Linking

[RiceRocket]

Ok everyone, i've started using PHP as of today for a school project.

I'm using Apache with MYSQL and PHP 4

This is a real newb question..

i'm trying to link to another page for a certain result of an
if statement, i don't want to create a link i just want to display the linked page.

Is there a PHP function for this or do i have to handle this with HTML?

i have something like

if( ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) and ($myrow ["password"] == $var2) )
{
echo("successful!\n");

/*goto [url]http://somepage.com*/[/url]

}

[matt_4013]

Hi, I would suggest doing it like this:

/* Use mysql_fetch_assoc() because it halves the processing
time. mysql_fetch_array retrieves both a numeric array and an
associative array, and as you're only using the associative, why
bother with the extra processing? :) */

$myrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

/* Try not to use generic names like "var2" for a variable, when
you start creating bigger scripts, it gets VERY confusing! */

if($myrow['password'] == $password) {

/* Use the header function. This will redirect the user straight
away, using http headers, as such they can't easily stop you from
redirecting them */
header("Location: http://somepage.com/");

/* Stop processing of the script, so that just in case they do
manage not to get redirected, it doesn't keep processing */
exit;

}

Hope that helps!
Matt