[Resolved] Header Redirect Not Working

fire_cracker

I am attempting to build a simple blog script into my webpage, everything is working fine, except, that the page will not redirect after it finished processing. I'm using header to redirect; however, I am not sending any output prior to the call, nor am I getting any sort of usefull error message. The code is below. If anyone has any ideas I'd be glad to hear them, or if you have a better method for redirecting the user (similar to the way this board does it after a new post), that would also rock. BTW, I know that the whole file may not be relevent to the problem I am facing right now, but perhaps there is some output being sent and I am not seeing it, or any error related to it. Thanks 🙂


<?php

session_start();

//Send the user to the login page, if they aren't logged in
if(!$_SESSION['username']) {
  echo "<center><font size='5' color='red'><b>PLEASE LOG IN</b></font></center>";
  include('./includes/login_form.html');
  exit();
}

//Grab the Session vars
foreach($_SESSION as $key => $value) {
  $key = $value;
}

//Get Included Files Included :)
$include_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/fms/includes/";
$include_config = $include_dir . "config.php";
$include_sql = $include_dir . "sql_connect.php";
require($include_config);
require($include_sql);

//Get the $_POST Variables
foreach($_POST as $key => $value) {
  $key = addslashes($value);
}

$result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO bcd_blog_post VALUES('','$username','$subject','$message',now())");

if($result) {
  header("Location: index.php");
  echo "I'm stuck!";
}
else {
  echo "There was an error inserting your new blog post:<br>" . mysql_error();
}
?>

leatherback

What does the page create on screen?

Does it give you the alternative message, or the message after the redirect command? If it is the alternativbe message, something is wrong in your query (columcount?) and you should add an error message after the query:

or die('Query failed:'.mysql_error());

fire_cracker

Yes, I am getting the alternate message of "I'm Stuck", however, the query appears to be opperating properly, it is adding the information to the db. Adding the "or die() code does not change the result of the script either.

bradgrafelman

Try changing this:

header("Location: index.php");

to a full URL, i.e. http://mysite.com/path/to/index.php

(That's a requirement by RFC standards, though it usually works with relative paths...)

fire_cracker

We are still stuck. Is there a more effective way to redirect the user aside from using the headers? It may be some sort of problem with that I suppose, allthough I have used similar code many times in the past.

fire_cracker

I tried changing the header() redirect to a JavaScript redirect, and I am still not getting anywhere? Could something else in my code possibly be causing the page not to redirect?

fire_cracker

Well, I gave up on doing it all so dynamicly, and just used a standard meta refresh tag, and it worked okay. Now I have a similar redirect like when you post something here.