the php file would return a fail/success code to the script, then you would process it. THis is pretty much what you are looking for right: http://www.dustindiaz.com/ajax-contact-form/
He has the code free on his site, so d/l it and see if it would work for you.

Thanks, I took a look at it but it looks a little beyond me to figure out
I guess there isn't a simpler way to call the JavaScript funtion on 1 page from another page?

You can see the effect that would happen here http://www.iconaholic.com/contact2.html

To see the effect clicking on 'Test - Thanks message' (bottom of the page) shows you what would happen if you filled out the form, clicked on Send & the message was sent successfully. Clicking on 'Test - Error message' shows you what would happen if you filled out the form, clicked on Send & the message wasn't sent successfully.

If it was simpler I could leave the PHP file to redirect to the thanks.html page, & then call the JavaScript function on the contact.html page from there (rather than calling the JavaScript function from the PHP page).

If you get the javascript, then I will include it into your script...Otherwise no time atm, sorry.