Redirect to a page and display form's confirmation message on that page

Hello,

Apologies if this was asked before, I couldn't find an exact question.

I would like to redirect a visitor on submitting a form to a WP page and also display that form's confirmation message (before other page info). This WP page is also accessible by itself. However, I only want to display the form's confirmation message on that page if it was redirected to after submitting a form. Ideally, I don't want to use URL parameters.

Can I add some code to a page template or do it via hooks somehow?

Many thanks, Dasha

Hello David,

Thank you for letting me know.
I was trying to use a global, so it will be set after the form goes through gform_confirmation filter. Something like that:

global $gf_data;
$gf_data = "";
add_filter("gform_confirmation_2", "add_story_custom_confirmation", 10, 4);
function add_story_custom_confirmation( $confirmation, $form, $lead, $ajax ){
	global $gf_data;

	$gf_data .= "Thank you for submitting a story. We will be in touch soon.";
    return $confirmation;
}

Than in the template that a visitor redirected to I'm displaying the global $gf_data as:

global $gf_data;
echo "<h1>GF DATA</h1>";
echo $gf_data;

I've tested and the global $gf_data is setup in the filter before return $confirmation. However, it doesn't seem to appear on the page template.

I was wondering if such work around will be possible, perhaps, I'm missing something out? Or this is not possible at all?

I would appreciate your help.
Many thanks, Dasha

Hello David,

Thanks for letting me know. Hmm, I'm really confused now, I'm using gform_pre_submission hook, but the global doesn't have any values after the redirect. I'd thought because it's a global variable, it will have the value saved after the redirect.

I will try session..

Many thanks, Dasha