Re: simple-ish question but something i never knew

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com> To: "Zareef Ahmed" <consultancy@indiaphp.com> Cc: "Aaron Koning" <aaronkoning@gmail.com>; "PHP-General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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"); > > ?> Yes indeed, but normally people do not know about this. Alternatively we can reverse the script, I mean, we can write the header line as first line of script. Zareef Ahmed > > 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. | > `------------------------------------------------------------' > > ==================================================== PHP Expert Consultancy in Development http://www.indiaphp.com Yahoo! : consultant_php MSN : consultancy@indiaphp.com