Getting re-directed after "Submit"

[chrisj]

I'm using an upload script, that works fine. I simply want to re-direct the user once he selects the Submit button. I was told to add

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

at the bottom of the file, right after: return $message;

Did it. But the user does not get re-directed.

I tried this too, without success:

return $message;
header("Location: http://www.somelocation.com");
echo $message;

Here's the bottom part of the script page. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
If you need the whole page code, let me know.
Thanks.

function upload_file($upload_directory, $upload_uri) {global $account;
        $file_name = $_FILES["userfile"]["name"];
	$file_name = str_replace(" ","_",$file_name);
	$ext=pathinfo($file_name,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
        $file_name = basename($file_name, '.' . $ext);
        $file_path = $upload_directory. $file_name.'~~'. $account->get_user_name().'.'.$ext;

$temporary = $_FILES["userfile"]["tmp_name"];

$result = move_uploaded_file($temporary, $file_path);
if(!chmod($file_path,0777))
$message = "ERROR: A folder to place the files was not found, or the files need to be CHMODed to 777.";
else $message = ($result)?"File has been uploaded." : "An error has occurred.";


return $message;
    header("Location: http://www.somelocation.com");
}
?>

[bpat1434]

return signifies the end of the function. So if you "return" something, then that function won't execute any further than that line. So your header() never gets executed because you return the $message variable first.

So you kind of have to make a choice: return the message and redirect outside the function, or just redirect in the function.

What would probably work is only return on a failure and redirect otherwise. So remove the last "return $message" and just have the header('Location: ....') line in there. Then you just return message if there's an error, and you return where the error happened, not at the bottom of the function.

function upload_file($upload_directory, $upload_uri) {
	global $account;

    $file_name = $_FILES["userfile"]["name"];
$file_name = str_replace(" ","_",$file_name);
$ext=pathinfo($file_name,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
    $file_name = basename($file_name, '.' . $ext);
    $file_path = $upload_directory. $file_name.'~~'. $account->get_user_name().'.'.$ext;

$temporary = $_FILES["userfile"]["tmp_name"];

$result = move_uploaded_file($temporary, $file_path);
if(!chmod($file_path,0777))
	return "ERROR: A folder to place the files was not found, or the files need to be CHMODed to 777.";
else
	{
	if(!$result) return "An error has occurred.";
	}

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