Redirecting to url

rcubed · Feb 10, 2004

I have a form that prompts for username and password and does a mysql query to verify and pulls a url from a field in the database and then I want to send the logged in person to this url. Itried this but does not seem to work:

header (location: "$url&quot

What is wrong with this? Please help
Thanks

Chacalinc · Feb 10, 2004

what's about header("Location: " . $url);

try it.. $url must have "

http://address"

danomac · Feb 10, 2004

This will not work as the header() function has to be called before anything else is output to the browser.

I don't believe you can use a variable with it because of this.

If you are trying to do a redirect try using a META tag in the <HEAD> of the html.

ie

Code:

echo &quot;<meta http-equiv=\&quot;refresh\&quot; content=\&quot;0; url=/mypage.php\&quot;>&quot;;

Remember though this needs to be encapsulated in the <HEAD> tag and this may not work on all browsers.

To use this method you need to do your processing before the <HTML> and <HEAD> tags are sent to the browser.

D

Chacalinc · Feb 10, 2004

damonac,

I think this script is called from a canlogin.php or something else, where the only script is check in DB if user exists, if so get his personal url and send him there. No "echo" before, just mysql_query and header.

In addition.. this is a copy/paste from php.net:
<?php
header("Location:

http://"

. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
. dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])
. "/" . $relative_url);
?>

as you can see, you can use variables with headers.

Hope this helps.

DRJ478 · Feb 10, 2004

Using the header() directive is the best option. As danomac says, it has to be the first output to the browser.
So, the solution is: don't put anything into the output stream before calling header().
You can do whatever PHP code before that, as long as no output is generated. You can actually use output buffering - if you are worried about anything getting into the stream - to prevent any output.

What is wrong?

Code:

header (location: &quot;$url&quot;)

The syntax is wrong the way presented. It should be:

Code:

header(&quot;Location: &quot;.$url);

danomac · Feb 10, 2004

I stand corrected.

D

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