Launching a new page

[smiffy47]

With the help of an introductory php tutorial I've just started to put some php into my sites.
I've cracked how to compare the value of strings and get a comparison to operate, eg
<?php if ($password = $yourpassword){
echo 'OK';
}
else {
echo 'Wrong Password';
}
?>

Now, instead of "echo 'Wrong Password';" I want the result to be the launch of a different web-page. What code is required? Where do I find out more? The tutorials I've explored all seem to stop just when things are getting interesting!

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[trollacious]

With PHP, if you're comparing 2 things in an if statement you need TWO equal signs: ==, not one like you have in your example.

Then you need to look up the code to redirect to a different page, but make sure you haven't printed anything to the page before the redirection or PHP will issue an error message.

Lee

 

[Vragabond]

Lee is perfectly correct. Your example will always evaluate as true, since you're assigning $yourpassword variable to $password variable. That will always happen, so it will always be true.

As regards to your redirection question, you should use the header() function like this:

header ("Location: /path/to/page.php");

Since this function sends headers (something that needs to happen before any output, Lee is again correct in telling you that you should not have any html, white-space or echo/print commands before header is issued.

 

[smiffy47]

Thanks, folks.
I'll see what I can make of your instructions.
Steve

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