I'm not seeing the forest through the trees here,
I have a self submitting contact form with reCaptcha. Then, if it validates, it has an "include" to a php page to send the data, and if that page goes well I "include" a confirmation page that uses JavaScript "onLoad" to "window.open" to the confirmation page.
I'm not sure that the variables from the contact page will be successfully carried all the way to the confirmation page, and I can't tell, because the last file in the chain isn't being loaded for some reason when I run the whole chain on my local machine. (It does show up when I call it from it's closest relative, but without its variable data filled in.) I tried using a header() --the very first thing on the page-- but it wasn't allowed because the page previously did something to throw it.
What's my direction?

Why not just use php for the confirmation part?

The code can be included right after the send portion and would not execute unless you reached that point in the script. No variable carry forward would be required doing it this way.

Things work great "including" the comfirm page on the form page, and when I try to do a

PHP Code:

print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=mail_report.php\">"; 


the variables don't carry over, and when I try doing a

PHP Code:

header("Location: mail_report.php"); 


it throws a error message such as this:

"Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\local_sites\three_column_fixed_tes t\loop_practice.php:7)"

When mail_report.php is called by the "onLoad" function of mail_confirmation.php, it shows up great, but when the chain is started by the "include 'mail_confirmation.php';" in the contact form page, the new window at the end of the chaion never materializes. Could that JavaScript window be made to function with variable carryover, you think?

I really want to project the confirmation page in another page, tab, window or pane, other than the contact form page. Is that not usually done? What are your ideas? I've been spending a lot of effort on this. Thanks for you patience.

matt