I am having the strangest problem.
I have a php page that I am using to accept file upload.

the script to do this is on a page called upload.php

for some reason if i upload the files, everything will work fine
except the header("location:$url"); at the end.
or it seemingly not works... i mean by this that i get a "This page cannot be displayed error" but if i hit F5 for refresh it will take me to the next page.

i tried debugging the old fashioned way, stripping away everything
until i came down to this...

for my upload form.
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method=post>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="addfile">
<input type="file" name="uf[]"><br>
<input type="file" name="uf[]"><br>
<input type="submit" class="submit" value="upload file(s)"><br>
</form>


here is the only code i have on upload.php
<?php
header("location:http://www.yahoo.com");
?>


If i remove the input type="file" from the form... the redirect works fine, like this:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method=post>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="addfile">
<input type="submit" class="submit" value="upload file(s)"><br>
</form>

obviously this is useless.

for some reason the act of passing the input "type=file" into the upload page makes the header function act retarded.

Whats worse is, i have a similar function , working elsewhere on the same server!!
but ive stripped this code down to so little... and it still doesnt work...

anyone know a sure fire way to make the header work everytime?

Hi!

The problem you are experiencing is because headers can only be sent before any output has been made to the browser. Which means if you send any HTML to the browser, the redirect will not work. Headers must be sent before any output to work correct and they do in that case. As you have tried it yourself and said

"If i remove the input type="file" from the form... the redirect works fine"

but if you output HTML, they do not work anymore.

You have two options. Send headers at the start of the file. I think the file will be executed anyway (the rest of the PHP, but not too sure about that). The other option is to do somekind of different redirect (javascript or some other script, which can redirect in between the HTML).

Hope this helps

There is one more thing you could do. That is in php.ini, probably located in /etc directory.

In that file you can configure options for PHP. One of those options in buffer_output or buffer_input. It says in that file, that turning this on, you can send headers even if you have sent any HTML before. But it is a little performance slow downer.

Marghorp