openning a php page by call

phenley

Hi,

Is there any way of openning a php page by call

I have a login.php for authenticating users and deciding what they can view, as a result i want the login.php to open Main.php or Guest.php depending on the user.

i looked at the redirect but this gives an error as i output asking for user login info before redirecting

header('Location: Main.php);
// redirect them to anywhere you like.

thorpe

how are you logging these users in?

you should be able to do a redirect straight after logging your users in. before sending them any html.

Frederick

this
header('Location: Main.php);

should be
header("Location: Main.php");

phenley

login.php asks the user for Username & Password when the 'login' button is pressed then the login.php validates the Username & Password with whats in the database.

If the login is ok- i want to go to Main.php or Guest.php

If the login is NOT ok - login.php echos Login does not exist

When i redirect i get the following message, as i want to validate the login before i redirect:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\phpadmin\loginTEST.php:23) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\phpadmin\loginTEST.php on line 196

hmemnon

Try this

<?
if ($_POST){
//validate username and password against db with your query
if ($var==1){//example of returned var of mysql_num_arrows from query above
  Header("Location: main.php");
  exit;
}else{
//this is where you put whatever you want if the username/password don't match with any record
}



}
//and here goes the <form> code

Cheers

phenley

Finally got it working,

thanks for all those who helped.
what i was doing wrong was that i was trying to redirecting, with the redirect code below the <html><head> tags.

The code below is the code i finished up with.

<?
if ($_POST){
//validate username and password against db with query

if($_SESSION[User]=='Level1'){
header("Location: Main.php");
exit;
}
else{
header("Location: Guest.php");
exit;
}

?>
<html>
<head>

thorpe

what do you even need those

tags for?

your script is never going to get that far. php scripts dont HAVE TO have html in them.

phenley

Originally posted by thorpe
what do you even need those

<head>
<html>

tags for?

your script is never going to get that far. php scripts dont HAVE TO have html in them.

There is html code after the php redirect & the <head><html> tags.

The html code asks the user for Username & Password and will tell the user if they didn't fill one of the fields in.

Once the user SUBMITS (clicks the LogIn button) the php code is run and the Username & Password will be validated & and the user will be redirected to the appropriate page (i.e. Main.php or Guest.php)

It is working the way i want it to, although it may not be as efficient as it could be.