2 quick ?'s about redirecting

FrozNic · 2003-04-21T15:16:03+00:00

is header the only way in php to *redirect (i guess is the word) to a new page with no vars in memory. i know headers wont work in the middle of a php doc....

2 quick ?'s about redirecting

FrozNic

is header the only way in php to *redirect (i guess is the word) to a new page with no vars in memory.
i know headers wont work in the middle of a php doc. so how exactly do i make em work in a if then clause?

example:

IF form filled out {
header ('gohere.php');

}
ELSE
{
post form again
}

anyone got some pointers on this... thx

superwormy

header() only fails IF THERE IS OUTPUT TO THE PAGE BEFORE THE CALL TO HEADER().

www.php.net/header

You if statement will work fine as long as there is not output to the browser before it.

You have to remember that header() is not actually redirecting the person. It is sending them a text string that says to go somewher eelse, it is always up to the person's browser or user-agent whether or not to follow that instruction.

An option may be to just unset all variables that are set, or if you want to turn to the dark site, a Javascript redirect.

HTML meta-redirects may work as well.

FrozNic

i figured it out... thanks for the reply.. sometimes, i'm such a noob lol