PHP Redirect

[gavin.sibley]

Hello,

 

i am trying t set up a redirect depending on the username of the person. I am new to php so not exactly sure how to set it up. i have this so far, what is needed to make this work?

 

<?php

&user = GET_$user_login

header( 'Location: http://www.mydomain.com/[&user]-manager' ) ;

?>

 

thanks,gavin

[.josh]

Where is the user name coming from? It *looks* like maybe you want:

 

$user = $_GET['user_login'];
header( "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/{$user}-manager" ) ;
exit();

 

This assumes that you are receiving the user_login from a GET request like

 

www.yoursite.com/thescriptabove.php?user_login=someuser

 

and it will redirect you to for example:

 

http://www.mydomain.com/someuser-manager

 

 

[gavin.sibley]

What im trying to do is for each user to be redirected to there own homepage when they click the home page button, obviously there user_login is stored in the database so was hoping there was someway such as this to insert the user_login straight into a url redirector. doesnt seem to like the code above though, giving me a 404 error

[gavin.sibley]

Just to add a bit more info, the redirect is working however its not including the user_login in the url so i am ending up with:-

 

mydomain.com/-manager

 

rather than

 

mydomain.com/(user_login)-manager

 

thanks

[Kays]

Verify that $_GET['user_login'] is not empty.

[gavin.sibley]

after looking around a bit (thank you google!) i have found this information that i think may help me, but as i said, having no idea about php really doesnt help!

 

?php global $current_user;

      get_currentuserinfo();

 

      echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";

      echo 'User email: ' . $current_user->user_email . "\n";

      echo 'User first name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname . "\n";

      echo 'User last name: ' . $current_user->user_lastname . "\n";

      echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name . "\n";

      echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";

?>

 

is there anyway of using this to do what im trying to do? to get the user_login?

 

thanks,

gavin

[.josh]

You found that code from google?  How is that relevant to your code?  How does the user login? do you already have a script for that, which works? If so, there should be a session variable with the info for you to use, or else a session variable with an id associated to the user, for you to query your database for the user's name.  I'm starting to get the impression you have some 3rd party script you are trying to tweak...is this the case?

[gavin.sibley]

found a solution for it now so no worries and its sort of half and half im trying to create this redirect script to insert into a wordpress page...