Hide Thank You Page URL

[swicki]

Hi,

thank you for this great and easy to install script.

I've got one question:

Is it possible to hide the redirecting url on my webform, because I want to make it the download page for my product. Could I code the url e.g. directly into the formmailer instead of the webform? Or is there an alternative?

Thank you for your help and keep on with the good work!

Sebastian

[russellr]

Hi,

One way is to derive the "good_url" field using "derive_fields". See the HOW TO guide for how to do this.

This provides a simple encoding that any determined person could decode.

The other way is to write a front-end PHP script that your HTML form calls instead of formmail.php. That script then includes formmail.php to do the rest of the work.

It would look like this:

$_POST["good_url"] = "http://your-download-url";
require("formmail.php"); 

[swicki]

Hi Russell,

thank you! Is that the whole script? Does that mean I do only have to write an new script with these lines and run it instead of formmail? I am really novice to php and I loved the simplicity of installing your script. :-)

[russellr]

Hi,

Yes, that's the whole script (except I left out the PHP tags). Here it is with comments:

<?php
$_POST["good_url"] = "http://your-download-url";  // force a particular URL for a successful submission and put it in the POST data.  This hides the URL form the contents of the HTML form sent to the browser.
require("formmail.php");   // call FormMail to do all its usual work
?>

Start by getting your form working without using the above. Set "good_url" in your HTML form. Test until you're happy that it's working perfectly.

Then, when it's working correctly, do this:

1. Write the above script. Call it, say, "download.php". Put the right URL in the place shown.
2. Remove "good_url" from your HTML form.
3. Change the "action" attribute of the FORM tag in the HTML form to be "download.php" (with path etc at the front).
4. Test!

[swicki]

It works!!

Thank you so much. :-)

I hope other users will find this information useful as well.
BTW: As intended, it is not possible to access the target url directly now. Perfect.