how do I redirect after php?

szym9341

I have two pages... page one is a form, page two does the insert... It also displays a thank you message. After that second page loads, I would like the page to redirect back to the home page and popup a window to download a specified file ...

any suggestions?

weekender

to redirect

header("Location: page.php");

csousley

If your second page, the one that does the processing, prints out a thank you, there are only a couple options. Either a meta tag in your html, or javascript.

If your second page just processed the passed info and then sent you somewhere else you could use php. The header() function will redirect as long as you don't print ANYTHING back to the page, or pass any header information first.

szym9341

okay.. thanks for the update.

page 1 :takeinfo.php
page 2 :insertinfo.php

On page two I only do php insert code.. after that is finished, I use the include to prompt to download a file. I would like the background to change from takeinfo.php to another "thank you pge".. how should I do that?

csousley

You can do that with javascript. If you need I can dig up some sample code, I've done something kind of like that before but it's been a while and may take a little effort to find...

csousley

Nevermind, I found it. Now this will likely not work for you but should get you started.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
<!--
function create() {
window.opener.location="/sub/login/login.php";
self.close()
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>

What this script did was do some checks and if this then run function create() which closed the current window and sent the background window to a login page. I don't remember if the frontmost window needed to be opened with javascript for the window.opener.location line to work or not?

Good Luck