Redirections For Dummies?

darthmahon

How easy is it to redirect users? This forum does it, so I've been playing around but can't get it to work. At the moment if the user tries to access a secure page and they are not logged in they get redirected to the login page and are told to login.

Now in the address bar I have got it so that it collects the data of the page they tried to access. For example if they were trying to access the page "hello.php" in the "members" folder the URL would look like this:

I've got the following code for my login script to try and take them to the $redirect info.

#Check For Forwarding
if ($forward=="") 
{ 
header("Location: members/$redirect");
} 
else 
{ 
header("Location: members/welcome.php");
}

It returns the URL:

members/index.php

Haven't got a clue, but would be VERY useful to be able to do this, would help my users immensely.

Cheers,
Chris

Wynder

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); / Redirect browser /

/ Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. /
exit;
?>

darthmahon

I understand the header function, it's getting that $redirect variable to actually show.

I need to add the $redirect variable to the rest of the header location function.

But it doesn't seem to be doing that.

darthmahon

This seems like it should be really easy, just adding the information contained in the variable to something else...

It must be possible because other people do it. Just wish I knew how =)

Wynder

header("Location: members/" . $redirect);

try that?

darthmahon

Just returns the url:

http://www.ourincomesplus.net/members/

Wynder

Oh, OK -- just reread the post. Sorry -- was a bit late for me...

All of the information is going to be stored in your $_GET array which is what you should be using to pull query string information -- turn registered globals off, it's a security risk!

print_r( array_keys($_GET) );

Will print: message forward redirect.

print_r( array_values($_GET) );

Will print out: 1 18 members/welcome.php

You can assign array_values or array_keys to a variable (another array) and itterate through those to pull the info you want, using foreach(), for example.