Unfortunately I include the session_start(); method in the file header.php
(because I am checking for a value here to determine whether to show a
logout button or not) therefore I cant do the
<?
if(session_is_registered('userId')) {
header("Location: membersArea.php");
} else {
include("header.php");
?>
at the top of the page because the server will not be able to get hold of
the session to see if session_is_registered('userId') evaluates to true!
I suppose I could remove session_start(); from the header.php and hard code
it at the top of every page !
Matt.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: "Matthew Oatham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: server side redirects
> > guess this is because I have already output html before this php command
>
> Exactly right. Why don't you use the header() function at the top of
> the page before sending any other headers? It will definitely work that
> way. And if the problem is because you're doing some evaluation down in
> your page, take that evaluation out and bring it up above the headers,
> as well. I usually do all my page processing and evaluation at the top
> of my pages before I write any HTML.
>
> As for the meta redirect, I'm not sure of any problems there (others
> will likely know better than I), but I think it's best to have your
> application do the redirect from the server-side rather than the
> client-side. If your evaluation is high enough in the page to know to
> print the meta redirect tag, then you can probably afford to move it
> just a few lines higher than the <html> tag and use header() instead.
> Doing things on the server-side is always best and more secure;
> end-users are less likely to be able to screw things up.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ben Ramsey
> http://benramsey.com
> http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/People/BenRamsey
>
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