Makinge a redirect from a define form action

[Chrysanthus]

Hi all

how do i manage to make a rediret from the code down here after the if checks and the entering the register button i shoulde redirect to a userpage!...

do i use a <input type="hidden" name="goto" value="file?">

<form action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>" method="post" name="hej">

              Username:<br>

              <input type="text" name="username" size="15" class="inputSidebar" value="<?php 

              if($username_control != 0){ echo $_POST['username'];} 

              elseif(username2_control !=0){ echo $_POST['username'];} 

              elseif(username3_control !=0){ echo $_POST['username'];} 

              elseif(username4_control !=0){ echo $_POST['username'];} 

              else{ echo ''; }  ?>"> 

              <?php echo $empty_username; ?> <br> 

              Password:<br> 

              <input type="password" name="password" size="15" class="inputSidebar" value="<?php 

              if($password_control != 0){ echo $_POST['password'];} 

              elseif($password4_control !=0){ echo $_POST['password'];} 

              elseif($password5_control !=0){ echo $_POST['password'];}else{ echo ''; } 

              ?>"> 

              <?php echo $empty_password; ?><br> 

              Verify Password:<br> 

              <input type="password" name="password2" size="15" class="inputSidebar" value="<?php 

              if($password2_control != 0 && $password_control != 0){ echo $_POST['password2'];} 

              else{ echo ''; }  ?>"> 

              <?php echo $empty_password2; ?><br> 

              E-mail (In case you lose your password):<br> 

              <input type="text" name="email" size="15" class="inputSidebar" value="

			  <?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>"> 

              <?php echo $empty_email; ?><br><br> 

              <input class="button" type="submit" name="submit" value="Create User">               

           <input type="hidden" name="set" value="set"> 
           </form> 

[kevinc]

Oh man! I feel sorry for the poor guy that actually attempts to read that code! Please make use of the "[ P H P ] [ / P H P ]" tags. They're quite useful!

Secondly, to redirect someone to another page, you should use the header("Location:newlocation.php") command, replacing newlocation.php with where you want them to be redirected to. The only thing with this, is you cannot send any headers before it. (If you use a print/echo/etc statement, it's considered a header thus rendering the header() command redundant.)

The other alternative is to use META tags. Meta can be refreshed any time, it's not as clean as PHP, and not very good programming practice. To use Meta, you could create a function as follows:

function redirect($url,$delay='0') {
	print '
		<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="'.$delay.';URL='.$url.'">
	';
}

//In practice

redirect('newplace.php');

You can use that to redirect to another URL. It will also accept a second parameter of delay.

Hope this helps.
Kevin

[lazzerous]

The proper use of the < form > tag is as follows:

<form method="post" action="location_to_send_results.php">

When the user hits the submit button, they will be taken to location_to_send_results.php

-=Lazzerous=-

[Chrysanthus]

i kinde of liket you code kevinc

function redirect($url,$delay='0') { 
    print ' 
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="'.$delay.';URL='.$url.'"> 
    '; 
} 

//In practice 

redirect('newplace.php');

i wonder if there is any way to make it execute after registerd value has been correct insertede to a form??