No PHP in Thanks Message?

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Hi,
I wanted to summarize the data sent by the form user in the Thanks Message action in OnSubmit and coded it with php. Unfortunately that gave a mess, showing parts of my code in the frontend. To check if my code was incorrect, I choose a simple example, but it still comes messy:
[attachment=0]thanks-message-php-frontpage.png[/attachment]

This is the code:

<?php 
echo "<h3>Thank you!</h3>";
?>

I didn't find any topic here describing my experience, so I wonder where I made an obvious mistake.

Regards,
Herbert

GreyHead · Accepted Answer

Hi Herbert,

You don't need PHP for that just

<h3>Thank you!</h3>

will work fine. And, if you want to include data from the form you can use the {input_name} syntax e.g.

<h4>Hi {first_name}, thank you!</h3>

For some reason that escapes me PHP is not supported here - if you need it you can replace the Thanks Message action with a Custom Code action. That behaves in exactly the same way in displaying the output and it accepts PHP.

<?php
$greet = 'Sir';
if ( $form->data['gender'] == 'f' ) {
  $greet = 'Madam';
}
?>
<p>Dear <?php echo $greet; ?>, . . .

Bob

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