Redirection

SmileeTiger · Oct 27, 2001

Umm how the heck do I do redirection in PHP?
I want to foward users to different pages depending on input into a text box but I have no idea how redirection works..
Cory

stakadush · Oct 28, 2001

you could do it easily using javasciprt (there's a nice script at:

http://www.javascriptmadeeasy.com/).

if you want to redirect using php do it like this:
header ("Location: $redirect_to" (-:

lumberjakel · Oct 28, 2001

You should NOT use javascript
use

Code:

header(&quot;Location: redirect.html&quot;);

however, you should use the header function before the HMTL headers are sent. So make youre page look like this

Code:

<?php
switch ($var)
{
  case &quot;a&quot;:
    header(&quot;Location: a.html&quot;);
    exit;
  case &quot;b&quot;:
    header(&quot;Location: b.html&quot;);
    exit;
  case &quot;c&quot;:
    header(&quot;Location: c.html&quot;);
    exit;
}
/* or 
    header(&quot;Location: $var&quot;);
   or
    header(&quot;Location: $var.html&quot;);
*/
?>
<html>
<head>...</head>
<body>
error don't know page <? echo $var ?>
</body>
</html>

SmileeTiger · Oct 28, 2001

Thanks! That helped lots. One just has to remember not to print any text first!

Cory

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