Any help is appreciated...

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and need some help with the website I am building. I am building a form and everything is fine until I try to redirect someone to a different page when they put in a different country. For example, if someone puts USA as their country they are directed to my thank you page, but I want to make it where if someone puts in a different country and hits the submit form they are redirected to a different page. How do I do that?

Here is my form code..

<form name=myForm onsubmit=submitForm()
action=http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl
method=post><input type=hidden value=0000000
name=meta_web_form_id></input> <input type=hidden
name=meta_split_id></input> <input type=hidden
value=your-cd-request name=unit></input> <input type=hidden
value=http://www.mywebsite.com
name=redirect></input> <input type=hidden value=index
name=meta_adtracking></input> <input type=hidden value=1
name=meta_message> </input><input type=hidden
value=firstname,lastname,address,city,state,zip,country,phone,from
name=meta_required></input> <input type=hidden value=0
name=meta_forward_vars></input> <input type=hidden name=name> </input>

here is the javascript someone told me to use as redirect but it's not working...

<SCRIPT language=Javascript>
function submitForm() {
document.myForm.name.value = document.myForm.firstname.value + " " + document.myForm.lastname.value;
if (document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "usa" &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "u.s.a." &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "u. s. a." &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "united states of america" &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "u.s." &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "us" &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "u. s." &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "america" &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "united states" &&
document.myForm.country.value.toLowerCase() != "canada") {
document.myForm.meta_web_form_id.value = "1111111";
document.myForm.unit.value ="int-cd-request";
document.myForm.redirect.value ="http://www.test.com";
}
}
</SCRIPT>

Any help is appreciated... Thanks.

 

To start with, I would recommend not having the Country field be type-in, make it a <select> instead. You can grab the list of countries and country codes from one of the millions of sites that have one.

The best way to handle US vs. Non-US is to have the server-side form detect the country selected by the user and react accordingly.

If you use JavaScript to handle it, you will still a "safety net" in your server-side page to handle requests from Non-US people who don't have JavaScript enabled.

Therefore, instead of writing the code twice (once in PHP and once in Javascript), just handle it on the server.