Re: redirecting after login

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Tim Thorburn wrote: > A site I'm working on requires a login screen where various individuals > will log into the site and add information for their various > departments. Rather than setup a different script for each department, I > was hoping to create one script that would either accept or deny a login > based on the username/password stored in a database, then based on the > username/password - redirect the individuals browser to a URL. > > I've got the login part working perfectly, and I can turn the URL into a > link on the page, but I'd rather have the script just automatically forward > the person to the page they're login gives them access to. > > I've tried using header(), but since the redirection takes place about > mid-script, it doesn't work. I've also tried using <meta> tag redirects, > but those don't seem to accept the PHP/MySQL combo. Once they've been redirected, can they just bookmark the resulting page and never have to log in again? miguel