Redirects and other stuff

[zingbats]

I have a login system that works fine. The only trouble is getting it to redirect to the page that you login at.

header.php is included in EVERY page on the site. It also has the login form in it. In header.php I have the following pieces of code (not next to each other)

<?
$url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$url = $url . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
echo $url;
?>

and....

<form method="POST" action="http://www.tycooneden.com/login.php">
         <div align="left">
         <input type="hidden" name="url" value="<?php echo ("$url");?>">
             <table border="0" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="53%" id="AutoNumber5">
               <tr>
                 <td width="17%"><b><i><font size="4" color="#333333">Login:</font></i></b><font color="#333333"><b> </b></font><font size="4" color="#333333">&nbsp;</font></td>
                 <td width="15%"><font color="#333333"><b> User:</b></font></td>
                 <td width="19%"><input type="text" name="username" size="20"></td>
                 <td width="17%"><font size="4" color="#333333"> Password:</font></td>
                 <td width="16%"><input type="password" name="password" size="20"></td>
                 <td width="16%"><input type="submit" value="Login" name="B1"></td>
               </tr>
               </form>

Thus posting the refer information to login.php.

In login.php is the code:

        header("Location: $url");
    }
?>

But.. it doesn't want to redirect.

Any help would be greately appreciated...
A|ex

[Natty_Dreadlock]

u include header.php on the top of every page, and since header.php outputs some data (echo $url), php is unable to add any further header information, i.e. the redirect command.
So in order to redirect, u must not use ANY of php's output methods before sending the redirect header. Even whitespaces before or after <?php ?> do start the output, so u have to be a little careful when u send additional headers.

[zingbats]

whoosh
That went straight over my head lol. I am rlly tired. Could you provide possible solutions?

A|ex

[Natty_Dreadlock]

ok remove the echo $url from header.php....

[zingbats]

Yep done that