redirecting webpages

[turkman]

i built a website on wamp and was using header(Location:index.php); for example to redirect but when i uploaded it to a website this didnt work as info had already been written... so i changed and used

 

echo "<script>location.href='../index.php'</script>.";

 

this worked on the website... but doesnt work on wamp and creates a parse error... as ill be building the site and fixing it locally... ideally id want something that works on both, but this clearly doesnt and i dont understand why ??

[Adam]

The header function does work on both, you just need to use it *before* any output is sent to the browser (i.e. HTML).