[RESOLVED] Problem with header("Location: ...");

benbox

Hey all,

I've just come accross an issue which has only just started happening for no apparent reason! I may have changed something to make it not work, but not to my knowledge as I've only been editing bits which haven't caused it before.

Basically, in my code I have a class with a function, containing the following code:

            header("Location: ".$this->page_login."?redirect=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
            //print $this->page_login."?redirect=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
            exit;

This is in an else statement, which I know works - because if I uncomment the print line in the code above, it's printed out.. so the header() function is being passed over, without redirecting..

I know header() doesn't work if something has already been printed to the page, however in this case - nothing is, and I'm sure you receive an error talking about that case if it occurs anyway?

Are there any common reasons to why this would not work?

When placing the below in a file, it works.. so header() work in a usual case..

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

Any help would be much appreciated 🙂
Thanks~

devinemke

is $this->page_login."?redirect=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] a valid URL?

btw: change exit; to exit();

benbox

$this->page_login."?redirect=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is a valid URL, yes. It's confusing as it was working fine before, redirecting if needed.. if not ignore the redirect.

If I go directly to that page, and submit it the script works as expected (logging you in).. but trying to use header() to redirect fails 🙁 (even though it worked in the same place, in the same code before!)

Thanks for spotting the brackets on the exit, changed that now.. even though it didn't error without them.. should it?

benbox

ok, resolved 😃

I was just talking to someone, and they mentioned white space between ?> <? tags causing header() to fail too.. and there we have it, a new line after the ?> on one of the files being included before that line was run..

Annoying lil problem, only several hours and put me way off track lol..