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[alain dhaene]

Hi,

What's wrong with that?

I have a variable

$order_nummer = "C.45";

Then I redirect to

header('Location: xmlorderon.php?order_id=$order_nummer');

but I my location bar I see:

http://localhost/pcGebruik/files/xmlorderon.php?order_id=$order_nummer
thx
Alain

[Jerry]

Use double quotes instead.
" instead of ' in your header argument.
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:24:53 +0100, "alain dhaene"
<a.******@instruct.be> wrote:

Hi,

What's wrong with that?

I have a variable

$order_nummer = "C.45";

Then I redirect to

header('Location: xmlorderon.php?order_id=$order_nummer');

but I my location bar I see:

http://localhost/pcGebruik/files/xmlorderon.php?order_id=$order_nummer
thx
Alain

[Pedro Graca]

alain dhaene wrote:

I have a variable

$order_nummer = "C.45";

Then I redirect to

header('Location: xmlorderon.php?order_id=$order_nummer');

but I my location bar I see:

http://localhost/pcGebruik/files/xmlorderon.php?order_id=$order_nummer

The contents of single quotes are taken literally (with two exceptions).

echo 'the variable a holds $a'; // taken literally
echo 'it\'s a exception'; // the \' is taken as a single '
echo 'the other exception is \\ a single backslash';
So to have your header() do what you want either use double quotes
(which interpolate much more than single quotes) or concatenate the
contents of $order_nummer to the rest of the URL:

header('Location: xmlorderon.php?order_id=' . $order_nummer);

Better yet is to use urlencode() for the $order_nummer:

header('Location: xmlorderon.php?order_id=' . urlencode($order_nummer));
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[Matthias Esken]

Pedro Graca <he****@hotpop.com> schrieb:

Better yet is to use urlencode() for the $order_nummer:

header('Location: xmlorderon.php?order_id=' . urlencode($order_nummer));

And even better would be the use of a valid syntax for the location.

header('Location: http://www.example.com/xmlorderon.php?order_id=' .
urlencode($order_nummer));

According to http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php HTTP/1.1
requires an absolute URI as argument to Location: including the scheme,
hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. So
with the short version it might work on some clients and fail on others
and that's not what you want. :-) Use the correct version and it will
run anywhere.

Regards,
Matthias

[Pedro Graca]

Matthias Esken wrote:

And even better would be the use of a valid syntax for the location.

header('Location: http://www.example.com/xmlorderon.php?order_id=' .
urlencode($order_nummer));

Right. Thank you for the correction.

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) says the same thing about the
Location: header:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/....html#sec14.30
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[Pedro Graca]

Pedro Graca wrote:

Right. Thank you for the correction.

Where it is written "correction", please read "revision and update"
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