any body have idea about diff in window.loaction & header of php

[2291980]

Hello

can any body tell me the dff between
function redirect($url)
{
echo "<script>";
echo "window.location='".$url."'";
echo "</script>";
}

and

header("Location $url")

syntex belong to php

[Ian Collins]

2291980 wrote:

Hello

can any body tell me the dff between
function redirect($url)
{
echo "<script>";
echo "window.location='".$url."'";
echo "</script>";
}

and

header("Location $url")

syntex belong to php

Then why not ask on comp.lang.php?

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Ian Collins.

[pcx99]

2291980 wrote:

Hello

can any body tell me the dff between
function redirect($url)
{
echo "<script>";
echo "window.location='".$url."'";
echo "</script>";
}

and

header("Location $url")

syntex belong to php

The first will redirect the visitor only if they have javascript
enabled. The second will redirect all visitors regardless of if they
have scripting enabled or not.
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