redirect to a page

ceanth

Is there any way i can redirect to a page? I have a set up where the page checks if sessions are there, if they are then great, carry on, if not i need them to login. I could copy and paste the login code after the "else" but is there any way i can redirect to login.html?

tuf-web_co_uk

you could use a html meta tag

Weedpacket

...but that would be silly, because it won't redirect them until after they're already in.

Look up [man]header[/man].

cassius

I agree with you weedpacket, but do you know of a solution to use "header-redirection" when i already use a header in my session to redirect users who arent authorised to view the page they enter??

This is my session-part that use a header:

session_start();
if (@$auth != "yes"){
	header("Location: index.php");//login-page
    exit();
  	}

If I try to redirect the user(later in the script) I get an error that says something like "Headers allready sent..."

Weedpacket

Originally posted by cassius
If I try to redirect the user(later in the script) I get an error that says something like "Headers allready [sic] sent..."

Don't you dare ask a question about that error message until you can show that nothing that's already been said about it in the forums helps. Search for it and you'll see why I say this.:mad:🙂

ducey

Couldn't you have the auth checking in a seperate page then the redirects the user to the page that creates the sessions?

For example:

User visits site -> clicks link -> auth is checked -> is then redirected to appropriate page (login or page they clicked)

Just a thought! I could be wrong 🙂

cassius

tnx for help/critics. I should have searched for it first(I usually do), but I have found another solution for it now.

Tnx anyway 🙂

ceanth

tnx for help/critics. I should have searched for it first(I usually do), but I have found another solution for it now.

What was the solution you found? Maybe it will help me 🙂

cassius

I changed quite a lot of things to make this work, but first of all I guess i should explain about the site I'm using this on:
It's a "member site" with 2 choices at index.php : 1)create new users 2)log in existing user.

I used a plain html-form and set the action to login.php?switch=new for creating new users and login.php?switch=login for existing users.

In the login.php-file I made a switch-case with one case for "login" and one case for "new". If the login/new user data returned a failure, an errormessage was sent as a variable, the switch-case was "unset" and i included "index.php" once again.

After i changed my session-variable i was able to use the header-function as I tried to at first...

This may seem a bit confusing, but this is just a sketch of my solution.