Neither "if" or "else" code running

[andy5000]

I don't know if I have been awake too long and im missing something stupidly obvious, but I cannot work out why this script isn't behaving as expected. I have simplified it down as much as I can in my code yet it is still giving me problems:

 

if (1 == 1) {		
header("location:1.php");
} else {
header("location:2.php");
}

// other code down here

 

When running this, I would expect to be relocated to 1.php, however, my "other code" is running instead. The weird part is that if I do this:

 

if (1 == 1) {		
header("location:1.php");
} else {
header("location:2.php");
}

exit();

// other code down here

 

I do get relocated.

 

 

Im sure its really simple, but I am just lost. I have been hopping in between PHP and Coldfusion all day so I might just be getting some basic syntax wrong.. I don't know. Any help would be very much appreciated!

[DavidAM]

The header() function does NOT end the script. It will continue to run.  If you want to redirect immediately, you need to exit the script immediately.

 

if (1 == 1) {
    header("location:1.php");
    exit();
} else {
    header("location:2.php");
    exit();
}

// other code down here

[andy5000]

Thankyou David,

 

I've been teaching myself PHP for a little while now, but didn't even realise I was supposed to be doing it like this. I think I must have been quite lucky not to have come across this problem before considering that how I always do my relocates!

 

Thanks again - you learn something every day