"Return to Home Page" button on Success.htm

[zenprofit]

Russell:

Thanks to your patience I have the formmail.php system working perfectly.

I now want to insert a "Return to Home Page" button at the bottom of the page which will:

1) close the window and

2) return the user to the Home page.

I placed this code after the table in success.htm:

<form action="" method="post" name="home" id="home">
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></a>
</form>

When I click the button I receive the standard:

An error occurred while processing the form.
Please contact us directly since this form is not working.
We apologize for any inconvenience this error may have caused.

I am sure the issue is due to success.htm being driven through formmail.php, but I don't know how to fix it.

I started out with this code:

<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--
/*var NS = (navigator.appName == "Netscape");*/
var VERSION = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
if (VERSION > 3) {
document.write('<input type=button value="Click to print this Page" name="Print" onClick="printit()">');

document.write('<input type=button value="Return to Home Page" name="Close" onClick="javascript:self.close()">');
}
// -->
</script>

but this closes down the browser completely when the button is clicked.

Any thoughts?

[russellr]

Hi,

The problem is the action of the form you're putting in success.htm - it's empty, so it simply submits to the current URL (which will be formmail.php if success.htm is good_template).

In fact, you don't want a form at all.

You simply want a hyperlink back to your home page:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php">Return to home page</a>

If you want it to look like a button instead of a link, you can use an image instead. If you want it to act like a button, you can do that too (with a button tag) but it will require JavaScript to work.

[zenprofit]

Russell:

See, I prove I am a newbie every time.

Thanks.