Why does header dooesn't work???

shamil

Can someone tell me why does my code...
Header ('Location: login.php")
doesn't work??
should i add something in <head>or what??
Or else i'd really apprecaite your point for another way of making ..
a page...after having test whether variable is present in database ..redirect to another page while sending the varaiable 'true'???
Thank you in advance....

shastry

Hi,

HTTP  requires an absolute URL as argument to Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URLs. You can usually use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and dirname() to make an absolute URI from a relative one yourself:

header("Location: [url]http://[/url]".$SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
.dirname($SERVER['PHP_SELF'])
."/".$relative_url);

for more check out at..

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

ken_ip

Header ('Location: login.php") <- maybe wrong quot mark... ('...")

there is sth output to page before header sent.

pls note that no output allow before header sent even space...

nightowl

IE does accept relative url's, so chances are that you indeed have the wrong quotation marks.