Redirecting to another URL in PHP requires passing the Location header and exiting thereafter:
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<?php function redirect($destination){ header("Location: ".$destination); exit; } ?> |
Though this method does work, I find it rather unclean. So, I prefer specifying the HTTP status code and also returning HTML/JavaScript for redirection. The HTML can be quite using when the page client is on a connection with very limited bandwidth.
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<?php function redirect($destination){ header("HTTP/1.0 302 Found"); header("Location: ".$destination); $html=<<<EOD <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="1;URL=$destination"> <script type="text/javascript"> window.location = $destination; </script> </head> <body> <p>Redirection in progress...</p> <br> If the redirect fails just visit the following URL: <a href="$destination">$destination</a>. </br> </body> </html> EOD; echo $html; exit; } ?> |
