[mod] Redirect to custom 'Thank you' page

[stacef]

I've posted a fairly detailed explanation of how I customized my PHPList installation over here:

http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29269

Please check it out; I'd love the feedback.

Thanks,
Stace

[MarkA.]

jwgriffin-

Sure sounds like you've completed this successfully. I think most of us here understand the implications of editing core code but we haven't figured out all the steps necessary to completely customize the subscription process. Would you be interested in sharing in detail how you were able to make it work? There are a lot of folks looking for this info.

Thanks,
Stace

Hello Stace,

I wrote a very detailed 'step by step' post in plain language describing how to customize the subscribe, thank you and confirmation pages some time ago. It's still working fine now and is very stable.

You can see my detailed post here:
viewtopic.php?t=11842

Is this what you were looking for?

As I have said before, this program is amazing, I can't thank everyone enough for making it available.

All the best, Mark

[PaulTowlson]

Thanks for the advice here. I found the simplest solution from above was to modify phplist/admin/subscribelib2.php at line 342. The header line is the one I added. I hope this helps anyone still looking for an answer.

# personalise the thank you page
if ($subscribepagedata["thankyoupage"]) {
$thankyoupage = $subscribepagedata["thankyoupage"];
header("Location:http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/thankyoupage");
}
else {
$thankyoupage = '<h3>'.$strThanks.'</h3>'. $strEmailConfirmation;
}

I still need to do the same for a forward page.

[WDKevin]

First off, thank you to great suggestions in this thread. I've taken this one step further. We use PHPList to manage newsletters for multiple clients, so redirecting all thank you pages to one specific URL wasn't sufficient for us. In order to combat this problem and still allow for custom Thank You pages for each of our subscriptions, I've modified the code to this:

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if ($subscribepagedata["thankyoupage"]) {
  $thankyoupage = $subscribepagedata["thankyoupage"];
  if(substr(strtolower($thankyoupage), 0, 7) == "http://") { header("Location:".$thankyoupage); }
} else {
  $thankyoupage = '<h3>'.$strThanks.'</h3>'. $strEmailConfirmation;
}


Then in the text box for the Thank You page text, I put the full URL for the thank you page I wish to be redirected to. The above code looks for 'http://' in the first 7 characters of the contents of the text box and if it's find it then the user is redirected to that URL. If 'http://' is not detected then we know there is not a URL in that field and the text is displayed as usual.

I'm working on a similar work around for the confirmation page. I will post back when I have a solution.

[schpeter]

Is there any new solution for this problem because it doesn't work for me.

[devastor]

Hey do anyone know why this code of the confirmation page:

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/*
   $res .= $data["header"];
   $res .= '<.h1>'.$info.'<./h1>';
   $res .= $html;
   $res .= "<.P>".$GLOBALS["PoweredBy"].'<./p>';
   $res .= $data["footer"];
   */
   $res = header("Location: http://www.mypage.com/new/funktion.erfolg.html");

leads to: http://www.mypage.comnewfunktion.erfolg.html ?

I miss the backslashes-> /

The thank you page works fine! I use version 3.0.12

Greetings
Mathias

EDIT: Doesn't matter anymore, it was my fault, because i added i redirect in the htaccess in the meanwhile, from www to non-www (if you have the same problem, delete the www. from the header location link).