Redirect after scrip execution

[Anon]

Hello
Im need redirect to another page after a script execution.
I have a script to process a form and send an email. After I want to go back to previous page.
How can i do this?

[Anon]

header("Location: $page");

Put that at the end of your script and it will redirect the user to a new page without them knowing anything. Ofcourse you can't have printed anything to the screen for this to work. If you need to print information to the screen then you need to use the <meta> refresh tag, and you'll have to time it to work properly.

[Anon]

As pointed out in a different post, you can do this using the header() function, by setting the "Location: " property. For example: Header('Location: http://www.example.com') would redirect the user to example.com.

This is the most transparent way to do redirects, as the user won't be bothered. Now, the header function can't be called after ANY output has been sent. However, you can use output buffering (have a look in the manual). There are some server settings you need to look at, but in most cases, starting your scripts with a call to ob_start() will suffice.

I like this solution, and use it heavily in administration systems to avoid people reloading a page and thereby inadvertently create a new entry in the DB or similiar.