How to go to a new page

brdnwi

hey guys.

I have a small script. When a user and password is submitted I want the page to go to another page. I have a form that is posting to itself. It makes sure the information is correct, then if it is correct I want it to go to my index.php page.

Thanks

gardnc

Most trouble free approach is to do this as soon as the user is verified:

echo "<script>self.location = 'index.php';</script>";

but you can also use:

header ("Location: index.php");

but if you have any thing being sent back to the browser including even one line of white space at the top of the page you will get http headers already sent errors with this one..

I prefer the first - javascript - solution.

kona72

🙂 This was perfect timing. I was just about to come on the board and post a very similar question but now my problem is solved ....

THANKS!!!!

jkurrle

One more alternative is to use an HTML redirect. It does not have the limitations of the header command and cannot be disabled by the user disabling scripting, like the javascript command. It looks like this:

The zero value in the content section indicates to refresh immediately. If a number other than zero is there, that indicates how many seconds to wait before refreshing to the next screen.

This is a little trickier, in that placing quotes in the wrong places can cause the page to hang, especially if the user has some sort of popup/script blocker loaded. Also, an HTML page redirect is the slowest of page redirect methods. If coded correctly, it seems to be the most stable and trouble free, however.