PHP redirection after showing a message

vharishankar · 07-08-2005, 12:27 AM

I have seen this functionality at this forum. After logging in, a message is displayed and the page redirected to the index page.

I would like to know how to achieve this. Unfortunately the header () command fails when there is some page output.

How can I redirect after displaying a success or failure message.

The header statement comes with this warning and no redirection takes place:

Code:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hari/web/links_directory/include/template.php:81) in /home/hari/web/links_directory/register.php on line

Is there any other way to redirect normally? I really don't want to use "include" statement as this may lead to some problems.

deiussum · 07-08-2005, 12:42 AM

To redirect after say 5 seconds, put the following at top of your PHP page, before you've output anything:

header("REFRESH:5;URL=http://redirection.url.com");

It has to be before any HTML has been sent. You can send HTML after the header function is called, however.

Another alternative is to use the equivalent HTML meta tag by putting the following in between the <head></head> tags:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="5" URL="http://redirection.url.com">

vharishankar · 07-08-2005, 01:32 AM

Well. I'm using templating system and all my HTML files are templates. I cannot use the META tags here because the PHP file outputs different HTML files for different contexts.

Is there any more generic way to redirect? I know it's a long shot, but I feel that using the header is a problem because the PHP output is different in different circumstances.

vharishankar · 07-08-2005, 01:39 AM

Scratch the previous message regarding the META tag. This strategy works!

header("REFRESH:5;URL=http://redirection.url.com");

I can call this statement from any place in my PHP file before outputting any content.

Thanks for the help.

kcorkins · 07-10-2005, 07:42 PM

Thanks for the thread! It was exactly what I was looking for!

Runnerdave · 07-11-2005, 07:18 PM

It works perfect in firefox but I noticed that in IE 6 sp2 if I refresh the page before the automatic redirect happens it stays and the redirection is not performed, any solution for this?

kcorkins · 07-12-2005, 07:58 AM

I found this on the php documentation site;

Code:

<?php header("Location:http://www.redirection.url.com/");?>

I put that as the only line in index.php in the root folder where I had moved some pages. No page is displayed, and the browser is automatically redirected.

deiussum · 07-12-2005, 10:40 AM

Yeah, the location option works well too. I typically use that, but in the case of the original poster where you want to display some message before redirecting, it doesn't work so well.

So far as Runner Dave's problem, I'm not sure. You could do what most sites I've seen do and provide a link on the page as well in case the browser doesn't redirect properly. Or just tell your IE users not to refresh the page!

Runnerdave · 07-12-2005, 06:17 PM

hi deiussum I will put the link, thanks a lot it "sort of" solves the problem :-)