Little help needed

iNFERiON

I have this index.php file where the user is able to read an agreement before he enters the site, now I want index.php?agree=yes to link to main.php and index.php?agree=no to link to exit.php. Tried the following, but it always goes straight to main.php, what am I not seeing here ?

<head>
<?php
if (!$agree)
{
$agree = "read";
}
if ($agree = "yes")
{
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=main.php\">";
}
elseif ($agree = "no")
{
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=exit.php\">";
}
?>
</head>
<body>
<?
if ($agree = "read")
{
echo "
<p class=\"style1\">Before you go anywhere on our site, make sure you complete read and agree to this disclaimer. If you do not, leave this site immediately.</p>
<p align=\"center\" class=\"style1\">
  <textarea name=\"agreement\" cols=\"80\" rows=\"10\" wrap=\"OFF\" id=\"agreement\"> My agreement goes in here </textarea>
</p>
<p align=\"center\" class=\"style3\"><span class=\"style6\"><a href=\"index.php?agree=no\">I do NOT agree to these terms and wish to leave</a></span><span class=\"style3\"><a href=\"index.php?agree=yes\"><br>
  <br>
    <span class=\"style6\">I agree to these terms and want to continue</span></a></span></p>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Thanks already 🙂

devinemke

your syntax is wrong, you need to use "==" as the comparison operator. anyway, why not do your redirect server-side rather than client-side?

if (!$agree) {$agree = 'read';}
if ($agree == 'yes') {header ('location: main.php');}
if ($agree == 'no') {header ('location: exit.php');}

if ($agree == 'read') {echo 'blah blah blah';}

be advised, you cannot output anything (even whitespace) to browser before calling header()

iNFERiON

thanks for the help, but now it just reloads the agreement when you click either I ACCEPT or I DECLINE, so it still doesn't forward the user to the mentioned page.

artic

You need to $POST['var'] or $GET['var'] and store it in $agree before the if statement can access it.

devinemke

assuming your form is POST method and has a field called "argree":

if (isset ($_POST['agree'])) {$agree = $_POST['agree'];} else {$agree = 'read';}
if ($agree == 'yes') {header ('location: main.php');} 
if ($agree == 'no') {header ('location: exit.php');} 
if ($agree == 'read') {echo 'blah blah blah';}