redirecting the form afterchecking

Anon

Hi
Anybody can sort out this. I have a signup form. when the user enter the values[user id and password], it the entered values are correct after the varification to the database it has to redirect to another form. otherwise it should stay in the same form. if anybody knows this pls help me.
thanks in advance
nsj

yelvington

Look up header() in the documentation.

Anon

<?php
//if (the provided values are right) than
header("Location: another_form.php");
//else
header("Location: $PHP_SELF");
?>

🙂

or smth like this i guess,

Luck,
ZBoris

Anon

hi,
Thanks for the reply. if i am giving the a site address that is working perfectly. but if i am giving a php file there that is not going. what is the wrong. i have to add anything with the post method in the form. pls help me.

thanks in advance
nsj

yelvington

Post an example of your code.

Anon

<?PHP
function printHeader() {
echo '
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<head>
<title>Login Screen</title>
</head>

<body>
';

}

function printform() {
printHeader();

echo '
<form action="signup-1_test.php?op=login" method="post" enctype="mimetype" target="" title="">
<div align="center"><p>
<p> </p>
<h4><font face="Courier New"> </font></h4>
<table width="30%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" height="51">
<div align="center"><b>
New User ? <a href="MJscript.htm" target="_parent" name="Signup">Sign
up now!</b></a><br>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="47%">
<div align="right"><b>Username : </b></div>
</td>
<td width="53%">
<input type="text" name="user">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="right"><b>Password :</b> </div>
<div align="center"> </div>
</td>
<td>
<input name="pass" type="password" >
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div align="center">
<input align="center" checked maxlength="15" name="SignUP" size="15" type="submit" value="Sign In">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<p></p>
<p>&nbsp;
<p> <b> </b>

</div>
</form>
';
}
/function for varifying the user id and password is correct to database based on the values
which we got from the html form"/
function checkUser() {
global $user,$pass;

include('adodb.inc.php');
ADOLoadCode("mysql");
$connection = NewADOConnection();
$connection->Connect("localhost","","","testdatabase");
$sql_result = $connection->Execute("SELECT * FROM employee WHERE id='$user' AND password='$pass'" ) or die("could not connect the database");
$temp_count=$sql_result->RecordCount();

if ($temp_count>0)
{
/if the user id and password is correct it should redirect to this form"/
// Header("Location: http://php.net/");

Header("Location: http://localhost:/usr_option.php");
 }

else
{
/if it is not exixting just send and invalid user message and stay in the same form/
Header("Location: http://localhost:/signup-1_test.php/");
}
}

if(isset($op)) {
switch ($op) {
case 'login':
checkUser();
break;
default:
printform();
break;
}
}
else {
printform();
}

echo '
</body>

Steve Yelvington wrote:

Post an example of your code.

yelvington

Why do you have a colon in the redirect url after the hostname?

Header("Location: http://localhost:/usr_option.php");

Also, are you checking this with a Web browser on the same machine that the server is running on? From the point of view of the client, "localhost" means the client and not the server.

This should be adequate:

header('Location: /usr_option.php');

Anon

thanks steve. my server and client in the same machine. but the probs is if i am giving a valid site address[url] it is working. instead of the if i am giving the php file that is not working. could u pls tell me what it is.
thanks
nsj

Anon

Thanks steve. I got it. it is working perfectly. thanks for u'r real help.
bye
nsj