Ansego wrote:

> The header has to be at the top of the page? 

Not necessarily.  header() has just to be called before any output is sent.

>                                               why not call it redirect?

Probably because the Location header is part of HTTP[1], and actually,
the redirect is not done by PHP, but by the client.

If you prefer to call redirect($url) nonetheless, you can easily define
your own function:

  function redirect($url) {
    header('Location: '. $url); // further arguments as desired
  }

BTW: the webmaster mailing list is probably not the appropriate place
for such requests/discussions[2].

[1] <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616>
[2] <http://www.php.net/support.php>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker



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