Re: session header issue

On Thursday 31 July 2003 06:39, Sam Folk-Williams wrote: > I've got a site with a login authentication script in a file called > login.php. Every page has a simple session check on top of it, as well > as line that captures the name of the file the user is trying to view. > The idea is that if the user tries to go straight to an inside page > without logging in, they get sent to the login page (index.php) with the Don't you mean they get sent to login.php? > variable $file marking the page they wanted to view. When they log in, > the $file variable is sent to login.php and (if $file is set) login.php > returns them to the page they were trying to view using a simple header > redirect: header("Location: $file"); The Location: header requires a correctly formed URL, ie http://... > Problem: instead of sending them to the page they wanted to view, they > get sent to this URL: login.php?file=/dir/file_name.php?v=123 > > What's going on here? Why doesn't "Location: $file" return the contents > of $file? What do you mean? Have you checked that $file contains what you expect it to contain? Putting $file inside double-quotes doesn't magically transform its contents. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* QOTD: "Unlucky? If I bought a pumpkin farm, they'd cancel Halloween." */