Redirecting a page during an xmlRequest script

[mherman3]

I have a page that sends a request to another PHP page on my site.
If I try and set the header in the page that is being called, with
header(Location: ...), the site doesn't get redirected like I'd like it
to, it just writes a response to the original page. The response that
it writes is the HTML of the page that I'd like the site to be
redirected to.
Is there a way that I can redirect from the script that is being called
through an xmlRequest?
Thanks a lot for any help.

[Rik]

mh******@gmail.com wrote:

I have a page that sends a request to another PHP page on my site.
If I try and set the header in the page that is being called, with
header(Location: ...), the site doesn't get redirected like I'd like
it to, it just writes a response to the original page. The response
that it writes is the HTML of the page that I'd like the site to be
redirected to.
Is there a way that I can redirect from the script that is being
called through an xmlRequest?

This is logical, and has more to do with javascript then PHP:
1. You make a request using js.
2. Requested page is a PHP-script.
3. PHP-script answers that requests should be redirected to other page.
4. javascript requests the page where it is redirected to, as it should, and
prints it on the current page.

If there is a possibility you get content, and not just redirects, from the
PHP page, ask in a javascript group how to achieve this.

If the request is dependant on other javascript actions, ask in a javascript
group how to achieve this.

If the script in questions only redirects, and the request isn't dependant
on other js actions/functions: don't use javascript, just link to the
script.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[ImOk]

Are you by any chance writing anything prior to the header()?

Even a blank line prior would invalidate the header() and the bnrowser
would just display it.

[Herman]

So then is this script illegal? If so, how do you redirect a page after
you check to see if the user is logged in?

<?php

if ($_SESSION['cmpid'] == '')
header('Location: http://campaigns.hooplah.ca/Host/noCampaign.htm');
else
$cmpid = $_SESSION['cmpid'];

?>

[dimo414]

That scropt looks legal, but you have to make sure it comes before
ANYTHING being written or sent to the browser.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Herman wrote:

So then is this script illegal? If so, how do you redirect a page after
you check to see if the user is logged in?

<?php

if ($_SESSION['cmpid'] == '')

Use isset() for safe.

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