Launching static HTML page from PHP

[Anon]

I am parsing input from an html form in PHP. Then, based on what the input is I want to launch an existing static HTML page from my PHP session. I.e. I prefer not to build it from within PHP using print or echo statements but to launch an already existing html file from my disk. How do I do that?

Guiseppe

[Anon]

I would recommend using the header() function with the Location header. That sounds like what you're after.

Example:

(code to parse and secure input first)

if (certaininput) {
header("Location: http://www.page.here");
} elseif (otherinput) {
header("Location: http://www.someotherpage.here");
}

..and so on.

The same caveat applies as always, though - when sending headers to the browser, be sure no other output (HTML or otherwise) is passed to the browser before those header lines.