PHP redirect

Anon

Do you know the ASP function: redirect(" <url> ")

How can i do this with PHP????

Anon

Have you ever tried with asp2php translator ?

Simply try to translate an ASP page with the redirect function inside ...

by the way you can do it via HTML but you must insert the code below in the <HEAD> section :
<HEAD>
...
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="X; url=http://yoursite.com">
...
</HEAD>

where X is the delay in seconds.

... otherwise you can send via PHP the HTTP Header for a new location :

<?
...
Header("Location: http://yoursite.com");
...
?>

i think it must work ...

Anon

Using the Header() function is you r best bet out of the two, as the meta refresh is a static refresh and not dependant on what your script does.

If you only need it to go to one page whatever happens then use Header(). if you need to go to different pages depending on the result of your script use:

echo "<script language=\"JavaScript\"> ";
echo "location='nextpage.php';";
echo "</script>";

where nextpage.php is the name of the page you want to redirect to.

Anon

The trouble with using the JavaScript location object is that because it uses a client-side command to perform the redirect, the page that does the redirecting stays in the users' browser cache and won't go away unless

(1) there is a META HTTP-EQUIV tag used to force it to expire, or

(2) the user deletes his cache.

Thus, even if you change the location-redirect code at the server side, the user will continue to see to the cached page and thus continue to be redirected to the old URL.

Anon

what if you have php query result in url like

<a href=\"modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=$row[topic_id]&forum=1\">". stripslashes($row[topic_id]) . "</a><

where $row = query result

Anon

Yeap!
Had the same problem. Thanks! That sure helped!

Anon

    $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);




Header("Location: modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=". $row[topic_id] ."&forum=1");

exit();

Anon

what to do if you don't want to show the "nasty" url in the browsers address bar :
i mean that visitors see the url :

http://foo.bar/modules.php

instead of

http://foo.bar/modules.phpop=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=..."

Anon

when dealing with phpnuke. i dont think there is anything you can do about it..

Anon

You could just put your page in a 1px frameset...

Anon

if that "nasty" url is the result of posting form data, simply use the POST method instead of the GET method.

POST passes the same information via the http headers instead of through the url. POSTed variables are programmatically treated the same way as GETed variables in PHP.

example:
...
<form method=post name=frmMyData action=whatever.php>
<input type=text name=typed_by_user>
<input type=submit value=ClickMe>
</form>

after the user clicks submit, whatever they typed will be available via $typed_by_user