[SOLVED] header() function triggered by die()

[ArizonaJohn]

Hello,

 

The code below prints "Topic Declined" if $_POST['name'] contains a porn word from a function called "check_porn_terms." 

 

I would like the code below to do a re-direct to a page called indexdeclined.php (header("Location:indexdeclined.php"); ) if $_POST['name'] contains a porn word.

 

How do I do this? 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

John

 

 

if(!check_porn_terms($_POST['name'])) die("<p class=\"topic2\">Topic Declined.</p>");

[cunoodle2]

In your code you have a "!" at the beginning of your if statement which would tell me if there was NOT a swear word then echo "Topic Declined" to the screen.  Is it supposed to be like that?

 

Can you just do something like this...

<?php

if(check_porn_terms($_POST['name']))
{
echo "Topic declined.  You be redirected in 5 seconds to another page.<br />\n";
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content= \"3;url=http://www.YourSiteHere.com/indexdeclined.php\">";
die();
}

//put everything here that you would like displayed if there was NOT a swear word...

?>

[ArizonaJohn]

Sorry,

 

Here is all the code:

<?php

function check_porn_terms($input){
     $porn_terms = array("porn", "sex", "tits", "cock", "penis", "vagina", "pussy", "itakeithard", "hard_cock", "really_hard_cock", "suckmydickbitch", "fuck"); //add terms here
     foreach($porn_terms as $term){
          if(substr_count($input, $term) > 0) return false;
     }

     return true;
}

if(!check_porn_terms($_POST['name'])) die("<p class=\"topic2\">Topic Declined.</p>");

 

[cunoodle2]

Did you try my code at all?

 

Use this...

<?php

if(!check_porn_terms($_POST['name']))
{
   echo "Topic declined.  You be redirected in 5 seconds to another page.<br />\n";
   echo "<meta http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content= \"3;url=http://www.YourSiteHere.com/indexdeclined.php\">";
   die();
}

//put everything here that you would like displayed if there was NOT a swear word...

?>

[haku]

Meta refreshes are frowned upon by search engines. I would suggest rewriting that as this:

 

if(check_porn_terms($_POST['name']))
{
   header('refresh: 5; url=http://www.example.com');
    echo "Topic declined.  You be redirected in 5 seconds to another page.<br />\n";
  die();
}

//put everything here that you would like displayed if there was NOT a swear word...

?>

 

This will refresh the page in 5 seconds (its the number after 'refresh: ') to example.com. Change this to whatever URL you want them to be redirected to.

[ArizonaJohn]

Thanks for the answers,

 

I ended up going with cunoodle2's response since it worked.  I changed the 3 to 0... and there is still a split second delay.  Is there any way to make the redirect instantaneous?

 

 

[trq]

Yes, just use the header function.

 

if(!check_porn_terms($_POST['name']))
{
   header("Location: http://www.YourSiteHere.com/indexdeclined.php");
   die();
}

[ArizonaJohn]

Thanks, thorpe.  I just remembered that to use the header() function, you also have to put this code at the top of your page:

 

<?php
ob_start();
?>

 

[trq]

No you don't. You just can't output anything to the browser before calling header. If you think about it though, there is no point outputting anything if all your going to do is redirect anyway.

[haku]

Using ob_start() is almost always a sign of bad programming structure/logic. There are exceptions (or it wouldn't exist), but you are better off restructuring your code so that any headers and cookies are set before any output to the browser.