I like this approach. I may try that out sometime, because in this case I
didn't really want any output before the header. All the scripting work was
to be done before any output hit the browser window anyways.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Edmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP Helplist Windows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Max Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 6:21 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Redirect browser to another URL?
> if ( $FormIsSent == "My-String ) {
> process form
> header( "Location: url" );
> }
> else {
> display form
> <input type = "hidden" name = "FormIsSent" value = "My-String">
> }
>
> I use this technique on my sites all the time. The only restriction is you
> can't have any output before the header. If there is an error in the form,
> store it in an error variable:
>
> $error[NameForError] = "Problem with form";
>
> then use a foreach to get the values back out
>
> if ( count( $error ) ) {
> foreach ( $error as $key=>$value ) {
> print "Error with $key - $value<br>";
> }
> }
> else {
> header( "location: http://youurl.com/formsuccess.php"; );
> exit;
> }
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 5:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Redirect browser to another URL?
>
>
> > You know, this is exactly what happened to me. I was trying to design a
> > comments page for a weblog to open in a popup. The page had a submission
> > form that would submit back to itself. 'course, I was banging my head on
> the
> > wall trying to come up with a way to get the page to detect whether it
had
> > received a form submission and write the comments to a comment file, and
> > then include the comment file with the form afterwards. I kept coming up
> > with the results of fopen(), fputs(), fflush(), and fclose() coming back
> as
> > false, which equals failed. I eventually did go to a separate page to do
> the
> > file writing, and that page finishes up with a 1-second delay using the
> > javascript setTimeout() for this command in a standalone function:
> >
> > echo "location.replace('blogcomments.php?target=".$target."');\n";
> >
> > Inelegant, but it works. I haven't had too much experience with the
header
> > function, and knowing how long it took me to bang this one out, I might
> set
> > something on fire trying it :)
> >
> > Anyone else had any fun with this issue?
> >
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Reply-To: "Jack Kelly Dobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: "Jack Kelly Dobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:19:30 -0600
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Redirect browser to another URL?
> >
> > Thanks for all the help guys.
> >
> > My problem, as most of you figured, is that my script has a form in it
> that
> > re-runs itself when the form is submitted so there is only one script
> > including the form and all the validation for the form. If the
validation
> is
> > successful it sends you to a different page depending on the information
> > posted in the form. There was therefore no way I could get the header()
to
> > be at the top of the returned data.
> >
> > I ended up using:
> >
> > if ($condition) {
> > print("<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>window.location='" . $url .
> > "'</SCRIPT>");
> > }
> >
> > A rather elegant solution I've decided.
> >
> > Oh, and FYI to all you IIS users out there... (At least I'm assuming
it's
> > IIS and not the Windows platform itself. I'd be interested to know what
> > Windows users running Apache are experiencing).
> >
> > I didn't have this problem with my script until I migrated it to a
> > Linux/Apache platform.
> >
> > I assume that means that when I was doing it the original way that I had
> > multiple sets of header information and no telling what else being sent
> back
> > to the browser and IIS wasn't producing any error. Anyone using IIS and
> the
> > header(location: '') function might want to make sure they aren't
exposing
> > data they didn't mean to.
> >
> > j-
> >
> >
> >
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