calling an html page from php

Anon

after authenticating the users, if the user is valid, i want to directly redirect him without any click (using href) to another html or php page. how can i do this.

shekar

matjaz

use:

header("Location: http://www.news.com/something.php");
exit;

manual says you should put exit; after that... i always add it just in case.

Anon

Cannot add header information - headers already sent by

alvinkoh

Hi Rajasekar,

All headers must be sent before any html output. Calculations/codings before the header is fine as long as nothing is sent to the browser before that. (not even whitespace!)

e.g. (WRONG)

<-- output
<?php
//coding goes here
header(location: url)
?>

e.g. CORRECT
<?php
//coding goes here
//no prints/echos
header(location: url)
?>

Alvin Koh.

alvinkoh

Ops. tag got lost.

should be:

 <-- output WRONG
<?php
//coding goes here
header(location: url)
?>

Alvin.

Anon

you have to make sure that the header is the very first thing sent to the browser. so put it as close to the top of your script as you can. and make sure it is before ANYTHING gets sent to the browser.

trapper

Isn\\'t there a better way? I mean, I\\'ve just logged this user in and got some information about him - maybe just an ID or something - that I want to take along.

header() drops all post info. I could of course use URL encoded goobedigook but it looks ugly. I found that session handling makes it possible to pass along variables but it\\'s adds a lot of overhead - besides the whole thing with header() is it\\'s a clumsy construct.

Another problem is that if you - on the new page - call history.back() it won\\'t return to the initial page... somehow it\\'s blocked by the header() function...