lame question re URL

[artworthy]

what is the function for automatically going to another page on your site or any url for that matter?

 

thanx

[trq]

header.

[artworthy]

I tried :

$url="myHome.php"

        header($url); 

 

error returned. What am I missing?

 

Thanx again.

[MadTechie]

location

$url="myHome.php"
header("Location: $url");

 

EDIT: as a note it is the one of the first example in the php manual for header

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); /* Redirect browser */

/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>

[trq]

If someone posts a link to the manual you should take the time to actualy read it.

[artworthy]

Still no luck. marked up a login script all lines are working except:

 

$url="http://www.ipingus.com/myFactors.php";

header("Location: $url"); 

 

I get on the browser page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /hermes/bosweb/web255/b2558/sl.artworthy/public_html/iPingus/scripts/login.php on line 57 (this line is the header() function)

 

Thanks

(btw, will read every reply notwithstanding dsl outages)

 

 

[MadTechie]

well sorry to say this but

<?php
$url="http://www.ipingus.com/myFactors.php";
header("Location: $url");  
?>

 

works fine!

[artworthy]

yes, it does work... but not in my script for login. Just have to work on it more. Thanks!

[MadTechie]

see here

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,37442.0.html

[artworthy]

thanks, but it seems the issue had to do with the db PW not reseting as I thought it did. My hosting service forced a reset. But login script still not doing the job:

<?php

// logon script

if ($_POST['email'] != "") {

 

include_once ('./scripts/connect_to_mysql.php');

 

$email = $_POST['email'];

$pass = $_POST['pass'];

 

$email = strip_tags($email);

$pass = strip_tags($pass);

$email = mysql_real_escape_string($email);

$pass = mysql_real_escape_string($pass);

$email = eregi_replace("`", "", $email);

$pass = eregi_replace("`", "", $pass);

 

$pass = md5($pass);

 

//make query

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE email='$email' AND password='$pass' AND email_activated='1'");

$login_check = mysql_num_rows($sql);

 

if($login_check > 0){

 

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){

 

        $id = $row["id"]; 

        session_register('id');

        $_SESSION['id'] = $id;

     

    $mem_name = $row["mem_name"]; 

        session_register('mem_name');

        $_SESSION['mem_name'] = $mem_name;

     

    $email = $row["email"]; 

        session_register('email');

        $_SESSION['email'] = $email;

       

 

        mysql_query("UPDATE members SET last_log_date=now() WHERE id='$id'");

       

        $my_msg = "You're logged on";

header("Location: http://www.ipingus.com/myFactors.php");

        print "return_msg=$my_msg&id=$id&mem_name=$mem_name";

    } // close while

 

 

} else {

$my_msg = "no_good";

    print "return_msg=$my_msg";

exit();

}

 

 

}// close if post

?>

[trq]

For starters, session_register has long been depricated and cannot be used in conjunction with the $_SESSION array.

[corbin]

This is randomness and me just being picky, but if I remember correctly (this is directed up a couple posts), the Location HTTP header should have a full URL, not just a path relative to the web root of the current site.  Or did I dream that at some point...  Hrmmm....  Off to google now...

[MadTechie]

if I remember correctly (this is directed up a couple posts), the Location HTTP header should have a full URL, not just a path relative to the web root of the current site.

 

 

Your very correct (as always) corbin, most browsers will fix this, and allow you to do it, thats why people (myself included) are lazy and use that shortcut,

 

<?php
    header("Status: 301"); # 301 Moved Permanently / 302 Temporary moved
    header("Location: http://{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}/home.php");
    exit;
?>

As a side note google likes 301 status when things are moved but doesn't like 302 (or thats what i read somewhere..awaits corbin responces lol)