I have a web page:
http://sifaka888.x10hosting.com/reco...tact_page.html

where I collect information from a form, pass it to a php script (separate file) which sends it to my email. It works.
Now how do I get over the blank screen while informing the visitor their e-mail was sent?
I'm tempted to do it by creating a nice html page filled with php variables. How do you do that? Any other ideas?
I'm reluctant to do it by submitting the form data to a php script in the same page, becuase I thinks it's illegal html.
In case you can use it, here is the script "recov_mail_send.php" that sends the form contents to my e-mail:

PHP Code:

<?php
$username="root";
$password="";
$host="localhost";
$first=$_POST['first'];
$last=$_POST['last'];
$phone=$_POST['phone'];
$mobile=$_POST['mobile'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$message=$_POST['message'];
 
//replace dot with double one for smtp servers
$text = str_replace("\n.", "\n..", $text);
// Use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
$message = wordwrap($message,70);
// set to variable
$to = 'mattwilliams59@yahoo.com' . ', ';
$to .= 'mattwilliams59@aol.com';
$space = " ";
// set subject variable
$subject = 'Recovery website e-mail';
//set "from" header
$headers = "From: $email";
// build $msg variable (message)
$msg = $message;
$msg .= "Sender of e-mail: ";
$msg .= $first;
$msg .= $space;
$msg .= $last;
// Send email
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers);
?>

Thanks,
Matt W

redirect them to a complete page?

PHP Code:

header('Location: http://www.page/thanks.page'); 


or just put echo statements at the start of your script....

PHP Code:

echo("Emailing being sent...");

// and at the end of the script...
echo("...email sent."); 


I want them to get a screen or a pane where they see a message like this:

Your message: $php_variable, $php-variable.....
Has been sent.

Click here to go back to some page. Click here to go back to another page.

......the above page would be formatted to look like the rest of the pages in my site, and would include the visitor's message reiterated through php combined with html? How do I do that? The whole idea is to acknowledge that I have received their form, and to let them go back to somewhere they might want to go after they've filled out the form.

Matt

ok matt so add this to the bottom of your php code ...

PHP Code:

include 'sent.php'; 


and design your sent.php page to look as you like in HTML and where you want the two $php_variables to display just use the following in the HTML code..

PHP Code:

<? print $phpvariable;?>

Crude but gets your job done fast!

well I got talkupation for this thread, does that mean you managed to get it working matt? --- I hope so