Header() problems/replacements

lorddraco98

Currently, my scripts have no way of returning a user back to the page they navigated away from when say they type their user/pass to login. I've tried using

header("location:page.php");

but that just gives me the following error: Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started ...(my script name here)
it's doing it in my functions incude somewhere, so I can't get around that. Is there a way to fix this or is there a different method I could use to direct a user to their orignial page??

Damien_Buttler

I think the code you are looking for is:
header("Location: age.php");

lorddraco98

Originally posted by Damien_Buttler
I think the code you are looking for is:
header("Location: age.php");

that's weird. I didn't even type that stuff in. I think it was beacuse I did a : p
o well, the header still doesn't work cause of the output errors, any alternatives or fixes?

kriek

Use output buffering with ob_start() and ob_end_flush()

<?php ob_start(); ?>

// Your script here

<?php ob_end_flush(); ?>

Although ob_end_flush() isn't needed in MOST cases because it is called automatically at the end of script execution by PHP itself when output buffering is turned on either in the php.ini or by calling ob_start()

lorddraco98

hmm, i did this:

ob_start();
header("Location: test3.php");
ob_end_flush();

and I still get the error of output already being sent :/

kriek

I should have been more specific.

<?php ob_start(); ?>

<?php header("Location: test3.php"); ?>
// entire script, code, or page here

<?php ob_end_flush(); ?>

There is a reason why I wrote it the way I did =)