Qualified redirection?

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March 11th, 2013, 09:01 PM

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PHP5 - Qualified redirection?

Please excuse the simplicity and likely stupidity of this question, but I can't figure it out anywhere, so I'll ask.

What I want to do is make a php script that will automatically redirect the user to a different page if certain qualifications are met. The problem is, I can't find a command to automatically initiate a link besides when the page initiates. How would I do that?

March 11th, 2013, 09:08 PM

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"Initiate a link"?

A redirection is as simple as

PHP Code:


		
			
 header("Location: /where/you/want/them/to/go");

exit;

but you must not have outputted anything by that point.

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March 11th, 2013, 09:55 PM

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To expand on requnix, you can have PHP code to do the evaluation before header(); Just not any code that generates HTML output.

March 12th, 2013, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by acray

To expand on requnix, you can have PHP code to do the evaluation before header(); Just not any code that generates HTML output.

not even a "space"

March 12th, 2013, 08:44 AM

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Not even necessarily any CODE before the header(). If you have an include file that ends in "?> " then you'll get those 2 spaces in your output and header() won't work.

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