Extracting message from URL and display it HTML

Question

I have this http://localhost/resume/Template/index.html?msg=Message%20Sent%20Successfully

how do I extract the message "Message Sent Successfully and display it in this form

<form action="send_form_email.php" name="contactForm" method="post">
    //I want to display the message here
    <h4>E-mail</h4>
    <div class="border-stripes">
        <input type="email" class="textfield" name="email" placeholder="Your e-mail address" />
    </div>
    <h4>Message</h4>
    <div class="border-stripes">
        <textarea class="textarea" name="message" rows="3" placeholder="Your message"></textarea>
    </div>
    <br />
    <br />
    <input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

`urldecode` you can use. Please check this http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php — Krishna38, May 26 '15 at 07:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '15 at 07:23

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This should echo the GET variable:

<?php echo urldecode($_GET['msg']); ?>

answered May 26 '15 at 07:23

foxbeefly

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it still isn't showing the message in the form. note that I have the form saved as html file – Nicolas El Khoury May 26 '15 at 07:58
OK well unless you have configured your web-server (Apache?) to serve html files as php files I think that is your problem. – foxbeefly May 26 '15 at 08:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

If you need to do it in php (note that there is no security check for XSS)

<form action="send_form_email.php" name = "contactForm" method="post">
                    <?php echo urldecode($_GET['msg']); ?>
                    <h4>E-mail</h4>
                    <div class="border-stripes"><input type="email" class="textfield" name="email" placeholder="Your e-mail address" /></div>
                    <h4>Message</h4>
                    <div class="border-stripes"><textarea class="textarea" name="message" rows="3" placeholder="Your message"></textarea></div><br /><br />
                    <input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

else in js

function getParameterByName(name) {
    name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\]");
    var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)"),
        results = regex.exec(location.search);
    return results === null ? "" : decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, " "));
}
var msg = getParameterByName('msg');
$( "form" ).prepend( "<p>"+msg+"</p>" );

The function getParameterByName is taken from here

the one in php still doesn't display anything!! Note that the form is saved as html — Nicolas El Khoury, May 26 '15 at 07:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 26 '15 at 07:32

If you want to do this in javascript then you can try to parse query string:

var query = (function() {
    function decode(string) {
        return decodeURIComponent(string.replace(/\+/g, " "));
    }
    var result = {};
    if (location.search) {
        location.search.substring(1).split('&').forEach(function(pair) {
            pair = pair.split('=');
            result[decode(pair[0])] = decode(pair[1]);
        });
    }
    return result;
})();

$('form[name=contactForm]').prepend('<p>' + query['msg'] + '</p>');

Prasanna · Answer 4 · 2015-05-26T07:47:18.480

Javascript:

I have write down the function for same using that you can access any parameter of URL.

Example:

function getParamValue(name) {
    name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\\]");
    var regexS = "[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)";
    var regex = new RegExp(regexS);
    var results = regex.exec(location.href);
    if (results == null)
        return "";
    else
        return decodeURI(results[1]);
}

alert(getParamValue('param'));

Your solution: http://jsfiddle.net/tb8cetLy/1/

viral · Answer 5 · 2015-05-26T09:03:24.963

I guess you are doing something like this in send_form_email.php

// process form data
// redirect to index.html with $_GET['msg'] variable

If you want pretty URLs, use a function like this below, include it on top of your common file

session_start();

function flash_set($k,$v)
{
    $_SESSION['flash'][$k] = $v;
}

function flash_get($k)
{
    if(isset($_SESSION['flash'][$k]))
    {
        $msg = $_SESSION['flash'][$k];
        unset($_SESSION['flash'][$k]);
        return $msg;
    }
    return '';
}

change the send_form_email.php to redirect without $_GET parameters, after you process your form put this,

// process form data
flash_set('form','Message Sent Successfully');
// redirect here

Now, use this in your form like,

<form action="send_form_email.php" name="contactForm" method="post">
<?php echo flash_get('form')?> // I want to display the message here
<h4>E-mail</h4>

The flash message will only show up single time after being redirected, if user refreshes the page, it disappears!!

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered May 26 '15 at 07:32

In HTML/PHP only, you would use urldecode($_GET['msg'])

You can also do it with javascript with a function like :

function getQuerystring(key, default_) {
    if (default_==null) default_=""; 
    key = key.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
    var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]"+key+"=([^&#]*)");
    var qs = regex.exec(window.location.href);
    if(qs == null)
        return default_;
    else
        return qs[1];
}

This function will allow you to get msg with var msg = getQuerystring("msg"); and you can mix it with unescape functions ( http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_unescape.asp ).

Sorry, this is a function found on the web, using it in project but can't explain it — xNeyte, May 26 '15 at 07:50

Extracting message from URL and display it HTML

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