Can PHP Take The Place Of JavaScript Page Redirects?

[JustinK101]

Hello All,

I am wondering if you guys know of a way to do page redirects with purely php? Currently I do all my redirects with javascript:

[code]

  document.location = 'my_new_url';

[/code]

I do redirects a lot, for example in scripts that preform a delete action of a record in the database. I usually have a link that points to a page of almost purely PHP, which after it does the mysql delete query it simply redirects page to the previous page. I do this a lot.

Firstly, is this bad technique? Do you guys find yourself doing a decent amount of page redirects?

Secondly, is there a solution in php that is easy to do redirects?

Thanks much.

[trillion]

<?php
header('Location: path/to/file.php');
?>

this has to be placed before any visible content

[mainewoods]

[code]header("location: **specifiy full redirect url**");[/code]
-is a better choice than your usage of javascript because it doesn't depend on browser settings to work

[JustinK101]

Yeah that's what I have seen before, but that solution doesnt work for me. It is no good. Often times I do If statements and conditionals and decide to do the redirect depending. Also, often I do work, such as update a database, or create a record in a database, and then want to redirect.

Example:
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0)
{
   echo 'DO JAVA SCRIPT REDIRECT CODE';
}
else
{
   echo 'DO JAVA SCRIPT REDIRECT CODE DIFFERENT PAGE';
}

[michaellunsford]

as long as you don't output anything to the browser before you use the [code=php:0]header[/code] command, you're fine. Your example as written would work.

[JustinK101]

:) LOL Ok my example did'nt show that there is generally HTML above that. Ok, I suppose I have my answer gotta use JavaScript. I understand why PHP can only interact with the header, server sided. Javascript still cant be beat for some features, such as this, and alert(), and some error checking.