Headers help needed!

[themistral]

Guys, this is driving me mental!

 

Just to let you know, this isn't down to code being sent to the browser before the headers.

 

Basically, I have a form - the form action processes a function which should insert the information into the database and redirect to a thank you page.

 

The info is inserted but the redirect doesn't work...

I have tried hard coding it but I still can't seem to make it work...

 

This is beginning of my page

 

<?php session_start(); ?> 
<?php include('includes/functions.inc.php'); ?>
<?php
// process add review
if (isset($_POST['but_add_review'])) {
funcReviewAdd('http://www.myurl.com/page-name.html');
}

 

The function is

 

function funcReviewAdd($redirect) {
// connect to the database
funcConnect();
// add to the database
the code here works - insert query
// redirect page
header('Location:'.$redirect);
}

 

I have echoed $redirect and is getting the right value parsed, it's just the redirect not working...

 

Please help!!

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Turn on full php error reporting and then check your web server log for errors.

[themistral]

Thanks for the reply! 

 

No errors showing up in the server log.

 

Added

error_reporting(;

to my code but nothing showing up.

 

 

Any other ideas?

 

[Daniel0]

error_reporting( will only show errors of type E_NOTICE (cf. http://php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#errorfunc.constants).

[themistral]

I tried with error reporting 8191 but still got nothing back...

[resago]

try adding exit just to see if its a buffer thing.

 

[haku]

add

 

exit;

 

after

 

header('Location:'.$redirect);

[themistral]

OK tried adding exit.

 

I now get a blank page returned - the same URL as the code, not the redirected URL.

[haku]

You put exit after the redirect right?

[themistral]

I did

 

I put it in the function after

 

header('Location:'.$redirect);
exit;

[brandensmith1]

its exit();

[themistral]

Changed to

 

header('Location:'.$redirect);
exit();

 

and still shows a blank page...

 

I'm going to comment out all functions not required and see if there is a weird problem (maybe whitespace or something) in my functions file.

 

Will let you know what happens!

[linuxlord]

Try to avoid any output[even white spaces] before passing header.

 

else

 

use ob_start() & ob_end_flush()

[Wolphie]

I had this same problem when using headers with sessions.

Try removing session_start(); then trying the re-direct on it's own

[aschk]

What error are you getting? Or is it just not redirecting an all?

Create a page called simple.php and put the following into it (no whitespace please):

 

<?php

// Redirect to google.com
header("Location: http://www.google.com");

?>

[Zane]

to get all errors you need E_ALL

 

error_reporting(E_ALL);

 

 

[Daniel0]

its exit();

 

exit() is a language construct and not a function. Therefore, omission of the brackets is allowed.