redirection

Anon

Hi everybody,

I want to ask is the a php function that takes page url and redirects browser to it.

thanks

jcleary

There is no php funcion, you'll have to put this at the top of your output

echo "Location: http://www.whatever.com"

If there is any text outputted to the document before this, then it won't work.

John

[deleted]

use this:
header ("Location: http://www.bla.com");

Anon

I am a newbie my self and have never ever gotten or seen that header thing work as I thought it was suppose to - if you get it to work send me a snippet - in the mean time i have been using this java redirect and as far as i can tell theres nothing wrong with it.

function redirect($address,$delay=0)
{
echo "<script language=javascript>\n";
echo "setTimeout(\"window.location='$address';\",$delay);\n";
echo "</script>\n";
}

Anon

Use header(Location :"") functions This works fine only if U are not doing a print or echo before.

Anon

Just a friendly correction:

That's javascript, not java. There is a world of difference between the two.

hawleyj

As stated many times before, the header(Location:""); works fine, do it before outputting anything to the browser, you can do all the script you want, just don't do an echo or print or send the <head> tag to the browser.

The problem with using Javascript (or any other client side script for that matter) to do a redirect is that some folks simply turn it off, and then you're stuck. If you do use it, you'll need to have a back up plan, and unfortunately you won't be able to use the header() function to do it because you've already sent a stream to the browser to write the Javascript.

HTH

Jim Hawley