Redirect Blank Search to Search Page

fugazzi007

I'm trying to redirect a blank search page to the search page, or at least have a functionality like that.

Right now, I can get it to either run a blank search and retrieve everything in the mysql db, or I can get it to run an error and then exit the script.

I tried

if ($trimmed == "") {
header ("Location: [url]www.google.com[/url]")
}

But this keeps giving me the following error.

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /web/searchpage.php:4) in /web/searchpage.php on line 42

devinemke

read up on headers

ozzythaman

you can't output anything before your headers (including html tags and blank space) if you want to use them, go to line 4 and clean up

header should look like this:

header("location: http://www.google.com");

+: you cant open a new window with header redirection, that wouldn't be a redirection..

dalecosp

Originally posted by ozzythaman
you can't output anything before your headers (including html tags and blank space) if you want to use them, go to line 4 and clean up

header should look like this:

header("location: http://www.google.com");

Of course, there's some question as to whether he coded it wrongly, or the board did it for him.....

Ah, nah, scratch that. "_blank", eh? Tsk, tsk....

fugazzi007

Originally posted by dalecosp
Of course, there's some question as to whether he coded it wrongly, or the board did it for him.....

Ah, nah, scratch that. "_blank", eh? Tsk, tsk....

It was the board php tags that did it. It looks like:

if ($trimmed == "") {
header ("Location: www.google.com");
}

My line 4 is a header.php include. I'm still looking into this.