What's wrong with HEADER?

[corruption]

I'm simply trying to redirect from one page to another. Somewhere i'm getting confused on this thing i've done a hundred times.

$query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$URL = "http://www2.truman.edu/~d1514/Deltasig/brothers/brothers.php";

header("Location: $URL");

I'm not sure why it won't redirect.

[Weedpacket]

....And what is it doing instead?

[TheDefender]

... and where does this: ($query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error())😉 come into the picture at all?

Seriously though, when you say it doesn't redirect, what's it doing instead? Does the page just sit there? Are you getting errors? As far as the code goes, you ask, what's wrong with the header? Well, the code looks fine. Give details to the problem...

[Drakla]

If you're doing a header location redirect always shove an exit; after it if there's more stuff that would normally be shown if perhaps a condition wasn't met as php doesn't just stop the script dead, and sometimes it gomms up the output and you get the old "Headers Already Sent" problem and think - what! you're tweakin my mind pipes, ain't cha!

[corruption]

the page simply sits there. The page is intended to process a form into a database then move on to another page.
There is no code after the header