href php redirection help!!

hi, i recently found out my site doesn't work for Linux netscape and a few other non-popular browsers.

so I decided to try and make a script that would redirect the people depending on their browser...

I stick this inside the href tag like this:

<a href="<?php
if ($BROWSER == "MSIE") { echo "site/"; }
if ($BROWSER == "Netscape") { echo "site/"; }
else { echo "site/text-only/"; }
?>">enter</a>

what am I doing wrong? btw...I don't have any real programming experience - just trying to do it off the top of my head and from articles.

Thanks

- ghost

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your script just prints out links , you need to tell the browser to execute them - ie:
if (etc etc ......
<?php echo "<script>window.location.href= "thisdir.html"</script>";?>

etc

Regards



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Simon Wheeler
FirePages -DHTML/PHP/MySQL

fp is right that you can't just print out the links, but using JS to solve the problem isn't a solution as a lot of the browsers you're having problems with won't support that. Use the PHP header() function to do a redirect:

if ($condition==$good_browser)
{
header("Location: site/");
exit;
}
header("location: site/text-only/");
exit

Well, what I am looking for is not a direct "redirection"...
instead, I have a button that they must click to select the specific site they want to go to... and I only need the browser specific stuff for that one button link. There are multiple sites to go to (this page is sort of like a Table of Contents)... and only one site needs the browser specific stuff.

I also need to know the variable names for the Different browsers. I need both IE and Netscape names.

Seeing how this is a preprocessor language, I think that the page should be able to detect the browser...and upon the detection, change the URL that the specific button will go to.

(sorry if this sounds confusing)

Thanks

- ghost

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