Extremely Weird Problem

[stevied27]

I've been working with PHP for a couple years and I've come a long way. I'm building a site right now, and doing something that seems quite basic, yet its not working. Here's my code:

<?

$ziplength = strlen($zipcode) ;
if($ziplength < 5) { $badzip = "Yes" ; }

if($zipcode == "") { header('location: index.php?error=1') ; }
if($badzip == "Yes") { header('location: index.php?error=1') ; }

setcookie('xxxxxxxxx', $zipcode) ;

header('location: categories.php?ziplength=' . $ziplength . '&badzip=' . $badzip . '&') ;

?>

What's weird is that even though both IF statements might be True, the 'headers' associated with them don't work. For some reason, it skips right to the bottom and hits the last header. Then in that header, the ziplength might still be less than 5 and badzip might equal Yes. This seems so simple, but it won't work. Any ideas?

[devinemke]

<?php
$ziplength = strlen($zipcode);
if ($ziplength < 5) {$badzip = 'Yes';} else {$badzip = 'No';} 

if ($zipcode == '' || $badzip == 'Yes') {$url = 'index.php?error=1';}
else {$url = 'categories.php?ziplength=' . $ziplength . '&badzip=' . $badzip . '&';}

header('location: http://www.stevied27.com/' . $url);
exit();
?>

note that you should be feeding an absolute URL to header().

[stevied27]

Tried that, still doesn't work. My relative url's work just fine in other scripts, but I tried this anyway and it didn't matter. Now, using your script, both variables are always True, even when they shouldn't be. Any other ideas? This is extremely werid...not to mention I'm having the same problem on another page on this site.

[Napster]

look into using the ob_start() and ob_end_flush() functions.