Redirection in PHP

[Daft]

Hi,

I search a function in php who's redirect a page to an another ! Can you tell me the name of this function and how I must user it !

Daft

 

[rycamor]

<?php
$new_url = &quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.the_new_url.com/&quot;;[/URL]
header(&quot;Location: $new_url&quot;);
?>

Or

<?php
header(&quot;Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.the_new_url.com/a_directory/a_file.html&quot;)[/URL]
?>

This must be sent before ANY other output, or the browser will be unable to use it as a header. (of course, any output sent after it will be ignored, also, as the browser redirects)

 

[carloslau]

if need to use after send,
add ob_start(); at the very first beginning

 

[Inssider]

In addition to what rycamor said, if you're checking for a variable for conditional redirectioning and you have more stuff underneath for nonmatching variables, you can make sure those commands aren't executed by simply adding exit() at the end of your if statement.

 

[Donalo]

I've got a question on this topic, how do I redirect based on the URL the vistor used.
ie;

http://www.mysite.com

opens index.html as usual
but

http://alias.mysite.com

normally also finds the same index.html, but I want to redirect this user to another page in my site.

Help!

D