Changing URL with PHP

Anon

Is there a function or any way I can redirect the user using PHP4?

Thanks,
Tom

brandonschnell

call the php function header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/otherpage.php"); before anything else is sent to the user.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

Anon

What about for conditional redirects, such as:

if (this) {
redirectfunctionhere
}
else
{ redirecttherefunction }

After all, adding a header before anything else, then how is that different from simply a refresh with time 0?

SCT

ame12

You can do your conditional redirect before actually outputting HTML (I do this routinely).

<?php if ($cond1 == "blah") {
header("location: 1.php");
} else {
header("location: 2.php");
}
?>
<BODY>...

If you can't figure out how to do that in your case, you can do a metatag refresh as you suggest. BUT... it will not appear as clean as a true 302 redirect... because the page will flicker before redirecting (even with a 0 refresh value).

That's why a 302 redirect is usually preferred.

Dave

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