Page redirection

[agmorgan]

Can somone point me in the right direction..

I am writing a little section of a home made shopping basket. I collect information and put it in the basket / db. However, I want to update into a new database the final order as and when I click a button that directs the usuer to Pay Pal.

My thought was to allow the user to click a button that sent them to a new page that updates the final order database and then redirects to PayPal the information required for billing without the user having to press another button.

Would this be a sensible wat to go about it ? If so how do I do a page redirection, I can't find this in the books..Or is there a better way of doing it.

thanks

Andrew

[etully]

Assume, for example, that you need to pass Pay Pal your account ID and a total.

Also assume that you have a button called "Checkout" on every page that links to this file for that "one last database update before I send them to Pay Pal".

<?php
// open database
// update datbase
// read total from database if necessary.  Store in a variable called $total
// close database
header('Location: http://www.paypal.com/filename.aspx?id=12345&total=$total');
?>