question about page redirection or reload

[greedyisg00d]

Hi I am just a bit confused of what us the best way to reload or redirect a page in php. Usually I used header function for example

header('location:schedulelist.php');

My next question is it needed to include the full url of the page for example http://localhost/schedulelist/login.php or I can just use the page url only which is schedulelist.php.

The reason why I am asking is that I am currently testing through localhost and since the domain name will be change upon deployment, I do not want my visitors to encounter broken links in navigating my page.

Thanks

[Krik]

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

Use it to get the root directory

[NogDog]

While most browsers seem to work OK with relative URLs like that in a redirect, the HTTP-1.1 specification says that a Location header should use a full URI.

<?php
$base_url = sprintf(
   'http%s://%s/',
   (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'off') ? 's' : '',
   $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
);
header('Location: ' . $base_url . 'sub_directory/file_name.php');

PS: @ krik: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] will give the local file system path on the host, not the host portion of a URI that would direct a HTTP request to that directory.