Web design FAQ

Questions I have received about web design, and my advice.

Tracking web form submittal

Question:

I have a client that wants to receive information from a form and when they click the submit button they want their viewer to be launched to a different site ... like a YouTube video.

I am using a bootstrap form that captures info and sends it to site owner via email. The clients intent is to track those that go to the video.

The form I am using utilizes a JS to capture and a PHP to send the info to the client.

Answer:

The web form submits to a PHP script; the PHP script sends an email to the site owner.

In the PHP script, after sending the email, do the following:

• Log the user's visit: write a line to a log file, or add a record to a database, with the user's IP address and time of visit.

• Redirect the user to YouTube using the header function.