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March 25th, 2003, 04:12 AM

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Pains with redirecting

Please can somebody settle for me the problem I have with redirecting users from a page to another php page.Coming largely from an ASP background I am used to sending users from a page I merely use for inserting into or updating a database, to another that tells them the status of their recent actions, just by using:
Response.Redirect

Is there an equivalent in php?I tried:
header ("Location:http://www.abc.net");
and it fails woefully each time.

March 25th, 2003, 02:13 PM

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Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
location.href = "www.abc.com";
</script>

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March 25th, 2003, 02:48 PM

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Put the following code into a file called 'redirect.php'

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



  $sUrl = $_REQUEST['to'];



  if (!headers_sent($filename, $linenum)) {

    header ("Location: $sUrl");

      exit;



  // Use refresh if header does not work. This seems to work in the middle of

  // any web page. I am not sure what it will do to the browser, though.

  } else {

      echo "\n<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" "

          . " content=\"0;URL=$sUrl\">\n";

  }



?>

call it like this:
http://redirect.php?to=http://www.yahoo.com

or

in a script, set
$sUrl = "http://www.yahoo.com/"

then

include "redirect.php";

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April 1st, 2003, 02:44 AM

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The reason your redirect is not working may be that you have already tried to output some content before attempting the redirect. Are you getting "headers already sent" error?

PHP Code:


		
			
 ob_start();

echo "Am I wanted or good?<br />";

if ($sometest) {

  ob_end_clean(); 

  header ("Location: someplace");

  exit;

}

ob_end_flush();

April 1st, 2003, 09:38 AM

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Sorry, we should have tied up this post... I helped him get this together offline... all is well.

thanks,

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