Using PHP to load another page or html page

[Fish44]

Ive got a PHP script, which if it ends correctly, i want load another
PHP file or an HTML page automatically, ie without user intervention.
The new page shoud replace the current page on the browser. Is there a
PHP command or function which does this?

Thanks,

[Peter van Schie]

Fish44 schreef:

Ive got a PHP script, which if it ends correctly, i want load another
PHP file or an HTML page automatically, ie without user intervention.
The new page shoud replace the current page on the browser. Is there a
PHP command or function which does this?

Try something like this:

header('Location: page.php');

HTH.
Peter.
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http://www.phpforums.nl

[Steve]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:10:24 -0800, Fish44 wrote:

Ive got a PHP script, which if it ends correctly, i want load another
PHP file or an HTML page automatically, ie without user intervention.
The new page shoud replace the current page on the browser. Is there a
PHP command or function which does this?

Thanks,

header ("location: <new url>");

[burke]

Fish44 wrote:

Ive got a PHP script, which if it ends correctly, i want load another
PHP file or an HTML page automatically, ie without user intervention.
The new page shoud replace the current page on the browser. Is there a
PHP command or function which does this?

Thanks,

headers will work fine unless you've already sent data to the user, in
which case you'll need to use Javascript.

&lt;script type="text/javascript">
location.replace("new_url");
&lt;/script>

That should work, but unless you can't, use the PHP header modification.

Burke

[Fish44]

Tried the Header option first but could not get it to work,

code ---------------
83 echo( $tempName ."<br>" ."You are now logged in. <br>");
84 header(Location:"http://www.mitas.ie/");
85 exit;
code end---------

My browser tells me that i have an error on that line.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in c:\Apache\htdocs\login.php
on line 84

Apologies guys but im pretty new at php.

[burke]

Fish44 wrote:

Tried the Header option first but could not get it to work,

code ---------------
83 echo( $tempName ."<br>" ."You are now logged in. <br>");
84 header(Location:"http://www.mitas.ie/");
85 exit;
code end---------

My browser tells me that i have an error on that line.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in c:\Apache\htdocs\login.php
on line 84

Apologies guys but im pretty new at php.

That's perfectly alright, we're all new at some point, I know I still am! ;)

You'll want to have the whole parenthesized part in quotes, like so:

header("Location: http://www.mitas.ie/");

....and that should do it.

The reason is that you're sending the browser the HTTP header "Location:
http://mitas.ie/", which tells it that the location it should be going
to is mitas.ie.

Good Luck!

Burke

[burke]

Fish44 wrote:

Tried the Header option first but could not get it to work,

code ---------------
83 echo( $tempName ."<br>" ."You are now logged in. <br>");
84 header(Location:"http://www.mitas.ie/");
85 exit;
code end---------

My browser tells me that i have an error on that line.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in c:\Apache\htdocs\login.php
on line 84

Apologies guys but im pretty new at php.

Sorry, I should have noticed this before.

You can't send any output to the client (#83), and *then* send extra
headers (#84).

The reason is this: When you send your first output (probably your first
html block or echo statement), your server sends HTTP headers, which
tell the browser about the page it's downloading. HTTP headers are only
downloaded once, just before the real transmission starts.

So when you use header(), you're actually sending your own custom HTTP
headers, but this has to be the first thing you send, otherwise PHP will
yell at you, because when you called echo(), it started transmitting
data, which makes any proceeding calls to header() non-functional.

So what do you do?

three options:

1) scrap any output (ie. line #83) and just send the header.

2) use a meta-refresh -- you'll have to ask someone else about this,
I've never done it.

3) use Javascript instead
You can do a javascript redirect after the browser has already loaded
content. Just insert this code:

<script>
<!--
location.replace("http://mitas.ie");
-->
</script>

This will make the browser instantaneously go to the URL.

Here's the downside to javascript: If someone has Javascript disabled in
their browser, they do nothing, They just sit there, waiting for the
page to change. The solution is to provide a link as well.

I would recommend just dropping all the echoes and html, and just
sending the header.

Hope I haven't just confused you -- I'm pretty sure I've written this
with enough convolution to confuse myself.

Burke

[Fish44]

No u havent confused me (too much). I'm already out of the 'header'
option, by the time i get to line 83, since the page is a login one,
and html has already been generated before the user presses the send
button which posts the data to the sever using php.

Ive used the javascript as follows

code-------------------------

if ($row["UserPass"]=="$Pass1")
{

echo( $tempName ."<br>" ."You are now logged in. <br>");
echo("<a href=\"some url\">go somewhere</a>");
echo("<script>
<!--
location.replace(\"some url\");
-->
</script>");
end code------------------.

So if the java fails, then the link is presented. Think this is a good
compromise

Many Thanks,

Fish44

[blackghost]

I add that no header information should be written before the
header('Location : page.php');