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March 25th, 2003, 04:12 AM

obi

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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?