Redirect issues

[djw821]

I am trying to redirect from my login script to my members page.  I can't seem to do it. I use this code

 

if($row) {

header('Location: Members.htm');

exit();

 

 

}else{

print '<p><font color = "red" size = "+1">The Username and Password do not match those on file.</font></p>';

 

If I subsitute the header function for a print function

ex if($row{

print '<p>SUCCESS</p>';

 

It will work so I am pretty sure that $row is correct.

 

But if I use the header function I get a blank white screen no error messages or anything.

 

Can some one help me?

 

Thanks

 

[Daniel0]

Do you have display_errors set to on and error_reporting to E_ALL? If not, then you probably won't see the error mentioned here: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95562.0.html

[djw821]

I turned my notices on and I got an output buffering error I will work on that and see what happens, Thanks

[djw821]

I turned on my error reporting and took care of the output buffering issue but still come to a plain white screen. With no errors.

[soycharliente]

What other code do you have above your header() call?

[djw821]

Here is the section of code.

 

$query = "SELECT user_id, first_name FROM registration WHERE user_name ='$un' AND password=PASSWORD('$p')";

$result = @mysql_query ($query);

$row = mysql_fetch_array ($result, MYSQL_NUM);

 

if($row) {

header('Location: Members.htm');

exit();

 

}else{

print '<p><font color = "red" size = "+1">The Username and Password do not match those on file.</font></p>';

 

}

ob_end_clean();

mysql_close();

 

 

 

[soycharliente]

That all looks good to me. Maybe your file isn't Members.htm? Case sensitive? File extension?

 

Try echoing the query to see exactly what it's sending. Maybe it's getting a result,  just not the one you want?

[AdamCox9]

You have to send out the headers BEFORE displaying anything else even a echo " ";

 

Try using this if you have already displayed output:

 

<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" content=\"2; URL=index.php\"> ";

 

[djw821]

I got this figured out thanks for all your help

[azfar siddiqui]

Make sure you are not sending any output to the browser before you are redirecting... it will not redirect.. but it will generate an error..

on the other hand, after redirecting you can do anything you want

[djw821]

What I was doing worng was this:

1

2<?php ob_start;  when I change it to

 

1<?php ob_start; it worked I just needed to mover the ob_start to the very top of the page even though there was nothing there.

[Xajel]

What I was doing worng was this:

1

2<?php ob_start;  when I change it to

 

1<?php ob_start; it worked I just needed to mover the ob_start to the very top of the page even though there was nothing there.

 

that's nothing there is a thing in php, that's a linebreak and this is output so the header wont work

 

in case of header or cookies, no output must be sent before the header or cookies, wether its an echo, a line break or what ever...

 

in your case, starting at the secod line is equals to echo "\n"; so the page has output