Help redirecting

chuo999

Hello up there!

I think it´s easy but i don´t find the answer!

I want the user to go to a page if a condition is true, example:

if (a==b) {go_to_that_page.htm ;}

I tried with fopen(), link(), but perhaps i´m missing something.

Could somebody help me with this?

sarahk

You have a few choices.

1) include the new page, the url won't change
2) echo out a metarefresh request with the new page url
3) use the header() command to request the new page, this will only work if you haven't sent any other header commands but is probably the best choice.

I use option 1) when I'm within a site and 3) when moving between a secure host and my main site. I use 2) in those instances where the other 2 approaches aren't quite right. pcpropertymanager.com uses all of these.

piersk

If its within an if statement, chances are that you wont have used any headers or sent any html to the browser, so I think using the header() function would be your best solution. (personal preference).

theeper

<?php
if ($a == $b) {
    header ("Location: [url]http://some.site.com[/url]"); 
    }
?>

theeper

I hate that stoopid URL parser ... this is what it is supposed to look like

<?php
if ($a == $b) {
    header ("Location: http://some.site.com"); 
    }
?>