[RESOLVED] Header values

SoulAssassin

I have a page which goes to another page after transaction finished, with a header like this:

header("Location: mypage.php");

How do I put values behind it?
I tried this, but it doen't work:

header("Location: mypage.php?value1=$value1&value2=$value2");

Can anyone help?

Installer

It works for me. In what way doesn't it work for you?

bradgrafelman

Other than the fact that RFC documents state that the Location header should contain a full URI (e.g. http://mysite.com/path/to/mypage.php), it might be that spaces and whatnot are breaking the URL. Try echo'ing out that string first. If you're not sure what to look for, paste the string so we can see it.

If you're unsure of whether or not these variables will contain special characters (percent sign, spaces, etc.) - it's best to encode them anyway, using something like [man]urlencode/man.

NogDog

$queryString = sprintf('value1=%s&value2=%s', urlencode($value1), $urlencode($value2));
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/mypage.php?$queryString");

SoulAssassin

Thanks guys, seems like it's working perfectly parsing the values like this:

header("Location: mypage.php?value1=$value1&value2=$value2");

I made a Syntax error, but now we all know.
Thanks for you response.

bradgrafelman

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