[bens1901]

Hi.

I am playing around with PHP4, and I keep encountering a problem with redirecting the browser to a new page.

In the past, when using ASP or JSP, I would do some business logic in a page and then do a page redirect if necessary. With PHP I've seen code that adjusts the header of the page.

Here is what I'm currently doing...

$theNextPage = "/errorpage.php";
// do some stuff here
if( strlen($myerrormsg) > 0 ) {
header(sprintf("Location: %s", $theNextPage ));

[clam2000]

i know the following works:
[php]
header ("Location:http://domain-here.com/path/to/page.html");
[/php]


but remember, if you have send ANY other data you will get an error that headers have already been sent.

if you need to do that your best bet is with javascript

if you know where the page is don't bother with a printf statement, i can't think of any other reason that wouldn't work

--will
edit: don't automaticly parse url's

[Chiznibitz]

I know where you're coming from man. We java developers instinctively try to use redirects to seperate controller and view. I know the header() function will get you there, but, I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, it's not really the recommended way to handle things with PHP. Like the first reply said, it's a hassle to try to move the redirect to the very beginning of the page or to use output buffering - ob_start() and ob_end_flush().
I've started to simply use includes instead. They're easier and you get access to variables from the controller.