header () problem (

[Anon]

Hi

I have a problem with the loading of a page through the header function it seems.
If people login and their username is right the following file sends them a cookie and then redirects them to my.php. But my.php always gets stuck in the browser. It appears in the Address line of the browser but does not load the page. I have to go to the address line and hit enter. Then it loads the page. Am I missing something in the following file ?

<PRE>

<?php

require ("src/config.inc");

// Nothing is in the config file that would
//create a header error

$db = mysql_connect ("localhost", "user", "pass")
or die ("bla bla");

mysql_select_db ("db", $db);
$query = mysql_query("select * from my_user where username = '$username' AND password = '$password'");

$result = mysql_num_rows($query);

// User does not exist

if ($result == 0)
{

mysql_close();

echo "<FONT COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><DIV ALIGN=\"center\">Bla Bla</DIV></FONT>";

}

// User exists

else
{
$visitor = $username;
$datelog = date("YmdHis",time()+21600);

SetCookie("visitor",$visitor,time()+2864000);
SetCookie("lastlog",$datelog,time()+2864000);

header("Location: my.php");
exit;
}
?>

</PRE>

Thanks for any hint

[mithril]

Try:

header("Location: /relative/path/to/my.php");
exit();

-geoff

[Anon]

i had the same prob. it seems that if you redirect a user by using the header() function right after using the setcookie() function, the cookie just doesn't get set!! don't know what to do to get around that but to use meta tags that i very much HATE.
Good luck,
dimitris

JoJo wrote:

Hi

I have a problem with the loading of a page through the header function it seems.
If people login and their username is right the following file sends them a cookie and then redirects them to my.php. But my.php always gets stuck in the browser. It appears in the Address line of the browser but does not load the page. I have to go to the address line and hit enter. Then it loads the page. Am I missing something in the following file ?

<PRE>

<?php

require ("src/config.inc");

// Nothing is in the config file that would
//create a header error

$db = mysql_connect ("localhost", "user", "pass")
or die ("bla bla");

mysql_select_db ("db", $db);
$query = mysql_query("select * from my_user where username = '$username' AND password = '$password'");

$result = mysql_num_rows($query);

// User does not exist

if ($result == 0)
{

mysql_close();

echo "<FONT COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><DIV ALIGN=\"center\">Bla Bla</DIV></FONT>";

}

// User exists
....