Re: simple-ish question but something i never knew

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 10:45, Zareef Ahmed wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com> > To: "Aaron Koning" <aaronkoning@gmail.com> > Cc: "PHP-General" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:07 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP] simple-ish question but something i never knew > > > > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 03:01, Aaron Koning wrote: > > > My experience was with the Location keyword, it might work better with > the > > > Redirect keyword in the header function. I stopped using header and > Location > > > after a few problems and <meta> has never failed for me. MHO. > > > > > What kind of problems did you have? I've never experience a problem with > > the location header, but would be interested to know of any gotchas that > > I've just been fortunate enough to miss over the years. > > I do not think that using meta is better than header but header has one > problem ( but in my view it is feature) normally. > for eaxample: > > <?php > session_start(); > > $_SESSION['somevar']="anything"; > header("location:url"); > ?> Shouldn't be a problem if you change it to: <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['somevar']="anything"; session_write_close(); header("location:url"); ?> I generally wrap redirection in a function, that way any shutdown routines can be performed transparently -- and also the URL can be reworked from relative to absolute. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'