Dave. Hi again.
Ok I think if I understand correctly you want the user to be returned to the page which they were visiting before they clicked on the Recommend link right?
Well in php you there are variables which will give you the page the user came from. This is called HTTP_REFERER. Now as the documentation on the php site says, this is not always set by the browser. This however is actually probably less than 1 percent of the browsers and therefore is actually better to use than a javascript (because more people surf without javascript than with a hacked browser).
Ok so how to use this? It can be used as follows:
echo( $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER'] );
This would print the referer url to the screen just like any other php variable.
Now in your case you are going to have 3 pages.
Page 1 - Page where user clicks "Recommend"
Page 2 - Where user enters info.
Page 3 - Page where user's email is sent via mail() and confirmation printed
Well page 1 is easy. Its just a page with a "Recomend" link to page 2.
At page 2 users should put in their details. However you should add a hidden field to the form using this code:
<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?php echo("$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER']"); ?>">
Basically this will make php insert the refering url into a hidden form which will be unknowingly submitted to page 3 by the user.
Page 3 will send the email and should look as follows (assuming your code above is correct):
<?php
if ($to_email && $message && $subject) {
$to = "\"$to_name\" <$to_email>";
$from = "\"$from_name\" <$from_email>";
$to = str_replace("\'", "'", $to);
$from = str_replace("\'", "'", $from);
$subject = str_replace("\'", "'", $subject);
$message = str_replace("\'", "'", $message);
$mailed = @mail($to, $subject, $message, "Wrom: HJEXXIMQZUIVOTQNQEMSFDULHPQQWO
if($mailed) {
echo("Thank you for your recommendation.<br><br>Mail message sent : \nTo : $to<br>From : $from<br>Subject : $subject<br>Message : $message");
exit;
} else {
echo("We're sorry but your recommendation was not able to be sent.<br><br>");
}
} else {
echo("You did not enter all the required fields. Please go back.")
}
echo('<a href="' . $referer . '">Continue Shopping</a>');
?>
And that should do it I think.
-dk
