Thread: Trouble with multiple thankyou pages

I read previous thread regarding this problem but I don't begin to understand what was suggested:
"Just publish your thank you pages with WHATEVER name you like, BUT make sure that the "action" of the form is exactly the same as the thank you page. In example, in a Order form, you can set the form action to be "confirm.php" and then save the relevant processing page as "confirm" and set it to have .php extension when published."
This sounds good but I haven't a clue as to how to accomplish this. Can someone explain this to someone, in simple language, who is not very computer literate.

I don't understand how to set form action and I don't know what is meant by relevant processing page.

Thank-You David Thornton http://www.webworldaffiliates.com

Originally Posted by Davethorn

I read previous thread regarding this problem but I don't begin to understand what was suggested:
"Just publish your thank you pages with WHATEVER name you like, BUT make sure that the "action" of the form is exactly the same as the thank you page. In example, in a Order form, you can set the form action to be "confirm.php" and then save the relevant processing page as "confirm" and set it to have .php extension when published."
This sounds good but I haven't a clue as to how to accomplish this. Can someone explain this to someone, in simple language, who is not very computer literate.

I don't understand how to set form action and I don't know what is meant by relevant processing page.

Thank-You David Thornton http://www.webworldaffiliates.com

Ok, firstly, please stick to the same thread on the same subject, this is much easier to solve your issus this way.

On the page that you place your form on... right click on the form and go to the properties of that form. There is a field that says 'action' in there you put the pagename.php

This tells the form to go to this page (this is the relevant processing page) when the user hits the submit button.

Tried this but still when I hit submit it takes me to the original thank-you page and no the one that I need to go to.If you would like to see for yourself go to http://www.webworldaffiliates. Click on Free Stuff. Click on Link for Profit Funnel. This Takes you to Form requesting name and email address. When You press Sumit it takes you to The Thank-you Page from Previous ContactUs Form and not to the one associated with the Current Form. Could someone please tell me where I am doing something wrong. as I have two more forms with thank you pages to set up. Thanks much, David http://www.webworldaffiliates.com

Filling in the profit funnel form will atke your clients to a page called action.php

If you want them to go to a different page then on that form page go into the form properties take out the words 'action.php' and replace it with

'yourotherpage'.php

'yourotherpage' obviously being the name of the page you want them to go to

I done exactly what you said, changed action.php to ThankYou1.php (which is the Thank you Page that I want to be sent to) I published this and still get the same results ie I am sent to Thank You (which is from another form on my site. I'm stuck. David Thornton http://www.webworldaffiliates.com.

No, you haven't changed it. It is till showing as action.php

If you want to you can email me the page. The one with the form on. My email address is on my first site lsited below

NO CAPS! ThankYou1.php - should be - thankyou1.php

However, I've watched the tutorial three times and when she saves the Thank You page. . .it is still "untitled" . . .she never actually mentions that the page should be "action.php". . .this confused me.

So the case is this. ..the form can be named anything as long as the thank you page has the same name (remember lowercase and php extension). . .is that correct? If so. . .I think that needs to be mentioned in the tutorial. . .a keypoint I would say because many will want more than one contact form and will need to know how to deliniate the thank you pages.

Not the form, the "action" of the form MUST have the same name as the thank you page that has the script in it.

If the action of the form is "thankyou1.php" the thankyou page for this form MUST also be "thankyou1" and before you publish it set its properties so that when it gets published it has the extension "php" (in page properties)

Originally Posted by navaldesign

Not the form, the "action" of the form MUST have the same name as the thank you page that has the script in it.

If the action of the form is "thankyou1.php" the thankyou page for this form MUST also be "thankyou1" and before you publish it set its properties so that when it gets published it has the extension "php" (in page properties)

What you said! That's what I meant. . .and it straightened me out. . .it works great. . .Thanks!. . .(might suggest to include a mention of this in the tutorial. ..just a thought)

This is what i DID wrote in the tutorial:

Important: The form action, as we have seen, is set to be "action.php". This is NOT a coincidence. the form action NEEDS to be the same as the thank you page filename. So the thank you page is saved as "action" and when published it is published as "action.php". The form action must be set to be "action.php" so the form will send the info to the processing script which is in the page "action.php".

If you want, you may save your Thank you page with ANY other name like "thankyou" or "confirmation" or anything else. However, the form action, MUST be set accordingly : "thankyou.php" or "confirmation.php" etc.

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