redirecting a user

[Anon]

I have an if else statement and I want the else section to redirect a user to a different page. Can someone please help me to do this? Thanks in advance.

[mkarabulut]

<?
if ($user=="ME")
{
//print some private stuff of me
}
else
{
//hey,go out! here is for me!
header("Location:foreigners.php");
die("");
}

?>

[hankster]

In the PHP documentation:
There are two special-case header calls. The first is the "Location" header. Not only does it send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a REDIRECT (302) status code to the browser.

header("Location: http://www.php.net/"); / Redirect browser
to PHP web site /
exit; / Make sure that code below does
not get executed when we redirect. /

[Anon]

The trick with using the header function call-> NOTHING can be sent to the browser beforehand... that means no <ECHO>, no <PRINT>.. nothing that returns anything to the browser..

ALSO, to ensure that you meet RFC standards (which most web servers support), you want to send the browser a message indicating that you are going to be redirecting the user.
Apache doesn't need this, but FHTTPD does, and its good habit in case you ever change servers.

header("HTTP/1.0 302 Redirection");
header("Location:new_page.php3");

Good luck
andre @ performance technologies

[jowatkins]

Am I right in thinking the headers won't work because you've already sent data.

try the HTML <META Http-equiv="refresh" Content="1; Url=logout.php">

The "1" indicates time in seconds