header issue

[zorgi]

Hi guys

Its me again :)
I have a small problem with redirecting using headers. When I do for example this

[PHP]
header('Location: index.php');
[/PHP]

Everything works fine. User gets redirected and looks at the page I wanted them except that if I had any code after that statement its still gonna be executed. I came up with somewhat sloppy solution of if else blocks and ... well as I said it doesn't look nice. Is there a better way.

Also one more question. Sometime when header like above doesn't work because of necessary outputs to the page I simply do this:

[PHP]
echo "<script language='javascript'>\n";
echo "window.open('".$redirect_url."', '_parent')";
echo "</script>\n";
[/PHP]

It works but also looks bit sloppy to me. Is there better solution to this problem. Thank you in advance for your input.

[Dormilich]

[PHP]header('Location: index.php');
exit;
# further code [/PHP]

[zorgi]

[PHP]header('Location: index.php');
exit;
# further code [/PHP]

Lovely. Thank you :)

[Atli]

As to your other question.

You can use Output Buffering to control exactly when the output is sent.

For example:

<?php
echo "Something very important";
header("Location: index.php");
?>
 

This would cause and error and remain on the same page.
But this:

<?php
ob_start();
echo "Something very important";
header("Location: index.php");
ob_end_flush();
?>
 

would redirect you to "index.php".

Technically the output would still be sent, but you would be redirected before you ever saw it.

[zorgi]

Thank you so much guys. I knew there must be better solution to this and now I know it.