passing values in HEADER

[baffled_in_UK]

Hi,

I have a search page on my site that redirects depending on the search term selected within a form. I'm having problems passing the search term to the page that builds the results.

There are a whole load of these....

if ($search1) {
header('Location: http://www.something.com/search.php3?value=$search1');
}

the problem is that the value passed is always $search1 and not the actual value.

I have checked the value in $search1 by placing an echo immediately before the header line and it has the value I expect.
I also created this page...

<?php
$search1="S";
echo"<a href=http://www.something.com/search.php3?value=$search1>Test</a>";
?>

and it worked fine.

Where am I going wrong ?

Thanks

[SpasePeepole]

Hm, perhaps try

if ($search1) {
header('Location: http://www.something.com/search.php3?value=' . '$search1');
}
 

or if that doesnt work

$hdr = 'Location: http://www.something.com/search.php3?value=' . '$search1';
if ($search1) {
header('$hdr');
}

[baffled_in_UK]

Thanks, I've just tried them and neither of those works.

---

Just had a thought and it worked, my original code was fine when I replaced the single quotes with double quotes !!

Anybody know a good syntax checker 🙂

[SpasePeepole]

You got it working with double quotes? yay

[baffled_in_UK]

if ($search1) {
header("Location: http://www.something.com/search.php3?value=$search1");
}

as simple as that.