Couldn't you just echo the Javascript Alert out instead of closing the PHP tag?
Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2010, at 3:35 AM, imran shafiq <jibreel_a...@yahoo.com> wrote: hi experts if a alert use before header() use in a function like this: e.g. function goto_page() { if(.............) { .................... <? alert("Error:............"); <?php header("abc.php"); } } alert not execute. why? Imran Shafiq Khan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]